I focus much of my attention on sports. But I root for few teams. I am a sports writer. I teach sports media. And amid the challenges of learning box scores and the rules of hockey and wrestling, there is a little thing called sports media ethics that are getting tougher and tougher to teach….
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(This column first appeared in the March 2018 newsletter of the AEJMC Media Ethics Division.) On the first day of Ohio State’s spring break, third-year journalism major Zach Varda put on a dress shirt and blazer, tucked his recorder and laptop into a messenger bag, and headed off to the Franklin County Court of Common…
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Note: This post was originally published Oct 10, 2016. Seemed like it might be worth reposting now. #MeToo I was lucky last week to join a “Rock the Vote” team for a panel aimed at helping millennial women understand their importance to the 2016 election. Our focus was non-partisan, but I’m sure you can guess the leanings of two liberal…
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Journalism students at Ohio State University are launching a new podcast, “Student Slant,” to explore issues significant to their generation. Framed around the journalism classes of Prof. Nicole Kraft, topics include the First Amendment, media law and ethics, news concepts and creation, sports and whatever other topics inspire the next generation of journalists. Watch for episode one…
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Interactive Book No. 2 hit the shelves today in the form of “Writing Like Rabbits: A guide to creating and selling magazine articles.” I am especially exited about this book, which comes 10 years to the semester since I first started teaching magazine writing at Ohio State, and I finally have the textbook I feel…
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Apple has launched its first Faculty Speaker Series and, believe it or not, the featured faculty member is me. We spent two days filming in New York and followed up with closeups in New York, and now you can view all of that work on iTunes. Love to hear what you think!
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After seven weeks of preparation and three days at Apple’s main headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., my first iTunes U course, Media Law & Ethics, went live yesterday. It will surely be the first of many. Hope you will check it out, and read about our incredible experience at Apple in this blog post on Kraft…
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Story assignments can be a challenge. After all, you are writing someone else’s vision of an article, and that can go well, or require staggering rewrites. But sometimes you luck into stories that are gifts from the literary gods, as they introduce you to characters and scenarios barely even imagined. And the education you receive…
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I have been writing like a wild person this summer–and it’s been awesome. I didn’t really realize how many articles I had been writing until I posted the links on my Story Archives page, and saw I’m working on better than a piece a month for the Columbus’ best magazines. And the people I have…
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Semesters have started, and so far so good. To be honest, my magazine class is no that different from my class under quarters. Of course, our shortened summer and the fact I am devoting hours each week to restructuring all my classes to 50 minutes per day, four days a week are keeping things hopping,…
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