Results tagged “journalism”

Good morning, Houston. Are you a local news junkie? Do you already know all the headlines we're covering here? If so, we'd love to have you: Houstonist is looking to build its news staff, and you're invited. You should keep up with what's going on in and around Houston and be able to put up a couple of posts a week, at least; some background in journalism is always a plus. If it sounds...

Houstonist landed her after departing from a small media market town where the most colorful television news personality was the local weatherman with the bad toupee - think Brick from Anchorman. Naturally we were blown away by the loud delivery, blue sunglasses and long earlobes that were Marvin Zindler. His ear splitting delivery of his tag line - "MAR-vin ZINDLER, EYE-witness NEWS!" - emblazoned the phrase in the memories of Houstonians despite hearing it only...

If you haven't yet seen Whitney Casey's (of Great Day Houston and CNN fame) new weekly Chronicle column "Relationships with Whit," then, by most accounts, you're pretty lucky. We usually leave hating on the Chron to other local blogs, but we couldn't help but notice some of the snitty reactions to Casey's column. From James Campbell's About:Chron blog: So the Chronicle has hired Whitney Casey to do a column on relationships? This is a woman...

Woody Allen's latest, Scoop, is his second British-set film starring Scarlett Johansson in a row, and while there are definitely some problems with Scoop, we for one hope he keeps the trend going. Though not nearly as interesting or engaging as last year's Match Point, which garnered an oscar nomination for original screenplay, Scoop certainly has its charm. That charm begins with the plot: a light-as-air bit of nonsense about a journalist who comes back...

More developments in the soap opera that is the mayor pro tem's office: Two former employees talked to the media Monday, one who was fired earlier this month for taking what officials say were unauthorized payraises and bonuses and another who was let go months ago under odd circumstances. Christopher Mays, who was among the four pro tem employees dismissed in the payroll scandal, told KPRC yesterday that his signature had been forged several times...

A couple of years after Texas A&M announced it would dissolve its journalism department, the university said today it will reinstate the program. It's A&M's version of that endearing '80s trick — you know, "We're gonna do away with journalism. Psyche!" (Or is it "syke?" See, this is why we need more journalists.) A&M was criticized in 2004 for eliminating its journalism program, a move it said was the result of budget cuts, high enrollment...