THE ITHACAN

News content compromised by business reality, and where’s our future?

By Jeremy Li • April 6, 2014

For start-up journalist like me, two most important questions I ask: Where does journalism get the money from and is the digitization of media revitalizing the morbid industry? Pew Research recently published...

The peril of social media without vetting it…

By Jeremy Li • February 15, 2014

This past weekend in Italy, Napoli Football Club had a heart attack moment over an alleged racial abuse claim from its home fans that has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook. The whole thing started...

Editor’s note on ASA editorial

By Megan Devlin • February 12, 2014

The Ithacan’s Feb. 6 editorial, “Reveal the real,” has generated considerable comment around campus and in social media, with many readers saying the language and comparisons expressed in it were...

Unconventional Super Bowl Ads Win the Game

By Nik DeCosta-Klipa • February 3, 2014

Remember last year when Oreo blew up the social media world with this tweet following the Super Bowl blackout? [acf field="code1"] I still do. And besides the usual Budweiser Clydesdale commercial,...

Editorial: Media potential

By The Ithacan • September 18, 2013

Ithaca College recently hosted Carl Corry, the online editor for Newsday, to speak about the rise of smartphone journalism. Corry reiterated that journalists must come out of school knowing the basics...

Editorial: Use new media responsibly

By The Ithacan • April 24, 2013

When a tragedy on American soil sparks a widespread sense of nationalism, the mainstream media finds itself in a powder keg holding a match. This was the case for major news organizations during the Boston bombings and the subsequent manhunt. The reporting from Boston shed light on the many opportunities for failure in America’s current…

Community unites after fatal bombings at Boston Marathon

By Kelsey O'ConnorSabrina Knight, Editor in Chief and Assistant News Editor • April 18, 2013

Ithaca College students gathered Wednesday night to lend each other support in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. Thirty-four students stood in a circle by the Textor Ball holding candles and sharing comforting words.

Social media a good place for Science Fun 101

By Amanda Hutchinson, Contributing Writer • March 3, 2013

Science can be scary. Even as a biology minor wanting to pursue science journalism, I’m a little intimidated by the ideas of quantum physics, thermochemistry, or developmental psychology. Unfortunately, it’s the stigma that science is hard that keeps a lot of people out of it, and once they’re out, it’s difficult to get them back…

Photo-sharing app with time limit feature entertains student body

By Allie Healy, Accent Editor • December 5, 2012

Ithaca College students use Snapchat to share photos with their friends.

Interview with a Common Squirrel

By SB Kasulke, Blogger, Knave • November 9, 2012

I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers. No, seriously. A big part of this “talking to weirdos on the Internet” job involves unearthing stranger’s personal email addresses and tweeting at people I’ve never met in the hopes they’ll waste twenty minutes of their life answering my questions. A surprising amount of people are completely…

I was rejected by a cartoon cereal mascot

By SB Kasulke, Blogger, Jerk • October 29, 2012

Sun. 4:15 PM Sent off my fourth or fifth tweet to @RealCapnCrunch, the official, verified[1] twitter account of Captain Crunch. Yes, that Captain Crunch. The foremost naval commander of Quaker Oats cereals. He’s never responded to any of my tweets asking for an interview. This is worrisome. I have a bunch of followers who can…

Where does instagram fit in?

By Rachel Woolf, Photo Editor • September 14, 2012

An outlook on what Instagram means for professional and serious amateur photographers. It's not as bad as some may think.