Mass Communications at Lincoln High School

Photo by International Journalism Festival https://www.flickr.com/photos/journalismfestival/25784892014/in/photolist-reM4Lx-TLoj32-TGKnYb-TyUmzz-TGKogL-TLoiTp-TGKnUy-TGKo3j-TGKoem-TLoiNV-FdUkPV-FdUkNH-FdUkNx-Ght93J-GEeJTY-Ght9dU-TbmEDf-GEeJKm-Ght8FG-GEeK2J-Ght8Vj-TGKnYw-TyUmon-TLoiYz-TGKokU-TGKo6q-TyUmMD-GcYbAM-G4NV6S-G77Spv-G4NTzf-FMRSQY-FMRRFy-Fhwj4G-G77Ryc-FMRRsY-G77SZD-GLdYJ9-GE4DSG-GLe1jd-GLdZWj-GkCsVt-FwbZqx-GpaWj1-GiiU9q-Fw1qrY-GpaWpm By Hadley Steele On Friday, March 8th, Anna Loy, Lola Conopio-Mora, and I all went to a lecture led by Andrew DeVigal at the PDX Media Day. His lecture, titled So You Want to Launch a Podcast, was about exactly what it’s titled. He went in depth about the why-how-what format he uses in his podcasts and how it is effective. We went to his podcast because after are in-class experience with podcasts we wanted to learn more about creating podcasts. We learned a lot from his slideshow, and he gave us the link to refer to it outside of the l...

By Amelia Thorpe           We took a walking field trip through downtown on March 8th with the Mass Communications classes for PDX Media Day. It was located in the White Stag Building near the waterfront, and we got to go to four different sessions to learn about different things all centered around media, and communications. Each lecture was on a different subject and you could learn something about yearbook, reporting, podcasts and much more.          I went to the first three sessions, and I learned lots about reporting, asking questions, and other aspects to being a journalist. In the fourth session, I went on a tour of the White Stag Sign that says "made in Oregon" and has a stag on it. This was probably my favorite session of PDX Media Day because I got to see something I see almost every week from a different perspective- the roof.          While the leader of this tour didn't teach or tell us much...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4m3AJamQYM By Hana Teherani-Ami Brave New Voices is a Slam Poetry Contest which is part of a youth centered pedagogy called "Youth Speaks." Youth Speaks believe that literacy is a need, not a want, and that literacy comes in various forms." They connect the roses and thorns about the 21st century to "poetry, spoken word, youth development and civic engagement." In 2014, during the Brave New Voices competition, in the finals, two high school girls, Belissa Escobedo and Rhiannon McGavin, performed a slam poem about Rape jokes. Both girls go to LA County High School for the Arts, and won 3rd in the world performing with the "Get Lit Player" team of Brave New Voices. They have performed with world famous celebrities, including John Legend, and esteemed activists. I chose this video because slam poetry has recently become a lot more popular, and there is a slam poetry contest coming up at Lincoln. Their R...

Photo by:  On March 8 Ms. Rechner's Mass Communication classes went on a field trip to the University of Oregon White Stag building for Portland Media day. We got to choose different workshops for four different sessions. I went to asking the right questions by Molly Harbarger, sports and portrait photography by Craig Mitchelldyer, taking better photos by Melissa Toledo, and finally my favorite, smartphone journalism with Lisa Loving. Loving taught us the use for smartphone journalism and how quick and convenient it can be. With some stories happening so quickly, the news can be sent to the newsroom or can be shared directly on social media. Lisa Loving has been a journalist her entire life, writing writing community news, investigative series, features, reviews and columns. She has taught writing, reporting and radio to hundreds of journalists and everyday people. Her specialties include, writing, editing, interviewing, teaching, research, training, staff management, public...

