A school is not a museum, and a movie theater is not a restaurant. If a newspaper were a building, what kind of building would it be? Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while [...]
You can’t generalize about journalism programs across North America. Some programs are pumped full of online journalism opportunities and skills training. Some still have zero emphasis on today’s real world of journalism. This is illustrated well in the comments on a post by Megan Taylor (disclaimer: one of our online-J students). Pat Thornton got agitated [...]
The Newspaper Association of America finds itself chained to a product description in an era when the product (the medium) is not in a sustainable position. The NAA formed in 1992 when seven newspaper industry associations merged. One, the American Newspaper Publishers Association, was founded in 1887. In 1887, there was only one way to [...]
Too many people in the journalism field still don’t get it: Great photography tells a story. And it sells the story too. Here’s an example of how it pays — yes, actually pays, in terms of bigger audiences — to understand that. “D” is a local magazine for the Dallas – Fort Worth (Texas) area. [...]
In a post at the Technolo-J blog, Ron Sylvester of The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle explains how the paper took advantage of online media and digital reporting techniques to cover an important murder trial. Multimedia is not just about adding a video or audio. It’s about an experience, using a variety of media parts to make [...]
On the topic of charges of plagiarism against John Merrill, a revered journalism professor and ethicist, our dean emeritus Ralph Lowenstein recommends that you read the following, in this order, before coming to judgment: A Nov. 9 column about the situation by Tom Warhover, the Columbia Missourian’s executive editor for innovation. Merrill’s column of Nov. [...]
Video online opens a new world that few YouTube watchers have seen. Wide distribution for exposés of police brutality in Egypt, for example, have emboldened a timid local press to write for the first time about the longstanding practices of abuse and torture. In 24 Hours for Darfur, regular people make impassioned statements about stopping [...]