The wire, run via Substack, helps student reporters share knowledge and reporting.
By Hanaa’ Tameez@hanaatameez March 16, 2021, 12:29 p.m.
March 16, 2021, 12:29 p.m.
Cal State Student Newswire launched in March 2020 as a wire service for student publications in the California State University system. Over the last year, it’s evolved from a wire service to an experimental, collaborative initiative to produce journalism across all CSUs.
California State University is the largest public university system in the United States, with 23 campuses and more than 485,000 students. Its sprawling size has made any coordination of coverage among student papers difficult. For instance, the university chancellor might speak at one campus, but his remarks are relevant to several others. In the past, if multiple student publications in the CSU system covered the speech, there would have been no consistent way to track the stories, share them, or collaborate across campuses. At the same tim
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Shake out every dose : Crowdsourcing sites help track down available COVID vaccines
Sacramento Bee 2/24/2021 Darrell Smith, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 24 Vaccine hunting websites are merging social media savvy with old-fashioned phone calls, popping up nearly overnight to join a growing digital community dedicated to tracking down available COVID-19 vaccines. We thought, There has to be some better way. We went from conversation to website in less than 24 hours, said Zoelle Egner, a co-organizer of the California vaccination information site VaccinateCA.com.
The site debuted in January, one of the many crowdsourced vaccine tracking sites and online wait lists that have emerged across a nation where the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 501,000 as of Tuesday evening, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 49,000 in the state have died from the virus as of Tuesday, California Department of Public Health numbers show.
History & Hope: Sac State professor Dr. Robert Stanley Oden on fighting for racial equality Share Updated: 1:12 PM PST Feb 22, 2021 By Julian Gaskins Share Updated: 1:12 PM PST Feb 22, 2021
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Show Transcript LICENSE PLATE 8 UKN 742. WILLIAMS IS BEING HELD ON ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS BAIL. ALL THIS MONTH, WE’RE SPEAKING WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN PUSHING FOR RACIAL EQUALIT WALTER: IN 1967, DR. STANLEY ODEN KNEW WHEN HE STEPPED ON THE CAMPUS OF U.C. DAVIS HE WOULD TAKE HIS KNOWLEDGE BACK TO HIS HOMETOWN OF SAN DIEGO AND HELP HIS COMMUNITY. BRANDI: THE FORMER MEMBER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND NOW A PROFESSOR AT SACRAMENTO STATE ENCOURAGED DIVERSITY AND PUSHED EVERYONE AROUND HIM TO FIGHT FOR EQUALITY. WALTER: THE NOW 73-YEAR-OLD AUTHOR WAS ONE OF ONLY 40 AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS ON T U.C. DAVIS CAMPUS, BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP HIM FROM CREATING THE BLACK STUDENT UNION WHICH STILL EXISTS TODAY BRANDI: IN OUR PROJECT COMMUNITY: H
How Oscar-winner Parasite reveals gold spoon and dirt spoon class divide in South Korea
Sacramento Bee 2/15/2021 Theodora Yu, The Sacramento Bee
The invisible, indelible boundary drawn by smell depicts the severe inequality in South Korea through two families in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite.” But the movie dives more into the country’s social problems, running deep and wide.
The South Korean film won big Sunday at the 92nd Academy Awards, including becoming the first non-English language film to win best picture. Bong Joon-ho, who won best director and best original screenplay, became the first Korean filmmaker to win those prizes. Fans were jubilant on Twitter and Instagram.