Vince Filak, adviser for The Daily News

Dave has an amazing ability to work through problems. A former university police officer was on trial in civil court for killing a Ball State student. The case was in Indianapolis, about 50 miles away and we weren't allowed to bring cameras, digital recorders or computers into the courtroom, Dave worked with the editor to brainstorm ways to get up-to-the-minute information to our readers under these circumstances. In the end, Dave helped set up a Twitter account and route it through our newspaper's home page. The reporter filed 160 character missives from court via text messaging on her phone, thus keeping our audience up to date on the story while the readers of the city paper had to wait for trial breaks so the "professional" journalist could call in his notes to the office.

In short, he thinks about the big things and the little things all with the idea of how best to get important information to our audience.

"Dr. Joe" Misiewicz, chair of Ball State University’s Department of Telecommunications

 “Studinski” totally rocks! Dave also has the unique ability to synthesize things, see connections and come up with solid plans to make products better.

His writing is excellent.  His use of emerging media is solid.  His ability to communicate verbally is outstanding.  

Erin Moody, former colleague at The Daily News

Dave Studinski is one of the few journalists I know who can write a column explaining why someone or something is wrong or needs to be changed and make everyone, including the subjects, laugh about it.

That's something we need more of, as media so often focuses on crime, corruption and disasters. He takes the news so many younger consumers don't want to read, or know about, and presents it an engaging manner that even the most reluctant readers will be drawn into.

Dave doesn't understand limits, and he doesn't see a problem jumping over boundaries separating print, Web and broadcast journalism. Under his leadership, the school newspaper explored interactive reporting, created a nightly podcast, and combined forces with the student-run news program and actually broke stories on TV the night before they ran in print. He's embracing what new media (or old in some cases) can do for print at a time when everyone preaches that newspapers are failing. That's bull, and Dave is proving it.

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If you're too busy to read this entire article, try sticking it in your ear.

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Eight years ago, Paul Buis put a small digital recorder in his right shirt pocket, hit play and began lecturing his class.

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To protest Facebook's addition of news feeds last week, students across the country turned to the one medium they knew best for large-scale communication and networking - Facebook.

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Reporters often get a bad wrap for being too nosey. Most of the time, it's all an effort to get the "scoop" on a news story before the competitor. When a competitor beats you to it, the reporter is said to be "scooped."

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Courtesy of my female roommate, the March 2008 issue of Cosmopolitan has graced the top of my toilet for the last few weeks. Its bright yellow cover with Rihanna taunts me every time I'm in the bathroom.