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 “journalists” category

Move your journalism beyond writing

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Early last week, someone added an old post from this blog to StumbleUpon. It garnered about 200 pageviews that day, making a little spike in my site traffic report. The post was from December 2006, and I didn’t even remember writing it.
Everyday journalism, on the job
I wrote about how a reporter would do her job […]

Advice from a young online journalist

Thursday, June 26, 2008

In the midst of layoffs and announcements of newsroom downsizing, I continue to receive good reports from former students who are working in online journalism. They’re not always doing the work they could be doing (and should be encouraged to produce), but they’re not scared of losing their job tomorrow, either.
This one comes from a […]

When journalists go to jail

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Some Vietnamese journalists have asked my opinion about the arrest and detention of two of their own.
Nguyen Viet Chien, 56, a reporter for Thanh Nien, and Nguyen Van Hai, 33, reporter for Tuoi Tre, were jailed last month, according to the Vietnam Journalism site. VietNamNet reported that the two will be in “temporary detention […]

Mobile journalism: What’s in your backpack?

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Student and journalist Jared Silfies dumped out his backpack and showed us the things he carries for mobile reporting.
I love his photo! I would enjoy seeing more like it. What do you say — can you post a picture for us, and give us a gear list? Just post it to Flickr if you don’t […]

Journalists just like you are doing it, doing it

Friday, April 18, 2008

I had nine newspaper reporters and one designer in an audio training session today. They were real troupers! I was impressed by their good attitude and enthusiasm. I think a lot of journalists are stepping up and getting ready for our future.
I’m inspired by posts like this one and this other one from Ron Sylvester, […]

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 […]

Take a break and learn some new tricks

Saturday, April 5, 2008

“Want to step away from the daily deadlines and learn new ways to tell powerful visual stories? By combining the best of public affairs reporting with the latest in technology, the Kiplinger Program gives journalists the time and training needed to report and produce in-depth multimedia projects. We offer two types of fellowships […]