By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for December 2005

Some Sites for Citizen Journalism

Friday, December 30, 2005

The News Is Now Public: There is some uproar about a cellphone photo from the London bombings — apparently it has been used without regard for the photographer’s rights. We may see a lawsuit …
Then there is this MSNBC.com mini-site for CJ. It’s mostly about Hurricane Katrina. (Very different from NowPublic.com.)
Scoopt is very much about […]

Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News

Friday, December 30, 2005

Tuned Out is the title of a book by David Mindich, a former assignment editor for CNN and now an educator at a small liberal arts college in Vermont. The book tries to answer the question “Why don’t Americans under 40 follow the news?” and it does come up with a few ideas that we […]

Taking Notes

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The idea behind this blog is that it can serve as a place to keep my notes, observations and ideas about teaching. Mostly what I teach concerns online journalism. I also teach about the Internet as a communication medium and about technologies of communication in general.
I have just finished the fall semester, and my grades […]