Journal

Final preparations!

2010-07-16T19:05:13Z

Final preparations (as much as we can) are under way for this weekend's 48 Hour Film Project. Kickoff is tonight at 6 p.m.!

Vindicated ...

2010-07-09T23:07:17Z

City Times' first place award for Best Editorial was significant for more than just the fact it won over professional nondaily newspapers. It served as vindication regarding an issue that hurt my students deeply and greatly offended me.

Moving along on 48HFP

2010-07-02T02:15:07Z

The actors and staffers are set for Team Mercury Cinema's entry in the 48 Hour Film Project. With about twice as many actors this year, the project should be pretty exciting.

First meeting of the minds

2010-06-04T20:03:59Z

The lead members of Team Mercury Cinema are starting to get together as we near the July 16 kick-off for the 48 Hour Film Project. Catch up on our progress here.

City College journalists win again

2010-06-02T01:53:35Z

The San Diego Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists released their winners list for this year's annual regional awards, and student in the City College journalism program are well-represented, as has been tradition the past few years.

Younger people DO read newspapers

2010-06-01T00:11:25Z

I still don't believe naysayers and techno-experts who insist that younger generations absolutely do not read newspapers. My inspiration for posting this right now comes from observing a 20-something guy reading a Union-Tribune here at Old California Coffee House.

Blogging the 48 Hour Film Project

2010-05-31T21:50:04Z

Now that Citizen Koenig is a truly functional blog after searching for a good content handler, I can do in 2010 what I wasn't able to do last year, which is to track my 48 Hour Film Project from now all the way through post-production and screening.

Welcome to the relaunch!

2010-05-29T23:54:28Z

With this post, Citizen Koenig is officially relaunched using a new content management system that will making posting entries and comments a lot easier.

And still more ...

2009-06-02T19:00:00Z

As a lot of you might already know from living with today’s cyberspace environment -- once something is out there, it’s out there. Such as the case with a blog posting further fanning the public conflagration set against me earlier this year.

More Zenger’s mischief

2009-04-18T19:00:00Z

When I originally planned to post this today, I intended to open the entry a little differently. But after what happened last night (April 17), I have witnessed another strange layer to this whole Zenger’s saga. Aside from that, I was again dismayed by yet more factual inaccuracies and misstatements levied against me and my students in Zenger’s Newsmagazine.