As of Sunday, the Copenhagen Post is reporting that 379 fires have been lit in Denmark, including 108 cars and 11 schools. It also seems safe to assume that this number is on the low end because they can't possibly have seen every fire.
We leave for Copenhagen tomorrow morning at 6:30 am. For our assignment down there, I plan to do a story on the use of wind power in Denmark and their influence on the rest of the world. Should be an interesting experience.
In class this morning we had two guest speakers:
Lars From, a reporter for Jyllands-Posten, one of the country's largest papers
and
Irene Neverla, the chair of the Institute for Journalism and Mass Communication Research at the University of Hamburg
Both spoke on environmental issues and it was some pretty interesting stuff. Irene Neverla had a laundry list of educational accomplishments and spoke very intellectually. Her talk was titled "The Climatic Turn: How and Why Journalism Has Discovered Climate Change."
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1 comment:
Great subject choice. How are the assignments organized? Are you given topics, or do you have to create them yourself? Are you meant to seek and search out people to interview on your own, are you given some directive, a list of people to call, etc? Sounds interesting. Sounds like you picked a good program. I would be interested to hear the content of the different lectures, especially the one by Irene Neverla on climate change and journalism.
I found while in copenhagen that there were a lot more noteworthy speakers that came to give talks (not at DIS, but at the University of Copenhagen which we attended). I remember seeing Tadao Ando, a great architect, there. I also found that the lectures and classes seemed to have more "adult" content, or just seemed more intellectual and expected more of the listener or student. Do you get that at all?
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