Urban v's the Commentariat

[butchersapron]

Does fellowship mean she gets to do it all paid for?

 

[DaveCinzano]

"I’ve been feeling for a while now that in order to take my writing to the next level, I needed to stop careering around chasing stories..."

Pretty sure that ‘careering around chasing stories’ is what distinguishes a reporter from non-reporters.

By way of contrast, here's a proper journalist, ‘careering around’ as she ‘chases a story’:

https://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-last-story-of-robert-bradford

Feel free to fund McKee's work, safe in the knowledge that she doesn't need to take her writing to the next level.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Last night danced semi-unironically to Avril Lavigne whilst we all discussed how much we regret campaigning for Hilary in 2016. Possibly my most millennial moment ever.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

From here http://nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFou...ipProgramAtAGlance/StipendsAndAllowances.aspx

International Fellows
Funds from the original Nieman bequest are restricted to U.S. citizens. International candidates must find financial support from sources outside the Nieman Foundation; however, finding funding is not a condition of being awarded a fellowship. The Nieman Foundation will assist International Fellows to secure necessary funds.

This funding can come from many sources. Typically, candidates work with foundations and journalistic organizations in their own countries to find money to support a Nieman Fellowship.

The cultural-affairs offices of U.S. embassies are good sources of information about exchange programs and other options for funding.

The Nieman Foundation also works with several international foundations that provide stipendiary support to citizens of certain nations or regions of the world. In addition, the Nieman Foundation occasionally uses unrestricted funds to support international Nieman Fellows.

 

[Theisticle]

Edgy

 

[DaveCinzano]

Sorry, guys, but I'm not going back out there today. Really don't want to be arrested and deported just for studying journalism.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

EDIT cos yer hoodedclaw said it first.

 

[butchersapron]

It's the ambition that gets me. Ambition is counter revolutionary.

 

[rekil]

"Laurie Penny, 27, never imagined she would find herself enmeshed in a world of poverty and the grip of the Harvard fellowship system when she graduated with a 2:1 degree in English from Oxford University in 2008"

 

[killer b]

Does fellowship mean she gets to do it all paid for?

There's allsorts of funding streams, bequests and whatnot that Oxford grads can tap up. Fortunately for her.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah, lots of elite mutual aid out there.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Yeah, lots of elite mutual aid out there.

"Special thanks go to the amazing Emily Bell, Paul Mason, Jason Cowley and Clay Shirky, who took the time to write letters of recommendation."

 

[DaveCinzano]

...Paul Mason...

“Why, she's all fucking off now!”

 

[Theisticle]

Maybe in a year, she'll drop the shitty teenage prose and learn to write correctly.

 

[DotCommunist]

just lol

 

[Theisticle]

"It’s a great honour to have been accepted, and one that I wasn’t expecting, given my age and background in non-traditional media."

Are you fucking kidding me?! The Guardian and New Statesman aren't traditional media? Christ.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Clearly The Only Interesting Person In Harvard (2014 Edition)

 

[J Ed]

"It’s a great honour to have been accepted, and one that I wasn’t expecting, given my age and background in non-traditional media."

Are you fucking kidding me?! The Guardian and New Statesman aren't traditional media? Christ.

http://thenewinquiry.com/author/laurie-penny/

Laurie Penny was born in a skip in Islington in 1986 and grew up wild in the back-alleys of London’s bourgeois ghetto, surviving only on mouldy paninis and half-eaten pots of hummous fished out of bins and sleeping in rolled-up copies of The Observer Review. After a dispute with a notorious urban fox gang, she fled to Brighton Beach, and was taken in by a radical seagull collective and weaned on mulched-up, regurgitated back-issues of Spare Rib and Red Rag. Eventually she was offered a scholarship to Brighton College Sixth Form, where she edited a student newspaper and never learned to wear a tie. She went to Wadham College, Oxford, and later moved back to London to work in a shop in Camden Market, where being a scuzzy, mohawked Brighton feminist was part of the job description. It didn’t stick, and she rapidly turned to a life of journalism, having discovered that she was unsuited to any other employment by virtue of being weird and difficult. Now she has long hair, a semi-regular income, and zooms around trying to put the world to rights. She can still talk to seagulls

Does anyone else understand what this bio is supposed to convey? Is it a 'fuck you' to people who point out that she is enormously privileged or ironic or an actual attempt to convey a lack of privilege?

 

[killer b]

"It’s a great honour to have been accepted, and one that I wasn’t expecting, given my age and background in non-traditional media."

Are you fucking kidding me?! The Guardian and New Statesman aren't traditional media? Christ.

I think that means she uses twitter.

 

[rekil]

Clearly I need to take my 'making shit up in interviews' to the next level.

 

[Theisticle]

http://thenewinquiry.com/author/laurie-penny/



Does anyone else understand what this bio is supposed to convey? Is it a 'fuck you' to people who point out that she is enormously privileged or ironic or an actual attempt to convey a lack of privilege?

Nobody makes more of an effort to re-write their history than she does.

 

[tbtommyb]

I hate these people:

'Im Europe.' The hubris...

 

[DaveCinzano]

Nobody makes more of an effort to re-write their history than she does.

What are you suggesting?

 

[rekil]

Clearly The Only Interesting Person In Harvard (2014 Edition)

Elaine Díaz Rodríguez (Cuba), journalist, blogger and professor at the University of Havana, will study Internet-based models of journalism that could serve a plurality of voices in Cuban civil society, with a particular focus on political consensus building and national reconciliation.

Interesting cos apparently, she was refused a visa last year. So was I the first time I tried to go to the US. The next time I had a go, the nice woman at immigration asked me why I'd been refused entry before. I half expected to be turned back so just said "because I was poor". After a pause she goes "They didn't like that huh? Welcome to the US". I should've fucking stayed there tbh.

 

[Bakunin]

Looks like Laurie is going back to university. http://laurie-penny.com/some-very-exciting-news/

Well, if she studies journalism really, really, really hard then she might actually become a proper journalist.

At those odds I'll put a fiver on and have enough to retire.

"I’ve been feeling for a while now that in order to take my writing to the next level, I needed to stop careering around chasing stories, go back to school and sit my bum down for some serious reading and nerding out. This fellowship is an unbelievable opportunity to do just that."

Oh man, I'm dying reading that.

So she wants to parade her authentic journalistic credibility, but doesn't want to to be 'Careering around chasing stories.'?


OK...

 

[killer b]

'nerding out' seems to be one of her favourite phrases atm. a grown woman, and the voice of a generation. nerding out.

 

[rekil]

'nerding out' seems to be one of her favourite phrases atm. a grown woman, and the voice of a generation. nerding out.

She likes American things.

 

[butchersapron]

Laurie Penny (UK anarchist), contributing editor of the New Statesman, editor-at-large of The New Inquiry, and a contributor to The Guardian, Vice, The Nation and many other publications, will study the economic history and theory of social movements, with an emphasis on digital culture and linguistics.

Hang on - if she's an anarchist wtf is she doing by crossing the picket line anarchists have for Harvard since its murderous role in the Sacco and Vanzetti case? Is she scabbing at hangman house?

 

[rekil]

I put in the anarchist bit. I punk'd you.

 

[butchersapron]

I put in the anarchist bit. I punk'd you.

I did notice that (really!) as it didn't appear on their announcement thing that i was just flicking through. She is crossing the line though isn't she?