TruthBeTold.news

TruthBeTold.news

Publication No. 26 Creative Work/Special Project TruthBeTold.news Roles Founder of fact-checking site TruthBeTold.news Principal investigator on $35,000 Challenge Grant for Innovation in Journalism Education Leader/member of teaching team on accountability journalism Synopsis TruthBeTold.news (formerly called HU Insight) is a non-profit, non-partisan website and digital network, run and edited from Howard University’s Department of Media, Journalism and Film in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications. This fact-checking siteuses journalistic skills and crowdsourced information to play a leading role in examining claims about the black community in public debate, including myths, stereotypes and false statements. It also serves as a fun but, serious learning environment for students to teach them advanced reporting tools in a way that is engaging and allows them to use the social media skills they already possess. APT Criteria My management, research and development of TruthBeTold.news meets criteria No. 8 set forth on page 9 in Appendix A of Recommendation 305-2015 as an Exemplary Creative/Professional Activity and No. 10 on page 11 under High Creative/Professional Activity: Criteria No. 8. Development or application of technology for communication enterprises or for the educational community, including new and existing websites; regularly maintained and nationally recognized web logs (blogs) and video logs (vlogs) Criteria No. 10. Development and management of meritorious special projects of an academic or professional nature that exceed normal expectations of teaching and/or instruction and supervision of co-curricular programs, and that achieve recognition on local, regional, national or international level and/or other targeted area deemed of significance. The candidate must also prepare a detailed report and critique of the activity.  Impact Long before the fury over fake news and alternative facts,...
Howard University News Service

Howard University News Service

Publication No. 27 Creative Work/Special Project  Title: Howard University News Service (HUNS) HUNewsService.com (under re-construction) and http://howarduniversityelectionproject.com Synoposis HUNewsService.com reports on education, health, business, government and politics, religion, arts and entertainment, sports and other topics. It doubles as a destination site and a news service, disseminating student content nationally. Our media partners value our coverage and regularly publish news service content on their websites and in their newspapers. They also welcome our students’ drive and timeliness, often commissioning exclusive articles from our students. News service content has been used by the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, CNN iReport, TheRoot.com, BlackAmericaWeb.com, the Trice-Edney News Wire, Human Nature magazine, Trentonian.com and many of the 200 member publications and websites of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, including the Baltimore and Washington Afro-American, the Washington Informer, the Los Angeles Sentinel and the Chicago Defender. Additionally, we distribute content for other campus media, such as NewsVision, TruthBeTold.news and 101Magazine.net (both websites that I also established). We also share HUNS content with these sites as well as The Hilltop to minimize duplication of effort. APT Criteria My management, research and development of HUNewsService.com meets criteria No. 8 set forth on page 9 in Appendix A of Recommendation 305-2015 as an Exemplary Creative/Professional Activity and No. 10 on page 11 under High Creative/Professional Activity: Criteria No. 8. Development or application of technology for communication enterprises or for the educational community, including new and existing websites; regularly maintained and nationally recognized web logs (blogs) and video logs (vlogs) Criteria No. 10. Development and management of meritorious special projects of an academic or professional nature that exceed normal expectations of teaching and/or instruction...
Special Project: 101 Magazine

Special Project: 101 Magazine

Publication No. 28 Creative Works: Special Project Title: 101 Magazine and 101Magazine.net Principal Investigator, Founder and Adviser: Lamb, Yanick Rice Published by Howard University  APT Criteria My management, research and development of 101 Magazine meets criteria No. 8 set forth on page 9 in Appendix A of Recommendation 305-2015 as an Exemplary Creative/Professional Activity and No. 10 on page 11 under High Creative/Professional Activity: Criteria No. 8. Development or application of technology for communication enterprises or for the educational community, including new and existing websites; regularly maintained and nationally recognized web logs (blogs) and video logs (vlogs) Criteria No. 10. Development and management of meritorious special projects of an academic or professional nature that exceed normal expectations of teaching and/or instruction and supervision of co-curricular programs, and that achieve recognition on local, regional, national or international level and/or other targeted area deemed of significance. The candidate must also prepare a detailed report and critique of the activity.  Synopsis 101 is a general-interest magazine that knows how to have fun, when to be serious and what it takes to hold the attention of 18 to 29-year-old students who are busy chasing their dreams. 101 has an urban sensibility with a global outlook. Although based in the United States, 101 strives to offer a world view with a mix of domestic and international topics. It includes news, features, analysis, commentary, service and trend pieces; profiles; and gazettes. 101 serves a diverse group of men and women who want to stay in the know about issues that affect their lives. They are intelligent, progressive and upwardly mobile. They want more than the standard fare being offered in...
Teaching Techniques and Innovation

Teaching Techniques and Innovation

AP Style Games Professor Ingrid Sturgis and I have implemented AP Style Games in our editing classes. This activity has been effective in engaging students and helping them teach each other the finer points of Associated Press style. The students work in pairs and choose a category from a box, such as military titles, numbers, geography, weather, business, sports or punctuation. Each pair can create or adapt a game in a week or two. The rest of the class has to play the game. Students have created board games, competitions that require movement in the classroom or hallway, scavenger hunts and creative Q&As. They’ve also adapted Tic Tac Toe, Red Rover, Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Sturgis and I typically offer prizes or badges to the most creative games, but the students bring incentives to, ranging from candy to DSW shoe discounts. Afterwards, students evaluate the effectiveness of each game and what they learned on a short survey based on the Likert scale.   MILITARY PRECISION: Student answer questions about the armed forces during AP Style Games. Click to see video clip.   Using Mickey to Understand Mass Media During the fall semester in 2012, I invited Annette Gibbs, public relations manager at Walt Disney World, to speak to my Writing for the Media class while she was in town on business. I met Annette when she was a reporter/anchor at Black Entertainment Television. She has also worked at WJLA TV and Maryland Public Television. She was effective in discussing news from the vantage point of a journalist versus that of a public relations professional....
Teaching

Teaching

Teaching Teaching In the midst of this media revolution, Yanick Rice Lamb has helped to keep the curriculum current so that students in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film can successfully compete with others applying for graduate school or employment as well as develop successful businesses, films and other enterprises. See more ... Research/Creative Work Yanick Rice Lamb discusses digital magazines at AEJMC’s Southeast Colloquium at Virginia Tech. She later co-authored a chapter with Kendra Desrosiers, a Howard and MIT graduate who is now at Google. “The Seven Sisters and Their Siblings Go Digital: An Analysis of Women’s Magazine Content on Websites, iPads and Cell Phones” is featured in the book Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice. See more ... Service Yanick Rice Lamb has received accolades for her hard work, dedication and willingness to serve. Her involvement in the School of Communications has increased each year. She does so much more that goes undocumented on campus, in the community and for media organizations. Here, she returns for Career Day at Ghoulson Middle School in Prince Georges County, Maryland. See more ... National Recognition The Executive Leadership Council invited Yanick Rice Lamb to return for its main event in Minneapolis after a successful Fireside Chat the previous year in Chicago between Yanick and Julianne Malveaux, then president of Bennett College. Yanick leads a lively forum on black women and power with Ebony executives Linda Johnson Rice and Desiree Rogers at the Women’s Leadership Summit. Professional Development Committed to enhancing her skills and knowledge base, Yanick Rice Lamb regular participates in webinars, workshops and conferences such as the American Magazine Conference (left). Her courses and research benefit as she learns about best practices and interacts...