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Follow my 2025 JMC 406 Blogging Students

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Ralph Hanson

This fall I’m teaching my Blogging & Commentary writing class, a course I’ve taught in one form or another since the winter of 1988 (Hint: Blogging wasn’t part of the title then…)  Here are links to my students’ blogs and … Continue reading →

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Ten Threads Accounts to Follow – 2025 Edition

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Ralph Hanson

This week my JMC 406 Blogging and Commentary students were asked to do one of their first posts by listing 10 Threads accounts they are following and why. You can find my students’ posts using the #JMC406 hashtag. Here’s my … Continue reading →

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Go For Broke – When old editorials become new again

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Ralph Hanson

I’ve been teaching Civil Rights Era Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials in my commentary class since 1988. And it seems crazy to me how some of them keep emerging to the surface from current news events over the years. For example, Ralph … Continue reading →

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Ten Accounts I Follow on Threads

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

This week my JMC 406 Blogging and Commentary students were asked to do one of their first posts by listing 10 Threads accounts they are following and why. You can find my students’ posts using the #JMC406 hashtag. Here’s my … Continue reading →

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Journalism movies and my students

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Every year in my JMC 406 – Commentary and Blogging class I have my students watch a prominent journalism movie. Usually, All The President’s Men would be at the top of my list, but given that several students watched it while in … Continue reading →

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Who are columnists you might want to read?

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

This list of interesting columnists is not just for JMC 406 Commentary and Blogging students. You might find someone you like to read here, too! Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist.  His column written in response to the events of 9/11 struck … Continue reading →

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Great work from my commentary and blogging students

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Ralph Hanson

It’s been a rough time during the second part of this semester for my blogging and commentary students, with all of their classes going online/remote.  Some of them are graduating into an uncertain world; all of them are dealing with … Continue reading →

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Check out my JMC 406 student bloggers

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Ralph Hanson

This spring I’m teaching my commentary and blogging class, and as always, I like to share links to my students’ work here. They will be writing and commenting on a wide range of issues over the course of the semester. … Continue reading →

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“A Church, A School –” An editorial from the Atlanta Constitution, 1958

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

For today’s blog post, I’m reprinting a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial by Ralph McGill, written for the Atlanta Constitution almost exactly 60 years ago. As I was researching the links to go with this, the following article from Poynter popped up. … Continue reading →

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What stands out from this year’s Pulitzer Prizes

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Ralph Hanson

I asked my commentary and blogging students to do a post this week on their reactions to the Pulitzer Prizes announced this week. Here’s what they had to say: Angel Y. – The Gulf of Mexico in the Age of … Continue reading →

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