By Mindy McAdams
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Early last week, someone added an old post from this blog to StumbleUpon. It garnered about 200 pageviews that day, making a little spike in my site traffic report. The post was from December 2006, and I didn’t even remember writing it.
Everyday journalism, on the job
I wrote about how a reporter would do her job [...]
In the midst of layoffs and announcements of newsroom downsizing, I continue to receive good reports from former students who are working in online journalism. They’re not always doing the work they could be doing (and should be encouraged to produce), but they’re not scared of losing their job tomorrow, either.
This one comes from a [...]
A nice use of blogging for journalism interns, shared by Penny Bender Fuchs, at the University of Maryland j-school:
I have my 62 summer interns blogging rather than writing papers on their experiences. They are required to post to the blog at least seven times during the summer, answering specific questions (such as: Describe your employer [...]
“The New York Times is doing all this video for the Business section. If you never look at their Business section online, you’ll never find it.”
My friend Ehrin and I were somewhere in Hanoi, eating pho cuon at a table on the sidewalk, when he told me this. He said the Times has been hiring [...]
Some people at a U.S. embassy reception tonight, here in Hanoi, expressed excitement on hearing that I am teaching online journalism to about 30 Vietnamese journalists. An American suggested that I should teach them how to stay safe and not get thrown into jail. I ventured that they probably think enough about that, without any [...]
The Associated Press is touting something they call “1-2-3 filing.” It reminds me of Bloomberg’s model (developed, what, 20 years ago?) and more recently, the BBC News online method. But derivative or not, it makes darned good sense. AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll explained the new model at the World Association of Newspapers conference on [...]
From Beet.tv:
The reporters in the print newsroom are integrating video shooting into their normal, everyday storytelling, Chet says.
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