Wide eyed gazes fell upon Temple Alumnus Richard Leiby when he took to the podium at this year’s end of the year Journalism awards banquet. This much-anticipated event featured Lieby as the keynote speaker. The former Temple News editor is now currently the Style and Arts Editor for the Washington Post. In addition he also contributes as a staff writer; here is one [...]
BIG NEWS!
Christmas came a little early tonight after I received an email from the Hearst Journalism Foundation stating I placed 5th in this years nationwide journalism features competition! After my 11th place finish last year I was pretty hard on myself and therefore made it a personal goal to finish in the top 10. Check out [...]
MARCH MADNESS
This year both the Temple Men’s and Women’s basketball teams punched their tickets into the big dance. Free viewing parties were held for fans to come and cheer on the teams. Unfortunately the men’s team was upset in the first round against Cornell. However the women’s team ended up winning their first round matchup against JMU. [...]
IT’S AWESOME BABY WITH A CAPITAL A
He’s energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate about what he does. Pretty much Dick Vitale is college basketball’s icing on the cake. I’ve always been a huge Vitale fan which might explain why I’ve got my own Dick Vitale alarm clock that I’ve been waking up to for the past five years. Vitale has been an idol [...]
600 WINS!
The wins keep piling up for Temple Women’s Fencing Coach Nikki Franke. Recently Franke won her 600th match which is a tremendous accomplishment in any sport. Now in her 38th year of coaching Franke has transformed the once non existant fencing program into a program that is nationally recongized. Currently the team is ranked 8th in [...]
DRESS FOR SUCCESS
I decided to cover Temple University’s Dress For Success Fashion Show event this week for Temple Update and my radio news reporting class. The radio piece is below so take a listen! Check back after the weekend to see the video package.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Today was a great day to be a journalism student at Temple University. I woke up and arrived to my Temple Update class to find out guest speaker and legendary ABC WPVI anchor Jim Gardner would be visiting. After my Temple Update class I arrived at my Broadcast Performance class to find out WHYY’s Dave [...]
HOMECOURT ADVANTAGE
Temple University basketball players can use a four letter word to describe the Liacouras Center. I decided to find out what’s so special about the place these players call home.
RAILJAM LIVE SHOT
One of the more exciting events here on campus is the annual Temple Snowboard Club’s Railjam Competion. Last week over 20 TONS of snow were hauled in for the event which took place at the Bell Tower. The same day of the event I had to complete my live shot assignment for my broadcast performance [...]
RADIO RESUME
One of the classes I’m taking this semester is, “Broadcast Performance” and ironically it’s with my journalism professor from last semester, Windsor Johnston. The class is supposed to get everyone comfortable with performing in front of a camera and microphone. One of the recent assignments we had to do was this biography assignment.The idea of [...]