By Xander Levine This past Friday at PDX Media Day opened my eyes to the career of journalism. After arriving at the White Stag building just around 9:00, I quickly decided that I wanted to go to the session about “covering sports in the digital age.”After attending several sessions that explored topics such as sports photography, covering sports in the digital age and how to ask good questions, I realized it was going to be a fun day! All the speakers that were giving the presentations were all in different careers. The women who spoke about asking good questions was a teacher, however the sport photography session was taught by a photographer that worked with the Timbers. The other session about covering sports in the digital age was taught by a TV sports broadcaster who works for KOIN 6. I thought it was very cool and genuinely appreciated the fact that so many people took time out of their work day to come teach us new things. It showed that these individuals really do care a...

Eder Campuzano and the Oregonian Hana Teherani-Ami On March 1 our mass communications class went on a field trip to the Oregonian, where we were led on a tour by one of the reporters, Eder Campuzano. Eder Campuzano is the education reporter for the Oregonian. Before becoming the education reporter, he was part of the trending team and specialized in covering stories about protests after protests after protests. His goal when becoming the education reporter was to “elevate the voices of students.” Last year, he covered protests about youth against violence and did some interesting pieces about Fortnite and parks that students are suddenly flocking to. His other goal was to incorporate his Spanish into his reporting because of the students and parents who have been historically underrepresented by media in Portland. Eder Campuzanos interest in journalism began in high school when he first started working at the newspaper. After graduating high school in 2005, he attended The Oregon...

Balda_Baldinette_II.jpg  ‎ (234 × 171 pixels, file size: 15 KB, MIME type:  image/jpeg )   Creative Commons  license. By Jade Hall PDX media day initially wasn't something I was very enthusiastic about. It was the idea of having to walk in the cold and also missing a valuable day at school that made me a little uneasy. However upon arrival I noticed how involved all the student journalists were and I even ran into a couple of my friends that go to a different high school. The first session I attended was about asking good questions. I have to say that it was probably the most beneficial to my growth as a student journalists. The presenter was extremely interesting and and her humor helped keep the audience engaged. My next few sessions were solely focused on photography, I was surprised at how interested I became in sports photography,. The presenter was Craig Mitchelldyer a freelance photographer in Oregon. He touched on skills and techniques for...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/The_Oregonian_presses_1905.jpeg/800px-The_Oregonian_presses_1905.jpeg The old printing presses of the Oregonian By: Anna Whitworth On a crisp morning in March we walked down to the Oregonian on First Avenue in Portland Oregon. We were greeted with a warm welcome in the lobby and led upstairs to the Newsroom by reporter Eder Campuzano. When we walked in there were a sprinkle of reporters here and there but for the most part it wasn’t what I expected as a bustling newsroom. Sitting or standing at desks we saw the few reporters who were in the office, thinking and drafting new stories for our local paper. Our thoughtful and insightful tour was led by education reporter Eder Campuzano. His job is to make sure we, as students have a voice in issues that we care about. Campuzano, who began his reporting career in high school in McMinnville, also wants to help explain things young people do to older people. He’ll act as t...

Photo credit: Steve Morgan https://commons.wikimedia.org By Kiley Hearst The Mass Communications class took a walking field trip to the Oregonian on March 1. There, we were given a tour of the office by reporter Eder Campuzano. Several other reporters pitched in to describe their jobs and their backgrounds. According to the article “ Portland, meet your new education reporter”, Campuzano recently became the new education reporter for the Oregonian. Previously, he worked for the Oregonian as a part of their trending team. Campuzano was on his high school paper, The Bruin, at McMinnville High School. He also spent six months at The Grants Pass Daily Courier as the county government reporter. I learned about the process behind producing a paper, especially one as large as the Oregonian. Very few desks were filled due to the early hour and the number of reporters out and about reporting on a variety of topics. I also learned about the time it takes to write an article, the...

