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Brian J. Steffen

Brian J. Steffen

Making Sense of Media and Higher Education since 1989.

Category: Media Education

Speaking of Simpson Podcast 9: Career Development

Just uploaded at SoundCloud: Speaking of Simpson podcast No. 9: Career Development. Getting the job — that’s what more college … More

Hugo Black Died 46 Years Ago. Now He’s Having a Moment Thanks to ‘The Post’

Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Post’ opens nationwide on Friday. Every American should see it. Many won’t, and for political reasons. Conservatives … More

The Right Says It’s Fighting For Campus Free Speech. It Wants No Such Thing.

The biggest First Amendment story of 2017 may well have been the battles over freedom of speech on college campuses. … More

Regaining Public Trust in Media in the Age of Trump

The other course I’m teaching this spring is Media Law & Ethics, which we’ve hashtagged as #MediaLawEthics for Twitter purposes. … More

Welcome to #MobileSocial in 2018

Christmas is in the rear-view mirror, New Year is around the corner, and the new Spring 2018 term is about … More

Getting Started With Twitter at Simpson College

As the students in my upcoming Simpson Colloquium course — Prelude to a Farce: American Journalism and Democracy — are … More

Where’s the Drive to Perform?

I’ve spent much of the past week connecting the literature I’ve been reading with the experiences I’ve been having in … More

Job Search, Journalism Education, Student Performance

Turning Twitter into a Journalistic Tool

Now that, as many of us who teach journalism have noted, Twitter is slowly gaining acceptance as a media tool … More

Education, Journalism, Simpson College, Twitter

The Must-Have Tools for Studying Multimedia Journalism

Let’s start with a stipulation: We don’t live in a perfect world. In that perfect world, students would be able … More

Adobe, Android, Apple, Dell, Flip, HP, iPad, iPhone, Multimedia

The Clueless Generation

The first day of spring term at Simpson never seems as exciting as the first day of classes in August — … More

current events, Jared Lee Loughner, news, undergraduates

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  • Duck Dynasty meets the Holocaust meets the #insurrection. #ImpeachandRemoveTrumpNow buzzfeednews.com/article/amberj… 5 days ago
  • The @GOP has governed on a platform of political and cultural division for at least 20 years, but today their talki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • Tom McClintock’s mask says, "This mask is as useless as our governor.” His lips say his party is useless as a respo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 days ago
  • C’mon, @tommcclintock, you can’t honestly say that all #FakePresident engaged in was ‘intemperate speech.’ #ImpeachAndRemoveTrumpNow 5 days ago
  • Yes, thinking people do. twitter.com/nytimes/status… 5 days ago
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