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 September 2006

Journalism students blogging in Kazakhstan

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Frederick Emrich is using blogs in a Kazakhstan university course called New Information Technologies. He has a blog in which he announces all class assignments. The 18 separate student blogs are linked in the sidebar.
The blogs all center on online journalism. Emrich’s students are learning about icons such as OhmyNews, the famous citizen journalism site [...]

Adding online skills to journalism courses

Saturday, September 23, 2006

I spent the past three days talking with journalism educators at a large university about how to update their program to better prepare their students for a career in a multi-platform media world. Like many journalism programs, this one is not in a position to change radically all at once.
Much of the advice I wrote [...]

Mobile news, free, from Washington Post

Friday, September 22, 2006

For folks like me who have “all you can eat” Internet on a mobile phone, this is great news. Come to this page with your phone and click the link(s) below to get the news feed!
Washingtonpost.com: Breaking international, national and local news. Opinion, politics and analysis, blogs and award-winning multimedia.
Slate: Criticism, wit and opinion [...]

Newspaper photo editor as videographer

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Travis Fox is:
one of seven “Video Journalists” for the Washington Post. He has produced pieces out of the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States, viewable here. This year, two of his pieces “Fueling Azerbaijan’s Future” and “Hurricane Katrina Coverage in New Orleans” are nominated for Emmy awards.
Is his video different from TV video?
I [...]

Compact, high-quality audio recorders

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Just a quick post to link to two reviews: The new Edirol R-09, reviewed by Mark Nelson, Aug. 31, 2006, and its close competitor, the M-Audio MicroTrack, reviewed by Jeff Towne, December 2005.
Each of these can be found for about U.S. $400.
I’ve been using the M-Audio for a few months and am pretty happy with [...]

A short guide to The Long Tail

Monday, September 18, 2006

Folio, the magazine about the magazine publishing industry, has a good interview with Chris Anderson, author of the best-selling book The Long Tail.
Anderson said the print version of a magazine is “not dead,” but:
… it’s not enough. The day when you could shovel your stuff onto the Web site and people would bookmark it [...]

Online news design, Part 3

Sunday, September 17, 2006

What kind of work goes into designing news Web pages? It’s quite different from designing for print.
The Onion’s 2005 site redesign won an award from Step (Inside Design), a prominent design magazine (the Best of the Web winners appear in the September-October issue, and not on their Web site). I don’t recall anyone in the [...]