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 2007

Burma coverage by the BBC, Al Jazeera

Saturday, September 29, 2007

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 […]

More advice for (young) journalists

Friday, September 28, 2007

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 […]

BBC News reader comments and other contributions

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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 […]

Proof of concept: Solo video can be great

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

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 […]

Advice for journalism students

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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. […]

‘It happened to television, radio and cable’

Monday, September 24, 2007

This video is very effective in getting its message across.

Video by: SavetheInternet.com
Quote by: Bill Moyers (in the video, at 2:10)

Multimedia package: The murder trial

Monday, September 24, 2007

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 […]