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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 July 2006

Online news, good and bad, in new Pew report

Monday, July 31, 2006

People who get news online don’t spend a heck of a lot of time doing it, according to the fine researchers at the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. In their newest study of how U.S. residents use and interact with the news, they found that more people use online news three […]

Video standout in Flash package

Monday, July 31, 2006

Some nice video work by Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon in a package about Amercian racism from the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman newspaper. Each of the four main stories has a single Flash video segment. Some of the interviews are staggering (racism quite clearly has not been wiped out).
The package itself is a bit clunky. Too many pieces pop […]

Why people use blogs

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Anil Dash is brilliant. If you already know that, you probably have already read his post about how people get paid in currencies other than money. “People” being online contributors, in this case. You know — the people formerly known as the audience. The vital 1 percent (he says 5 percent) who do all the […]

Online editors get bigger paychecks

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Jon Dube posted this about newspaper salaries:
Online editors enjoyed the biggest increases in base pay and incentives in 2006, according to the Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey.
The position of online editor recorded an 8.1 percent increase in base pay from 2005 to 2006, and an 8.8 percent increase in total direct pay, which consists of salary […]

Video for the newspaper (3)

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Cade White has posted his third installment about job shadowing the video journalists at the Dallas Morning News. He includes a short video about the videotaping of the assignment (bartender lights drinks on fire! Whee!).
The assignment took about an hour to shoot for video, compared to the 15-20 minutes it might have taken to shoot […]

Photo essay: Tour de France

Friday, July 28, 2006

Magnum in Motion photo essay, with narration and music: Tour de France. Lots of historic photos here. It’s the flavor, the sensation. Like poetry. No podium, no peloton. No doping. Via Metafilter.
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U.S. Congress slashes free speech (again)

Friday, July 28, 2006

Yelvington calls it a “war on social networking,” and he’s not exaggerating.
A total of 410 of our elected Representatives in Congress voted for this bill (H.R. 5319), which undercuts two vital elements of the First Amendment: freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble. (Thanks to Cory’s public records blog for the link […]