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For 12 short days, we are welcoming five bright young students from Lindenwood University's St. Charles campus to learn about media convergence. Media convergence is the melding together of different media (such as in this case, television and the Internet).

Journalism Program Manager Julie Beard and her students are at the station each weekday morning from January 3rd through January 18th, 2008. Their assignments will cover: the basics of blogging, providing a student’s perspective of a story as they follow a reporter, understanding social networking as it applies to news, and discussing opportunities in the media industry. This is a professional journalism laboratory course and also the first time FOX 2 has partnered with a university to provide a hands-on learning experience completely taught at the station.

And the great part is that the St. Louis community is encouraged to contribute to their experience! In fact, it's part of the course! Check out their blogs and please comment on them. We are privileged to be partnering with Lindenwood University, and we hope this experience will be the first of many more curriculums in the future.

SARA: Hello everyone! I'm a junior at Lindenwood University and currently majoring in mass communications with an emphasis on television. I currently work at United Services where I am an assistance teacher for three year-olds. In my spare time I enjoy long shopping days, movies, and just... >>VISIT BLOG

DAN: Just in case anyone was wondering who this Dan Sonderman guy is, and chances are you're not but, I’m going to tell you anyway. By day I’m a mild mannered student majoring in journalism, by night I work a hospital supply room delivering supplies to medical people. I also free-lance for... >>VISIT BLOG

MELISSA: I am a senior at Lindenwood University. I am majoring in journalism and am the managing editor of LU's newspaper, The Legacy. In my free time I enjoy hanging out with family and friends. I also love going to Ted Drewes and writing poetry... >>VISIT BLOG

CHELSEA: I am a student at Lindenwood University, planning on graduating in 2009 with a degree in Journalism. I enjoy many things: writing, eating and shopping being very high up on that list. I don't care for the cold St. Louis weather, but I can deal if it means keeping all of the great friends I... >>VISIT BLOG

JEN: I am a senior at Lindenwood anticipating my introduction into the "real world" this May. After switching majors every semester I have created my own via a contract degree. It's called Written and Visual Communications which is basically a fancy way of saying journalism with a... >>VISIT BLOG

JULIE: I am the Journalism Program Manager at Lindenwood University. I've been a TV Reporter in St. Louis, a Fox television news writer in Chicago, a popular fiction novelist, and (many moons ago) an actress at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis... >>VISIT BLOG

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