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 December 2007

New Year’s resolution: Get networked

Friday, December 28, 2007

Journalists everywhere need to quit whining and go into action. Howard Owens has issued a challenge for all your non-networked friends — you know, the ones who never read any blogs except Romenesko or Shop Talk. The ones who don’t know how to work their digital cameras — or worse, don’t even own one. Yeah, […]

Photojournalism: Benazir Bhutto assassinated

Friday, December 28, 2007

Stunning on-the-scene photos and a voiceover narration by photojournalist John Moore:
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto (The New York Times)
I will venture to say that this collection of images — an audio slideshow without natural sound — is better than video. I also note the inclusion of several photos that are completely out of focus — […]

Video packages and longer video

Thursday, December 27, 2007

So I’m studying a few feature-length documentaries and reading the book Documentary Storytelling, 2nd edition, by Sheila Curran Bernard. Some thoughts:
1. We can learn a lot from Errol Morris.
I watched The Fog of War for the first time and found it fascinating, amazing, a great example of compelling storytelling. At the same […]

Study good examples of online video

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

What makes good journalistic video for the Web? Is there a formula?
As I prepare to teach journalism students how to shoot and edit video for online, I’m searching out examples that we can discuss and learn from.
Lucky for me, Angela Grant posted a very useful list of links to 15 examples of online video journalism […]

Job outlook for journalism graduates

Monday, December 24, 2007

New U.S. graduates with a bachelor’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $30,000, according to a survey of spring 2006 graduates. New graduates with a master’s degree in journalism or mass communication had a median annual salary of $38,000. Jobs held by all these graduates included those in public […]

The $200 Linux laptop, fully loaded

Friday, December 21, 2007

This baby is amazing. More photos of my new XO laptop are now on Flickr.

Previous post about the One Laptop Per Child program here. Buy two, give one, and you get a $200 tax deduction (U.S. residents).

Expanding the news brand via acquisitions

Friday, December 21, 2007

It’s high time I sent some blog love to Lucas Grindley, a journalist at HeraldTribune.com in Sarasota, Florida. He compiled a list in April 2007 of “businesses newspapers should buy” — and lo and behold, the buying has begun!
First Jupitermedia bought MediaBistro (July 2007).
Then News Corp. bought Beliefnet (announced Dec. 5), a site about religion […]