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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 August 2008

The morning after Obama’s acceptance speech

Friday, August 29, 2008

I would like to say for the record that I watched the convention on television. I watched it Tuesday, Wednesday, and last night. I watched it on PBS because Gwen Ifill is my favorite TV journalist. (I used to be loyal to Peter Jennings, especially after September 11, 2001.)
I didn’t flip channels. I didn’t look [...]

The return of MultimediaShooter

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Richard Koci Hernandez used to have this great blog called MultimediaShooter.com, and all of us online journalism junkies liked it — a lot! But it kept getting hacked, somehow, and Koci gave it up.
Now MultimediaShooter.com is back! And since Web guru Scot Hacker at Cal Berkeley set up the WP install, I think maybe we [...]

Resources for doing online journalism

Thursday, August 28, 2008

In case you never came across these short, handy lists — at Journalists’ Toolkit — take a moment and see whether they might help you out.
There are brief guides to starting out in audio, video, blogging, Flash, layout and design, HTML and CSS, etc.
If you have a good link to suggest, please leave a comment [...]

Rethinking the education of journalists

Thursday, August 28, 2008

A lot of j-schools are starting, or in the middle of, curriculum reform. Many of these efforts focus solely on integrating the “new” skills that we use to produce journalism for digital media and devices. I meet and talk with other journalism educators at conferences and conventions, and it seems like just about everyone is [...]

Live from inside the courtroom, via Twitter

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

A journalist is tweeting the closing arguments of a sentencing trial in Spokane — live. This is a capital murder case.

The newspaper’s Twitter feed is here. WARNING: Some descriptions and references relate to extreme violence. More trial coverage from The Spokesman-Review appears on a special Web page.
Journalists at The Wichita Eagle pioneered this kind of [...]

Behind the scenes: Make it even more transparent

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

I admire the journalists at The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Washington. They are doing great work in online video, redesigning their Web site, listening to their young staffers, and practicing transparency.
Now their editor, Steven A. Smith, has posted an account of how and why the newspaper fought to have a horrifying video (of the torture and [...]

When good business sense goes bad

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

So I was thinking, as I read this Gawker post (because Will Sullivan linked to it, and I look at almost everything Will links to, except the Lego things), that maybe there’s a parallel between what happened to daily newspapers and … Walmart. You know, an enterprise gets big, then bigger, and wipes out all [...]