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Teaching Online Journalism

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Archive for April 2008

Is it real, or is it Photoshop?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What did the scene really look like? Too many photojournalists have been dodging and burning the heck out of their pictures for too long. It’s not real, and it’s not accurate. But they’re doing it anyway, ethics be damned.
In a wonderful and long-needed blog post, Carrie Niland serves up one educational example (in a real [...]

Two things I learned this weekend

Monday, April 14, 2008

(1) You can make a playlist of a selected group of videos in YouTube and then generate a custom video player (also in YouTube) to play just those videos — in any order you select. Maybe this is old news to everyone else, but it was new to me. I thought it was really cool, [...]

MVPs for February

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Most visited posts on this blog from February 1, 2008, through March 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics:

6 tips for comments on stories and j-blogs (this post garnered more than 1,200 pageviews from StumbleUpon in the one-month period, with those visitors spending an average of 1 min. 37 sec. on the page; in contrast, [...]

Better writers needed (and fewer editors)

Friday, April 11, 2008

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Good writing remains one of the stalwart needs in the journalism field.
Read this in the context of slashing the number of editors that stand (often belligerently) between a story and the audience.
The layers of editing newspapers lavish on stories have long been regarded an essential safety net. [...]

We used to use radio for this …

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Olympic Torch carried through San Francisco, reported minute by minute, from the scene:

If you still don’t understand the value of Twitter, click the image to see the story.
(Via Team Tibet, on Twitter.)

Testable, measurable skills we should teach in j-school

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Like a lot of j-schools, mine has been discussing updates to the curriculum. Much of that discussion concerns skills. So we ended up saying we need a list of skills. Then someone said, yeah, I’ve seen that kind of list, and I don’t know what some of that stuff means. If you say the students [...]

Magazines: An argument in favor of print

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

I asked three journalism professors who teach magazine courses to tell me the top three magazines they would choose to subscribe to in printed form, no matter how good the Web site for the magazine was. Here are their lists, in rank order:
Professor No. 1

O (Oprah Winfrey’s magazine)
Esquire
National Geographic

Professor No. 2

Esquire
Sports Illustrated
Outside

Professor No. 3

National Geographic
The [...]