{"id":1720,"date":"2006-12-01T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2006-12-01T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:22:27","slug":"dean-jean-folkerts-on-wchl-promoting-bloggig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/dean-jean-folkerts-on-wchl-promoting-bloggig\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Jean (Folkerts) on WCHL promoting blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new J-School Dean, Jean Folkerts, is featured on WCHL 1360 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wchl1360.com\/details.html?id=2366\">a story that announces a new blogging position in the School<\/a> (I am on the faculty of the UNC J-School):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Academics at the UNC Journalism School will take a leap into the digital age with the addition of a teaching position centered on blogging and online news.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dean Jean Folkerts says the job listing signals how the mass media have changed in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>The creation of the online news position is among the first significant moves Folkerts has made as the journalism school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new dean.<\/p>\n<p>She says she wants the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s graduates to be able to cross over platforms of old and new media, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not straying from the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s core principles.<\/p>\n<p>Folkerts says creative production will be part of the professor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s duties, which could mean maintaining a blog or generating multimedia presentations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/jobopportunities\/index.html\"><br \/>\nThe job description for our &#8221; Outstanding Scholar in News\/Online Journalism&#8221; is here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new J-School Dean, Jean Folkerts, is featured on WCHL 1360 in a story that announces a new blogging position in the School (I am on the faculty of the UNC J-School): Academics at the UNC Journalism School will take a leap into the digital age with the addition of a teaching position centered on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}