By Mindy McAdams
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Please expect light posting this week.
If you have a WordPress blog, make a backup right now.
Richard Koci Hernandez’s excellent blog, Multimediashooter, was lost this weekend because of a hacker attack. It’s a loss to all of us in online journalism.
I just took a break from grading my students’ first video stories to look at the NPPA video winners, online here. The Judges’ Choice for video photography is “A Far Off Wild Place,” by Scott Jensen. Wow! It’s 5 min. 37 sec. of beautiful images of brown bears fishing, eating, walking, and generally just being [...]
I spent the past two days playing host to Ken Speake, a master storyteller and a longtime journalist. We put him in front of as many students as we could without completely wearing him down to a nub, and it might have been the most valuable 50 minutes each of those students has spent all [...]
Clay Shirky has a new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. It’s about technologies of social networking.
I don’t know if this is in the book; Shirky wrote it for a blog from his publisher, Penguin:
A good deal of user-generated content isn’t actually “content” at all, at least not in the sense [...]
Let’s think about programming today. Or scripting, if you will.
To go beyond static pages of text and images online, you will need at least a little programming. One reason why I advocate for everyone to learn at least a little is that if you bog down your newsroom’s expert programmer with too many trivial tasks, [...]
I’ve been pimping free WordPress blogs as the way to get started online for journalist bloggers, journalism educators, and students for months now (ever since I migrated this blog to WordPress, in fact). Most people will be content (even happy) with a free blog hosted at WordPress.com. (Real geeks, on the other hand, can download [...]
Journalism educators debate about what students need to know today. I have some ideas about that.
We insist, of course, on reporting fundamentals — news judgment, interviewing skills, fact checking, ethics, law. The need to master these remains strong.
All students should have basic familiarity with (basic) XHTML and CSS. That’s about 10 tags in XHTML. For [...]
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