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 June 2006

Generic is dead; didn’t you get that memo?

Friday, June 30, 2006

Tim Porter reports today on a deal that would smush the San Francisco Chronicle into an online Dumpster of sorts with the newspapers newly acquired by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews — the San Jose Mercury News, the Contra Costa Times and the Monterey Herald.
What a shame. And what a shortsighted, clueless plan that would be.
Porter gets […]

Free wi-fi: That’s a REAL community idea

Friday, June 30, 2006

What an amazingly smart idea: FREE wi-fi from your local newspaper.
As described by PaidContent (found by way of Journerdism) the idea is that The Pilot will give free wireless Internet access to all of Moore County, North Carolina, and also offer (separately) a pay package of WiMax.
What’s totally brilliant about this is that every free […]

Soundslides examples: Links and tips

Friday, June 30, 2006

Photojournalists discuss Soundslides and post links in a forum called Multimedia Journalism at the SportsShooter site. Lots of good tips here!
Technorati tags: photojournalism | multimedia | Flash | video | online journalism | Soundslides

Reinvent yourself online

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Michael Riley, the editor of The Roanoke (Va.) Times, wrote a blueprint for online innovation in the spring 2006 issue of Nieman Reports: Lessons from a Newsroom’s Digital Frontline.
Finally, some optimism!
… the future of what we do is not as scary as it seems. Newspapers — or, more precisely, newsgathering operations — are in a […]

Documentary video — short examples

Thursday, June 29, 2006

I like to catch Frontline/World on PBS, and with a little help from TiVo, I was lucky enough to see three attention-gripping documentary shorts earlier this week. Now I just found a news item that says all three shorts were made by recent graduates of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California […]

Every picture tells a story, don’t it?

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Several people have contributed thought-provoking comments on my recent post about photojournalists doing multimedia work. They include Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. (example slideshow: Brothers in Arms, produced by Mulvany with photos and audio by his colleague Brian Plonka); Aaron Vogel, a photo-j student at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa […]

Flash 9 player is here

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

I saw it first on Will Sullivan’s blog! I thought that was worth noting, because with all the mailing lists and Bloglines subscriptions I’ve got, by chance and by luck, I got it first from Will, who’s a pure journalism guy (albeit an online nerd, like me).
Here’s the press release from Adobe (the artist formerly […]