From a story in USA Today (Jan. 30, 2006: Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas):
Newspaper executives “are opening their minds to a host of ideas, including new paper publications, television and radio services, websites, podcasts and transmissions to cellphones.”
Hmm, let me check my calendar. Yes, it’s 2006. What took them so […]

In Wikis test students’ research skills, Roger Riddell writes that the increasing use of Wikipedia and “similar online reference tools” is adding urgency to the need to educate people about how to judge the accuracy and reliability of Web information.
Wikipedia got a black eye last year when John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Robert Kennedy […]

In Killer Interviewing Tips for Podcasters, Part 1, Jack Herrington advises us to start with the topic:
“What are people talking about? What are YOU talking about? Find a person at the center of the swirl and come up with three or four questions that you are dying to ask.”After that, it’s a matter of persistence […]

From an excellent article (in English / en español) by Julian Gallo, a professor of new media in Argentina.
“Basically, the story that is published in Internet today is still being produced as it has historically been produced in printed media. The author deals with the important stuff (he writes) and other people enlarge or enrich […]

According to a press release (via Yahoo News/PRNewswire), the blog MediaShift will “explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.”
The MediaShift debut is scheduled for Jan. 18. Mark Glaser, formerly of Online Journalism Review, is going to run the show … er, blog.
While this is all well and good, […]

Just found this piece about multimedia journalism from June 2005, by Talia Maze, in the Ryerson Review of Journalism. It discusses the Batten Awards of 2003 and 2004. The writer interviewed Ashley Wells of MSNBC.com and also Jane Ellen Stevens, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Maze talked to my friend Mary McGuire, […]

NPR ran a nice story yesterday about a blog that tracks interesting applications of Google Maps. One example is a map of local murders from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
I’ve been encouraging one of our master’s students to work on a project linking a map to a database of local education statistics. This student has […]