Photo courtesy of Creative Commons By Wren Stuart In the first week of March, special guest Crystal Ligori came in to teach the mass communications class about the fundamentals of podcasting. With her extensive knowledge of podcasts and how to create them, she helped us create our very own. Ligori introduced the class to a program (Adobe Audition) on our computers that allowed us to piece together audio and music for our podcasts. We started with a topic and conducted two separate interviews while simultaneously recording them. We then uploaded the audio to a computer and recorded an intro and outro for the podcasts. After going through this process, we had a professional sounding podcast. Crystal Ligori works for the news program "All things considered" and produces the weekly radio program "Literary Arts: The Archive Project". Before she came to Portland, Ligori worked for a modern music station (KZZU) in Spokane, Washington. She attended the University ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Canon_EOS_300D_%281%29.jpg By: Rowan Budlong  PDX Media day, on March 8th, provided me with many opportunities to learn about media and journalism. I decided to attend a presentation by Craig Mitchelldyer called Sports and Portrait Photography. The whole event took place in the White Stag Building on the waterfront in downtown Portland. PDX Media Day is put on for student journalists to learn about media and journalism techniques. A series of lectures, presentations, and visuals are put together to educate students. Mitchelldyer is a freelance photographer who works closely with the Portland Timbers. His other work includes Adidas, Nike, Intel, law firms, financial companies, weddings and, special features for magazines. After photographing in Portland for 20 years, Mitchelldyer has had features in “National and international publications including the USA Today, Getty Images, Reuters, Associated Press, the New York Ti...

The Oregonian logo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Joshua Weinrobe On March 1st my classmates and I took a walking field trip to the Oregonian to meet with reporter Eder Campuzano, and to learn more about what it means to be a newspaper in today’s day and age. We got to hear about many of the reporters who work at the Oregonian, while also hearing some of the opinions from some of these reporters. Eder Campuzano is a education reporter for the Oregonian. Originally on the Oregonians Trending team where he focused on stories that were trending at that time. He is an avid tweeter about many of the things that go on in Oregon's educational system, always breaking news about who is a new principal at a certain school, or other related events. I enjoyed getting to hear about some of the reporters' paths to working for a newspaper like the Oregonian. I also enjoyed hearing different facts from Eder Campuzano about what the reporters at the Oregonian do. It is good to hear ...

Photo by: Oleg Dunbyna courtesy of Wikimedia Commons By Hailey Dunst On March 8, I attended PDX Media Day at the University of Oregon where I participated in many lectures to further develop my knowledge of the world of media. My personal favorite was the athletic photography talk as it covered many points important in capturing a good play, touchdown, or tackle. The talk was led by Craig Mitchelldyer, a photographer featured in numerous publications. As stated on his website, Mitchelldyer Photography “[Mitchelldyer’s] clients include the Portland Timbers MLS team, Adidas, Nike, Intel, law firms, financial companies, and hundreds of magazines you may have never heard of.” It also states that he has been photographing in Portland for over 20 years and doesn’t plan on ending his career soon. He talked about how he always looks for the right angle to capture the perfect emotion, light, and most importantly background. Mitchelldyer told us how and when to use ...

Picture by: Visitor7 By: Claire Yoo A group of students from Lincoln’s Mass Communications class went to the annual PDX Media Day on March 8, 2019. This informational event held for high school journalists all over Portland was located in the White Stag Building where the widely known Portland Oregon sign is on the roof. We went around the building visiting sessions where we learned about different aspects of being part of the media. Each session leader prepared a 50 minute speech or presentation about their job, and gave knowledgeable answers to students and teachers’ questions creating an interactive environment. The sessions I went to were “Finding Your Inner Superhero” by Tim Henderson and Hanna Jones, “So You Want to Launch a Podcast” by Andrew DeVigal, “Being a Foodie on Instagram” by Enton Lok, and “See the ‘White Stag’” led by John Roper. The first three sessions were about the different jobs that people can have being part of the media, and they had additional helpfu...

