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

Numbers in the newsroom and in the audience

Monday, June 2, 2008

Two snips out of Howard Kurtz’s Washington Post column on May 25:
… we are working harder than ever, in part because of the round-the-clock demands of the Web; Post campaign reporters are constantly writing online items for The Trail column in addition to their daily stories. So to suggest that a shrinkage of the Post [...]

Meet the news audience of tomorrow

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.

I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, [...]

Why NYTimes.com is a pleasure online

Friday, April 25, 2008

Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, was answering readers’ questions online for the past five days.
What he looks for when hiring a new employee:
[A]n ideal applicant would have very strong traditional graphic design skills; in-depth training in usability and interaction design; practical experience coding XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash; a commercially viable comfort level with [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]