You must totally think Room 243 has died. No, don’t worry. I assure you it hasn’t. We are simply shuffling things around here at the end of the year and make lots of changes, to staff, to the office and to our online product. We are printing one last print edition – a summer edition [...]
The Temple News got some more love from the popular blog Innovation in College Media here yesterday. I’ll happily post 7 sites that I think are doing good things online without ranking them. Here ya go: Connect2Mason InsideVandy SFSU Xpress UNC Daily Tar Heel Temple News Nevada Sagebrush Kent State NewsNet
In a continued pursuit of finding all the great people that came out of The Temple News, the word has come in that a Neal Ungerleider, Class of 2005 and former Opinion Editor, is one of our own. He’s written for Slate and Wired, in addition to a slew of popular blogs, including Media Bistro, [...]
Back in January, staffers of The Temple News were greeted with a big surprise, a drop-in from Detroit Free-Press Pistons beat writer Chris Silva, Class of 2005 and former Sports Editor. Well, more news on Silva. He is quickly becoming a cornerstone of Motor City basketball coverage. Today, he has a special on ESPN.com. See [...]
This is why photographers need cutlines. Sloppy student journalists. This photographer is undated, without a cutline and even without the name of the photographer. It is, undoubtedly, Geasy Field, at 15th and Diamond, or so I think. Those spot lights, late nights, friends, delusions of being able to play football. Anyone have any intramural memories? [...]
Photographer Jen DePeppe took this man on the street for The Temple News in the 1990s, though it remains undated. This Muti Sufi, then a junior international business manager, was asked “Do you think life exists on other planets or galaxies and what do you think it’s like?” He responded thusly: It probably does exists, [...]
When The Temple News profiled Daryl Hall and John Oates, the former Temple students who became pop rock legends Hall & Oates, we mentioned Daryl Hall had been jamming with younger musicians and podcasting the experience from his upstate New York pad. One launched last month with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes made its [...]
Quenching your thirst for photographs from The Temple News archives, here we are, an undated photograph that was left unorganized in a pile in the back of our morgue. We do know it was a Tuesday afternoon, though. Photograph by Pete Bannan for The Temple News. Anyone know when he graduated or what he’s doing [...]
Check out what Jim Brady, executive editor of WashingtonPost.com, has to say about a top paper in the country catching a younger audience with Facebook and new media. He spoke with Beet.TV on the subject, see it below [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpWWrFA7Nfw 350 292] Shout out to Joby Warrick, Class of 1982 and former sports writer. The Pulitzer [...]
Just as one former staffer from The Temple News is leaving Philadelphia Weekly (Kia Gregory, Class of 2003 and former Opinion Editor, is off to the Inquirer this week), another of our own is getting what I think is her first cover story since joining the staff. Erica Palan, Class of 2007 and former Opinion [...]