By Sydney Ward         On March 8th, many Mass Communications, Advanced Mass Communications and Yearbook students took a trip to the White Stag building for Portland Media Day. Journalists from many different papers and speakers with lots of different experiences came to talk to us about various journalism-related topics. This day was organized so that students like us could gain some knowledge on different career opportunities and experiences in the journalism field.         One of my favorite sessions I attended was about Podcasting and it was run by Andrew DeVigal. DeVigal is a professor at University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communications. Before teaching, he was the Multimedia Editor at the New York Times. Currently, he runs the Listeners Podcast with students at the school.         I learned lots of techniques at this session. Firstly, DeVigal focused about creating a topic for a podcast. He suggeste...

Source: https://www.orangeglenhigh.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=121973&type=u&pREC_ID=303364 By Cate Bikales At PDX Media Day on Friday, March 8th, I visited many different workshops. Each one taught me a variety of things, including how to conduct interviews, take amazing photos and write sports articles. One that stood out to me was the third session I visited. I attended the workshop to improve my interview skills, as this is not one of my strong suits in the field, and I feel that it really helped me understand how to deal with different people. This session was called Million Dollar Questions, and it was taught by Jessica Young. Young lives in Escondido, California and has been teaching at Orange Glen High School for ten years. She teaches yearbook, journalism and photography, coaches volleyball, and coordinates California State University teachers in training. She is best known in the field of journalism, where she has been recognized as a Master Journalism Ed...

By Malcolm Cole II           In early March for a couple of days, producer and newscaster Crystal Ligori came in to our journalism class to teach us about podcasting and how to use multiple sources to help with it. When she came in, she introduced us to an application called Adobe Audition. This app was major help into assisting us into making our very first podcast with our groups. She has taught us on how to use voice and sound editing in the app to make the podcast not only sound less choppy, but to make it sound more real and to make it sound less edited. As she was here, she taught us more on how to create interviews with people and how to convince others to come to do an interview with us. She also gave us real microphones with headsets to set up our own interviews to make with classmates.          Crystal Ligori is the newscaster for "All Things Considered" and is the producer for the radio program "Literary Arts: The Archive...

 By Mable Crawford Picture: by M. Rechner       Crystal Ligori came in to our class to teach us how to make a podcast. We recorded, edited, added music, and put together podcasts all within two class periods. We learned how to edit out stuttering, and make the music quieter when we were talking. Ligori was always ready to help explain things to us and go into more details if needed.        Ligori has been a narrator for many different podcasts and commercials.  She produces the weekly radio program "Literary Arts: The Archive Project". Ligori has also done a couple of commercials for New Seasons that you may have heard on your way to work.        I learned so much from Ligori. I had never recorded myself with real equipment until she came in and showed us how. She also showed us how to edit our podcasts using Adobe Audition, which I had never even heard of before. I learned a ton and I am so glad that she was ...

Photo by Che (CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic) By Kyler Wang Last Friday, the mass communications class went to PDX Media Day at the White Stag building. We learned about the journalism process, from taking pictures to interviewing. My favorite session was “10 Guidelines for Good Photography.” The lecture was from Jessica Young, a journalism adviser at Orange Glen High School. A former editor- in- chief of the Umpqua at PHS and photography editor for the Orange R, she was able to talk about her personal experiences. I appreciated her enthusiasm and the hard work she put into the slideshow. Every guideline was well explained and included examples. The guidelines she gave didn’t seem random, because she clearly explained the reasoning behind a certain type of shot. 

Photo by: M. Rechner By Gabby Shaffer Therese Bottomly is the editor of the recognized paper, the Oregonian. On Thursday, March 7, she hosted a “Cards Talk,” a question and answer about a Lincoln Alumni at Lincoln. She was accompanied by current editor of the Cardinal Times, Sagarika Ramachandran. The two female editors spoke of hardships and underrepresentation of women in the newsroom and how it has changed overtime. This talk was very important for members of the community to understand what her job is like and what she does. Bottomly graduated from the University of Oregon in 1983 after graduating from Lincoln. She joined the Oregonian as an intern quickly after she graduated from college and has been there ever since. In 1998 she started in a senior leadership role and became editor in fall of 2018. She has also been a Pulitzer Prize juror twice. With all of these very impressive accomplishments at age 52, we can all look up to Bottomly as a proud Lincoln Cardinal. I learned a...

