By Mindy McAdams
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Tomorrow — yes, tomorrow — on the beautiful campus of my university:
Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
All I’m doing is one session about blogging. I would have done anything they asked me to do, but blogging is all they wanted from me. (Yeah, go figure — a prophet is often without honor in her own land, [...]
Today in class I told the students: You don’t really have a story if you simply tell me about an issue, a trend, or even an event. If you want me to relate to the issue, you’re going to have to personalize it.
The best way to do that: Use a character.
I don’t mean a fictional [...]
Roanoke.com is quitting its TimesCast, a daily online video program (some people call these “Webcasts”). While I have never been a big fan of the TimesCast, I did admire the effort the talented folks up there in Virginia lavished on it. I’m hoping that we’ll see some cool new stuff from them, now that all [...]
Ryan Sholin (Invisible Inkling) is tweeting live from the Networked Journalism Summit at CUNY, happening right now.
Update (Oct. 12): Good summary of the day’s events and talks from Squared.
The News Journal’s Web site, Delaware Online, has produced a package about an unusual topic: dwarfism and people who have that condition. Little People concerns the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, where study and treatment of dwarfism is a specialty.
Angela Grant has written a good critique of the package, and I was glad to [...]
Journalists find local examples of a widespread problem, then personalize the issue. This is a time-honored method of sharing information, of course. Even the classic stories of ancient Greece taught the listeners something — but people listen because the story is good, and not because they are eager to be taught.
The Roanoke Times took this [...]
In an interview, Derek Willis, a database editor at washingtonpost.com, recommended this for journalism students:
There are plenty of academic disciplines that use data all the time. So if a student knows a professor who does survey research, that’s usually database-oriented. Or political scientists who study election results or voter participation — they usually deal with [...]
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