By Mindy McAdams
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Wow, the comments are still coming in on my earlier post Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism (28 so far) — and not just from students!
Chuck Fadely writes:
Most media companies are using freelancers and part-timers rather than new hires these days.
More important than the computer course are the acccounting and biz courses that will [...]
Google has improved the widgets on my personal Google home page. Now the individual story headlines can be expanded on the page:
I immediately noticed how much more information I get from Techmeme, compared with washingtonpost.com.
Get your own personal Google home page.
Google has decided to call these gadgets, while everyone else is happy with widgets. Like [...]
Yesterday I described the modules of a specific story with substance (one about increasing the national minimum wage in the U.S.), and Sunday I explained the steps necessary for a reporter or editor to come up with the right set of modules before starting to report ANY story.
I didn’t emphasize that the modules are all [...]
A lot of journalism students have weighed in on my earlier post — Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism — and I’m very happy to see it.
In the comments, “Elizabeth” characterizes a whole segment of journalism students when she says she doesn’t want to be a journalist if she can’t be the kind we [...]
The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa. (daily circ. 55,000), has been posting a fair amount of video online. What’s more, they have been posting it to Blip.tv as well as their own Web site. It’s very local stuff — check out this flood coverage from a few months ago.
Found via an article about Blip.tv courting the [...]
To continue from where I left off yesterday — here’s where I am taking a turn away from journalism as we know it. What kind of reporting should be invested in EACH module of the story? (Yesterday I discussed how to come up with the modules before you begin reporting the story.)
Module: How Would a [...]
Last week I wrote a bit about the idea that journalists tell stories: It’s about stories … which stories? And why?
This is turning into something of a mantra among many in the journalism field, as they emphasize that this fact remains the same, in spite of all the upheaval going on in journalism today: We [...]
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