Printing a high school newspaper can be expensive. Is the alternative to have no school newspaper at all? I hope not!
Here’s an example of high school students using a group blog as their student newspaper: OldeSchoolNews.com.
Bud Hunt, an English teacher at Olde Columbine High School in Longmont, Colorado, said in an interview:
We have about 100 […]

Lucas Grindley says cut-and-paste work in online newsrooms is important:
Tomorrow morning I’ll be waking up just before 4:30 a.m. to do some of that monkey work. And I contend it is legitimate journalism.
He’s right — headline writing, writing good summaries (to lure people into stories) and making sure all the story elements “are presented in […]

Tom Green has followed up on his two excellent articles about Flash video: The Rise of Flash Video, Part 3 — and this time, he’s getting down to business!
What you need to play along:

QuickTime or Windows Movie Maker
Flash Professional 8
Flash 8 Video Encoder (you already have this if you have Flash 8 Pro)

Now, about encoding […]

It may not seem promising when you learn that only 12 percent of Internet users have downloaded a podcast for later listening, according to research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. But note that it doesn’t say “have listened to” — it says “have downloaded.” (I think many people listen online without downloading.)
Then […]

Newspapers may submit video and interactive graphics as part of their entries for the Pulitzer Prize, effective this year. The AP had the story (see The Washington Post’s copy) on Monday.
For the awards handed out earlier this year, online material was allowed as part of all entries for the first time but limited to written […]

It used to be that most of the “online” jobs in newspaper newsrooms were brain-numbing robot labor, cutting and pasting in the middle of the night, and not much more. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” indeed.
Here are highlights from an ad from a small group of newspapers in Pennsylvania:
Lancaster […]

Rob Curley, the guru of innovation in online journalism, talked with MarketWatch’s Frank Barnako (here’s the MP3) — summary and commentary at The Local Onliner. It’s a very good summary; I especially liked what Rob said about video.
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