MicroMemphis featured as "Bright Spot" on WREG-TV
The "Bright Spot" segment on WREG-TV regularly showcases something good happening in Memphis. During this week, it was the work of MicroMemphis. Student-journalists Jessie Wilks and Mye Griffin and journalism prof. Dr. Lurene Kelley are interviewed in this story about reporting in Cooper-Young.
Aired May 5, 2011
Aired May 5, 2011
MicroMemphis on WREG Live@9 show
See our student-journalists Nielsen Ferry and Brennan Somers, plus journalism prof Dr. Lurene Kelley as they discuss MicroMemphis with WREG anchor Alex Coleman on the Live @ 9 morning news show broadcast from the Peabody Place in Downtown Memphis. February 8, 2011
MicroMemphis in the Commercial Appeal
MicroMemphis in the Memphis Business Journal
Brief from March 18, 2011 MBJ:
MicroMemphis teaching students about neighborhood coverage
The University of Memphis is teaching the next generation of journalists by focusing on news coverage one neighborhood at a time.
The school created MicroMemphis, a hyper-local news hub that reports small stories that might not make the newspaper or television news. More hard news stories will eventually be added to the site.
“The idea is for our students to get a feel for what’s interesting about a neighborhood and create multimedia stories about it,” Lurene Cachola Kelley, assistant professor at the University of Memphis Department of Journalism, says.
The site also works as an aggregator, collecting stories already reported by the local media to get a feel for the neighborhood they’re covering.
The school started the program with Cooper-Young, but plans to have senior-level students cover a new neighborhood each year.
“I knew there would be a great deal going on (in Cooper-Young) that would be easy for our students to find and report,” Kelley says. “It’s about getting to know faces, building relationships and understanding the community.”
MicroMemphis teaching students about neighborhood coverage
The University of Memphis is teaching the next generation of journalists by focusing on news coverage one neighborhood at a time.
The school created MicroMemphis, a hyper-local news hub that reports small stories that might not make the newspaper or television news. More hard news stories will eventually be added to the site.
“The idea is for our students to get a feel for what’s interesting about a neighborhood and create multimedia stories about it,” Lurene Cachola Kelley, assistant professor at the University of Memphis Department of Journalism, says.
The site also works as an aggregator, collecting stories already reported by the local media to get a feel for the neighborhood they’re covering.
The school started the program with Cooper-Young, but plans to have senior-level students cover a new neighborhood each year.
“I knew there would be a great deal going on (in Cooper-Young) that would be easy for our students to find and report,” Kelley says. “It’s about getting to know faces, building relationships and understanding the community.”
