Red River flooding - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Volunteers help place sandbags outside the home of Jeremy Kuipers in Moorhead, Minn., Tuesday, March 24, 2009. (AP Photo/The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Richard Tsong-Taatarii)
Red River flooding - The Big Picture - Boston.com
The Red River is approaching record flood levels, likely to break century-old records this weekend. Flowing north toward Manitoba along the Minnesota-North Dakota border, the river is jammed up by ice and is being fed by rain, snow and meltwater. The National Weather Service has issued projections of a crest of 43 feet near Fargo, North Dakota, 24 feet above flood stage. Volunteers and national guardsmen are out in force, building levees, rescuing and evacuating those that need to get to higher ground. Cold temperatures are hampering efforts, freezing damp sandbags and making the job that much more strenuous for volunteers. 800 more National Guard troops and 150 Red Cross personnel are arriving in the area this weekend.
Elsie, one of two Stensgard family dogs, sands on the earthen and sandbag dike surrounding the Stensgard home, not pictured, which overlooks a flooded outbuilding as the Red River continues to rise, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Due to the flooding, the Stensgard home can only be reached by boat. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
A section of the Rocky Mountain News newsroom sits empty on February 27, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. The edition on Friday the 27th was the last one for the nearly 150-year-old daily, Colorado’s oldest newspaper. The owner E.W. Scripps Co. announced the day before that the paper was closing down after efforts to sell the money-losing newspaper failed. (John Moore/Getty Images)
© Luiz Vasconcelos, Jornal A Crítica/Zuma Press
1st prize General News Singles: Luiz Vasconcelos, Brazil, Jornal A Crítica/Zuma Press Woman tries to stop forced eviction of her people, Manaus, Brazil, March 10, 2008.
Every day my wonderful friend Rachel forwards me the journalism job listserv circulated by her university. Of course, I usually skip right over the PR jobs that sound like they actually pay a living wage and head right for anything that says ´´reporter´´ or even better ´´intern.´´
Today, however, there was no skipping involved, nor was a forced to ponder what my parents might do to me if I tell them I am interested in spending a fourth summer as an intern.
This is because the listserv was even more pathetic than usual.
I´ve copied you all below. Anybody want to get a drink? (It´s almost 5 pm here).
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1. JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS:
Sorry, no postings this week.
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1. FREELANCE:
Sorry, no postings this week.
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1. JOURNALISM EDUCATION:
Sorry, no postings this week.
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| — | throughthislens by my friend Julie, a recent graduate currently living in Buenos Aires. |
I’m looking through yesterday’s newspaper front pages. It’s very interesting to see the similarities in design. Many newspapers went very traditional with a photo of Barack or Barack and Michelle with a pull quote from his speech. The pages that really stand out to me are the ones that went the extra mile to do something original. My favorite design, The Daily Press (above), is so simple and yet so powerful.
My other two favorites are the Cape Cod Times and the Seattle Times:
Props for a creative (nerd-tastic) headline goes to RedEye:
Props for creativity and originality go to the Salt Lake Tribune and A Tarde:
The entire world was watching the United States yesterday and it is evident in the front pages of yesterday’s international newspapers (pages 11 through 20 are all international). I think it’s awesome that we and this historic occasion are so important in international communities, but has something international of similar scale ever been covered in the United States with such prominence? I understand that we’re a huge power in the world and that a lot rests in Obama’s hands, but shouldn’t we be just as interested in the happenings of other countries as they are in ours?
