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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 March 2008

Catch-22 in journalism internships

Monday, March 31, 2008

Go to work for 10 or 12 or 15 weeks without any pay.
Give up your ability to work full-time and save money for the coming school year.
Pay rent in two places, if you can’t sublet your costly university-town apartment.
And — oh, yeah — pay for three academic credits (at full price) at your university while […]

Best multimedia packages judged by NPPA

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Just a quickie in case you missed –
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2008 Winners, Multimedia Packages
Some surprises! Go and look! (Zach Wise’s “Soul of Athens” — yes! MediaStorm’s “Black Market” — yes!)
Smart advice from the judges:
This was a difficult category for us to judge because each entry had a little of everything we were looking for, […]

Dith Pran, 1942 - 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008

“One time is too many.”
A moving video memoir of the Cambodian photojournalist, from The New York Times.
I remember seeing the film “The Killing Fields” in 1984 and wondering how this could happen. Then it happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina , and in Rwanda, and in Darfur. Maybe more people were killed in Cambodia than in any one […]

Let’s delete the word ‘repurposing’ from our vocabulary

Sunday, March 30, 2008

My friend Alf Hermida worked for BBC News online for many years, so please listen up:
It is time to stop talking about repurposing and instead to start a discussion on how to re-imagine journalism.
Alf’s been noticing that too many so-called online journalism textbooks spend too many pages discussing a practice that is just plain bad […]

Adding value: What journalists need to do now

Friday, March 28, 2008

From Phil Meyer, speaking on the occasion of a two-day symposium marking his retirement as Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to […]

2008 Olympics boycott talk — China vs. Tibet

Friday, March 28, 2008

A small news roundup …

Reporters Without Borders: Beijing 2008
The Economist: Still Simmering (March 28) and Welcome to the Olympics (March 27)
Global Voices: Tibet Protests 2008
BBC News: China Allows Diplomats into Tibet (March 28); excellent backgrounders in right-hand sidebar; Profile: The Dalai Lama

Update (3:20 p.m.):

James Fallows posted an interesting example of the Rashomon effect.
The Chinese […]

Learning from MSNBC.com (part 2)

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Unlike that guy in the movie “The Graduate” who said just one word to Dustin Hoffman — “Plastics” — an MSNBC.com deputy editor had two words for journalism students:
Databases and Flash.
In fact, MSNBC.com’s Tom Brew told us he had been given those two words by Hal Straus, the interactivity and communities editor at Washingtonpost.com. […]