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 July 2006

Research about blogging

Friday, July 28, 2006

For researchers in mass communication (read: professors with Ph.D.’s, and graduate students who hope one day to be professors with Ph.D.’s), blogging is like a candy store full of goodies. So much to study! So many ways to study so many things!
Constantin Basturea has compiled an excellent list of the research papers about blogging that […]

Current.tv: Like YouTube, only with … TV

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Got a video camera? Want to tell a true story? Then take a look at Current. This is not just more Blip and YouTube. Nope. Current includes “real” TV, at least via satellite and cable. Not in my town, naturally, because in my town we have a monopoly cable TV company, Cox — so we […]

U.S. broadband growth continues

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Broadband connections in the United States increased by 18 percent during the second half of 2005, from 42.4 million to 50.2 million lines in service, according to a report from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, released yesterday.
For the full 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2005, U.S. broadband connections increased by 33 percent, an addition of […]

Who is a journalist? Good answer!

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Just a damn good read:
What’s the difference between the citizen and the professional journalist? In one word please.
Training? Accountability? Pay?
Fear, I said. Fear of the almighty bollocking that awaits every freesheet reporter who spells the mayor’s name wrong to every Fleet Street investigator whose key source disappears as the story goes to bed.
Makes me want […]

Guys with big cameras scared of little camera?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Shop Talk had a good story (July 25) from Sam McManis of the Sacramento Bee newspaper about how News10 reporter Dan Adams became a VJ — a video journalist who reports, shoots, edits and transmits the story package all by himself. (If you need a free login, try BugMeNot.)
Mention the acronym VJ and watch TV […]

Have you Googled yourself lately?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Enjoyable, excellent, relevant: Linton Weeks of The Washington Post writes about why you should Google yourself — to learn what other people know about you.
“Public embarrassment has been the growth industry in the United States for the last few years,” he says [that’s Bob Reno, who runs Badjocks.com, where you can see “athletes behaving badly”]. […]

Best U.S. election map ever (in Flash)

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Kudos to The New York Times’s Ben Werschkul and Adam Nagourney for producing this beautiful infographic and map that details the Senate, House and gubernatorial races of 2006.
Better than The Washington Post’s map … NPR’s map … CQ’s map … did I miss any?
I’ve been showing students and journalists the Times’s 2004 Flash map […]