If you feel like broadening your horizons a little (OK a lot) then why not look around on UbuWeb. It's a huge online resource devoted to avant-garde audio-visual art. This covers everything from poets reading their work to artist films and sound art. OK - this may be a bit too out there, given that you are doing a Journalism course. And the site is a bit art theory jargon-heavy. That said, sometimes you can pick up really interesting ideas from this kind of thing.
I liked the Komar and Melamid and Dave Soldier audio art project, in which the artists (the first two) did a number of surveys on what people wanted from music and then, with the third guy (a musician) used the statistical data they got to create a Most Wanted Song and also a Most Unwanted Song. You can listen to both online. (They did the same thing to create a Most Wanted Painting - that's the pic shown above. I found it on Bob Rini's blog but it's all over the place online).
I also found a good selection of recordings of William Burroughs - the 20th Century American experimental author who worked with cut-ups (of tape and newspapers) to create novels and poems. If you've never heard him read before, it's worth a quick go.
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