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Teaching Online Journalism

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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, [...]

Spring break!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Please expect light posting this week.
If you have a WordPress blog, make a backup right now.
Richard Koci Hernandez’s excellent blog, Multimediashooter, was lost this weekend because of a hacker attack. It’s a loss to all of us in online journalism.

WordPress as your Web authoring tool

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I’ve been pimping free WordPress blogs as the way to get started online for journalist bloggers, journalism educators, and students for months now (ever since I migrated this blog to WordPress, in fact). Most people will be content (even happy) with a free blog hosted at WordPress.com. (Real geeks, on the other hand, can download [...]

Link journalism: Credibility and authority

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Scott Karp writes about “link journalism” and how it could have saved face for The New York Times in the recent case of using unnamed sources in a story about John McCain and a lobbyist:
… on the web, with its infinite space and connectedness, the Times could have added an important supplement to their own [...]

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 [...]

Advice from Orange County’s science journalism blogger

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Gary Robbins heard that a local jeweler had bought Albert Einstein’s wristwatch and put it on display in Newport, Calif. Robbins finished his reporting on the story by about noon that Saturday. Normally he would have held on to the story — not posting it on his blog at the Orange County (Calif.) Register Web [...]

Positive developments in Los Angeles?

Monday, February 18, 2008

Some highlights from a speech to the L.A. Times newsroom by Russ Stanton, the new editor, on Feb. 14, 2008 (thanks, Marco!):
Yesterday, we rolled out the first of our breaking news blogs, in Metro — L.A. Now — which is led by blogger extraordinaire Veronique de Turenne. And the first of our neighborhood pages will [...]