By Mindy McAdams
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I am saddened to see that the military has again gone against the will of the people in Burma. The BBC’s online coverage continues to be inspiring; they are getting video and live reports (audio) from an “undercover reporter” inside the country. Reports from citizens have turned grim.
This report, although coming out of Bangkok, really […]
Paul Bradshaw’s list got me thinking. (See my post from Tuesday.) The list was so good, it kept cycling back through my mind over the next two days after I first read it. Here are the associated ideas that came along.
1. If you focus on tools and button-pushing, you de-emphasize the journalism.
I’m in the middle […]
Reading the BBC’s excellent online coverage of the protests in Burma (Myanmar), I learned something new (to me, anyway): BBC News has two types of comment moderation. Each one is briefly explained on this page. (The Burma discussion is “fully moderated.”)
E-mails are arriving from inside Burma, describing the events there. BBC News has been publishing […]
I saw this video — about a family returning to Rwanda — in July when I attended the Travel Channel Academy training. The story behind the story (as I remember hearing it) was that the videographer, Victoria Holden, had recently undergone a longer version of the same VJ training — a style sometimes referred to […]
Paul Bradshaw offers 10 succinct nuggets of advice on how to be a journalism student. These are wonderful, and I’m going to require my students to read them.
My favorite:
Be open to new experiences. So you’re interested in music. That’s nice, but if you think you’re going to land your first job on NME, you’re deluded. […]
This video is very effective in getting its message across.
Video by: SavetheInternet.com
Quote by: Bill Moyers (in the video, at 2:10)
Certain crimes grab and hold the attention of a local community. Unsolved murders of average, law-abiding citizens fascinate many of us. Maybe because murder, while all too common, shocks the moral fiber of most humans. Maybe because we are afraid it could happen to us — until we get the final explanation (who did […]
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