Photo by: M. Rechner By Annika Wang An alumni of University of Montana, earning a degree in Broadcast Journalism, while winning both the Society of Professional Journalists award and Hearst Journalism award, Crystal Ligori is an accomplished producer and newscasters for OPB. Aside from being a producer and newscaster, she is also a freelance voice over artist. We were fortunate enough to have her as a guest speaker and journalist. With her time with us, we were able to learn more about what her daily life looks like, and how to create podcasts. From day to day, she is able to go to work at around ten in the morning and get back home at around seven at night. This allows her to have time to sleep in, and still do what she loves. After some background about her job, we were able to start our podcast the next class. My group decided to do ours about food, and what Lincoln student’s opinions are. Once we had written our intro, summary, and some interview questions, she helped w...

Photo by: Mary Rechner Bella Stutz-Lazzara March 13, 2019 Last  Friday  at Media Day I attended a  workshop   called  “So You Want to Launch a Podcast. ” I  went to this workshop because in class we had recently started making a podcast.  This  workshop  was  presented  by Andrew  DeVigal .  He  gave  me and many other tips on how to launch a  podcast  or  make  your  podcast  better.  He told us what equipment was best to use if you are using an at-home studio.   Andrew  DeVigal   worked  as the multimedia editor at The New York Times.  And before  he   worked  at The New York Times  he   was  a  professor  at San Francisco State University.   He  is  now  the  Chair  in Journalism Innovation And Civic Engagement at the University of Oregon  SOJC-Portland . ...

Photo by Sergey Galyonkin courtesy of CC by-SA 2.0 By Kyler Wang “Fortnite Dance Reenactments (FAIL)” is a stunningly accurate reenactment of dance moves from the popular game Fortnite. The video begins with a well-rehearsed introduction from Youtube stars Cate Bikales and Zoe Tomlinson. In their usual style, they take turns speaking but speak in unison for emphasis. Viewers are surprised when guest dancers Annika Grover and Presley Girard jump into the scene from below the view of the camera. The four dancers work well together, their perfectly timed movements being clearly well-rehearsed. Instead of going with normal, boring transitions, the transitions keep viewers engaged. During one transition, Tomlinson and Bikales jump out of a recycling bin, surprising viewers.

Picture: In the Public Domain By Mable Crawford How many times have you looked down only to realize with dread that you have started your period? In this video women read other people’s period horror stories. Their reactions are funny and the stories are relatable, making the video very good to watch.   While watching this video I could almost feel the disappointment and alarm of these victims of menstruation. “Women React to Period Horror stories” is funny and dismal all at the same time. You come for the horror stories and stay for the comical reactions of the women that read them. The poor "victims" of these stories are relatable and their stories are spot on. You can totally imagine this happening to you. After listening to these stories, I now know to keep your friends close, and to not wear white while on your period.

Image courtesy of Google Maps By Alli Caldwell Walking through the revolving door at the Oregonian taking notes as I go. Hearing stories from reporter Eder Campuzano who showed us the most important places inside the Oregonian building that is located in Southwest Portland. As we meet Eder Campuzano at the door, he introduces himself as the Oregonians education reporter, mainly working with Portland Public Schools. Eder takes us up to the writers' work space. Getting off the elevator and first thing that catches my eye is the Pulitzer Prize in the glass case-- earned for a most interesting and jaw dropping story-- the story of sending a potato all around the world and its final destination in Tokyo as a french fry. As Eder led us into the office, my expectations were lots of people and everyone dressed in the typical office outfit. I was surprised seeing that it is not the case at the Oregonian. Writers were sitting back with no shoes on wearing just casual clothes....

