WNBC Web Editor Coralie Carlson told Prof. Sissel McCarthy’s news video students to boost their engagement on social media during her guest lecture last week. She said posting on Facebook is a must given its 2.2 billion users worldwide. “It’s the big gorilla in the room,” said Carlson, adding that YouTube is a close second. Twitter has 335 million users, but since journalists use this platform to break news and promote their stories, she thinks students should also be active there and posting three times a day.
Other top takeaways from her talk include:
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Overseas reporting by Hunter College media studies student Kadia Goba has resulted in publication with the award-winning Pacific Standard. Goba traveled to Sierra Leone last summer on a Hunter College international reporting fellowship, thanks to the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She covered environmental challenges related to a deadly 2017 mudslide that killed more than 1,000 people.

Her resulting story, published on Pacific Standard’s web site on Oct. 12, focused on a new initiative to close the gender cap in the workplace while helping a rebuilding project. A version of the story was also published on the Pulitzer Center web site, and received a mention in the widely distributed newsletter of Global Health Now of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The students of Journalism’s Neighborhood News (MEDPL 377) and Prof. Pam Frederick  launched a news site for the college the Hunter Athenian. The first issue included coverage of the nascent Hunter Theater Project’s hit production, plans for the cafeteria and Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s honorary degree. Got story ideas? Contact staff: hunterathenian68@gmail.com