The free downloadable book Journalism 2.0 is now available — also free, in PDF format — in Spanish and Portuguese. To download either one, go to this page at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. It’s a basic beginner text, less than 200 pages. Here are some reviews of the book.
This semester I had the opportunity to create and teach a new graduate course, focused on multimedia storytelling. I admitted 15 students, all of whom had some prior experience as reporters (for some, it was only a one-semester reporting class). The course is called Journalists’ Toolkit 1, and the complete syllabus is online. The students’ [...]
In an upbeat, happy column from the readers representative at The San Diego Union-Tribune, we consider the U-T’s Breaking News Team, which provides round-the-clock local news on the newspaper’s Web site. “How do so few do so much so quickly?” is apparently the question inspired by the team’s performance over the past two and a [...]
At the thoughtful online-J blog Ricochet, Chrys Wu today points us to a first-rate post by Chip Griffin titled Throwing Out the Social Media Rulebook. This is very, very useful for all the journalistic folks who are trying to evaluate whether new online stuff you’re trying out is working — or not. I’m here to [...]
This is a vanity post, pure and simple. Paul Bradshaw, who writes a blog called Online Journalism Blog, compiled a list he titled Are these the ten most popular journalism bloggers in America? In his first draft, this very blog came in at No. 6 (w00t!!). But then Paul realized he had omitted Romenesko and [...]
This is just plain cool — especially if, like me, you cut your teenage teeth on the Talking Heads in the 1970s: Byrne has a diary blog, and he wrote a big long entry about his VIP tour of the new New York Times editorial offices, including — I am not kidding — a karaoke/air [...]
Some interesting numbers from a survey conducted in June/July 2007 in Britain and Ireland by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), reported at Journalism.co.uk last week: 63 per cent of respondents were not working increased hours and nearly three quarters of journalist[s] were working the same shift patterns as before. Of those working longer hours, [...]