Photo by: Ben P courtesy of Creative Commons By: Xander Levine A group of extreme adventure seekers set up a slip and slide contraption on the side of a Utah cliff. The group puts parachutes on their backs, puts some water on the slide and then they quickly run and jump onto the slide and start sliding down. Within a few seconds, they are off the slide falling in mid-air off the cliff. They have only seconds to pull the chute or they will die. All of them were successful in the jump and they preformed the stunt multiple times. I enjoy this video because it shows a crazy idea coming to life that you don't see every day. I enjoyed it because it was cool to see what is possible when you try something that no one has ever done and it turns out to be successful. The video was in fact sponsored however this was not the reason for the stunt, this video creator is known to do similar stunts like this in the past. Ford was the sponsor and the only notable secti...

Photo by Eric courtesy of the public domain By Carissa Bohen This video is set up with five adult women who are on the Autism spectrum. The video contains different clips of each woman talking about what it’s like for her to be on the spectrum. They cover multiple topics such as emotions, relationships, stereotypes, etc. Each woman wants to defy the misconceptions made about women with autism. What I like about this video is that these women are getting a platform to freely express their views and perspectives on the topic. You don’t hear many personal perspectives of women on the spectrum, and I think it’s really cool that this channel is letting them use their voice and be able to broadcast it to millions of people. This video is really informative and it opened my mind to things I’ve never taken into perspective before.    ...

Photo by Preslee McCarthy By Preslee McCarthy In the video by Eva Leitia, she goes into detail about where she purchases her ‘dramatic’ lashes for a more affordable price. Of course, you pay for what you get seeing as $2 lashes couldn’t be that great, but Leitia seems to squash that by showing the camera exactly what the false eyelashes look being worn, how they feel, and what looks she does with the already bought lashes. I like the idea of finding good fake lashes for very inexpensive price that are good quality because people can spend as much as $30 or more on many brands that specialize or only carry fake lashes. Going to the website where the fake lashes were purchased, AliExpress, I clicked on a pair that was suggested by Leitia and one of the first thing I noticed were how many reviews and more importantly, how good they were. With over one-thousand reviews ninety-two percent of the reviews were five stars.         ...

By: Devyn McMillen One of the hardest tasks of being a journalist can be finding, maintaining and keeping sources, but with the help of John Schrag’s “Can We Talk?” session at PDX Media Day, this task can be extraordinarily more simple. John Schrag is the executive editor of Pamplin Media Group and is an award-winning editor. Due to his personal experience as a journalist, he described what makes a good journalist, how to find the right sources to interview, how to get people to talk, and more. One of the key points that Schrag expressed during his interview was when finding someone to interview, find people who know more than you and who are connected to more sources. In journalism, it is very important to constantly be finding out new information and links from your sources, otherwise, the interviewee will not lead anywhere. Even if the interviewee doesn't have the exact information you need, the important thing is that they will lead you to the information you need. Schrag a...

By Kiley Hearst Wide open fields and gentle rolling hills. The smell of a salty breeze coming off of the ocean. Children laughing and playing at school. This was the life of 5 year-old CC Cobb while she lived in Dublin. Cobb was only 5 years old when she lived in Ireland but it’s an experience that has permanently impacted her life. Even at such a young age, Cobb still clearly remembers her time in there. She remembers playing with her friends at their school which had a farm-like feel. Cobb’s family on her mother’s side lives in Ireland, and she recalls how nice it was to see them whenever she wanted. “Living abroad really opens your mind,” Cobb says. One of the biggest lessons she learned was that not everything revolves around the United States. Living abroad also helped her see the United States’ strengths. “In general a lot of people in Ireland are less accepting,” says Cobb. She calls the United States “more of a melting pot” of people, and that generally there is...