By Mindy McAdams

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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 the “audiences” category

Faith in networks (or, how do you know what you need to know?)

Friday, April 4, 2008

Thanks to Mathew Ingram for highlighting an article by Brian Stelter about networked information, in which Stelter illustrates ways in which younger voters act as conduits of news and current events. Their networks are not the old top-down networks of mass media — they resemble more the interpersonal networks of the bazaar, the coffee shop, […]

MVPs for January

Saturday, February 23, 2008

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

Do you know who this is?
Time to get crazy
Get your act together with video, or give it up
Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD
Teach audio in your newsroom or classroom (here’s how)

For that time period, 1,439 URLs […]

MVPs for December

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Most visited posts on this blog from December 1, 2007, through January 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics:

Learning Flash is not the answer
Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD
You need this to get a job in journalism
Learning the new tools for storytelling
The $200 Linux laptop, fully loaded

For that time period, 1,085 URLs […]

Podcasts as a side dish, not the main course

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Fighting against boredom is a big part of teaching. One of the struggles I face as a teacher is finding a balance between reviewing the assigned reading (and the assigned viewing, e.g. professional online work) and being too repetitious. Students who avoid doing the reading want the teacher to provide a full regurgitation, which obviously […]

What is your measuring stick?

Friday, December 14, 2007

At the thoughtful online-J blog Ricochet, Chrys Wu today points us to a first-rate post by Chip Griffin titled Throwing Out the Social Media Rulebook. This is very, very useful for all the journalistic folks who are trying to evaluate whether new online stuff you’re trying out is working — or not.
I’m here to tell […]

Are you networking, in all the right ways?

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

The other day, a friend of mine said some sites we were discussing should get together and become a “portal.” I had to bite my tongue. Portals — what a sad, misguided idea that was!
Portals always seemed to me like an undifferentiated mess — like the failed Pathfinder site that Time Inc. carried around its […]

Connecting people to people

Thursday, November 22, 2007

The missing link in the concept of “community” on news organizations’ Web sites: Who are these people? New media consultant Marshall Kirkpatrick says you can add the necessary social glue without trying to look like a cheesy Facebook imitator:
… instead of adding a social network to their site, they should just add rich user profile […]