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 “blogging” category

Simple idea, gorgeous photos

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Nice idea (see it here):
The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery — with a [...]

Journalism interns, blogging together

Monday, June 16, 2008

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 [...]

MVPs for March and April

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Most visited posts on this blog from March 1, 2008, through May 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics:
March 2008 (10,309 visitors)

Why you should suck it up and learn to script
What every journalism student needs to know (now)
Catch-22 in journalism internships
WordPress as your Web authoring tool

April 2008 (11,233 visitors)

Catch-22 in journalism internships
Advice to journalism students: [...]

Better SEO for news sites, blogs

Friday, May 2, 2008

Mark Glaser interviewed some experts and came up with this list (see the full post for important details):

Get inbound links and link out as well.
Headlines and title tags should have key words up front.
Web addresses for your blog posts or articles should include key words.
Page descriptions should be unique or eliminated.
Highlight your best content on [...]

Summer hours in effect

Monday, April 28, 2008

Final grades are due this week, commencement will be held this coming weekend, and I’m about to go to Southeast Asia for two months.
Posts to this blog, therefore, are likely to be few and far between until late in June.
While I’m abroad, I’ll be keeping a trip blog here:  Trip Log: SE Asia.
Feel free to [...]

Newsroom training

Friday, April 18, 2008

I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.

Who are you calling a journalist?

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Many people have commented on the actions of Mayhill Fowler, who went to a fund-raising dinner for Barack Obama and later wrote about remarks Obama made there. (Today Jeff Jarvis commented on Michael Tomasky commenting about Jay Rosen commenting on the matter.) Much of the fuss revolves around questions about who is a journalist, when [...]