Unlike that guy in the movie “The Graduate” who said just one word to Dustin Hoffman — “Plastics” — an MSNBC.com deputy editor had two words for journalism students:
Databases and Flash.
In fact, MSNBC.com’s Tom Brew told us he had been given those two words by Hal Straus, the interactivity and communities editor at Washingtonpost.com. [...]

When a longtime journalist comes in to speak to journalism students, you’re never sure what you’re going to hear. Some ramble on about their glorious stories, their coups and earthquakes. Others speak more from the heart, and we get a sense of how this profession insinuates itself under the skin.
Tom Brew, deputy editor at MSNBC.com, [...]

Journalism educators debate about what students need to know today. I have some ideas about that.
We insist, of course, on reporting fundamentals — news judgment, interviewing skills, fact checking, ethics, law. The need to master these remains strong.
All students should have basic familiarity with (basic) XHTML and CSS. That’s about 10 tags in XHTML. For [...]

The Rocky Mountain News Web site needs a “design producer.” I thought that was a pretty interesting job title — not a designer, and not just a producer (hm, story producer, news producer … design producer) to “work with our developers and producers to build innovative tools and applications.”
Sometimes these job ads seem to be [...]

Here’s a current job ad worth thinking about (notice it does not specify any prior experience):
News Producer, Overnight — Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Industry: Online/New Media / Job Duration: Full Time / Job Location: Arlington, Va.
Job Requirements: Washngtonpost.com, the Web site of The Washington Post, is seeking a news producer to work on the overnight shift.
Duties include:
Update and [...]

Here’s a great question: Does your newsroom or employer have a written policy governing the personal Web sites (and/or blogs) of journalists?
Meranda Watling is seeking answers in a discussion over at Wired Journalists. Hop on over and give her some answers.
Recently I heard from a young reporter that her employer (well, actually she’s on an [...]

My colleague who teaches (newspaper) editing asked me to guest-lecture in his class yesterday. He wanted me to speak about current online journalism practices.
As I guest-lecture in a number of classes in our college, I have to be careful not to always say the same thing and show the same examples. In this case, I [...]