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 “multimedia” category

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, […]

The reporter’s audio gear list

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I saw this idea on someone else’s blog (I forget whose) and thought it a brilliant way to keep an up-to-date gear list that’s easy to share with others:
B&H WishList: Audio Gear (Mindy)
Please do not try to buy gear for me — it’s a “wishlist” for other people, not for me!
The one thing you can’t […]

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, […]

Testable, measurable skills we should teach in j-school

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Like a lot of j-schools, mine has been discussing updates to the curriculum. Much of that discussion concerns skills. So we ended up saying we need a list of skills. Then someone said, yeah, I’ve seen that kind of list, and I don’t know what some of that stuff means. If you say the students […]

Best multimedia packages judged by NPPA

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Just a quickie in case you missed –
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2008 Winners, Multimedia Packages
Some surprises! Go and look! (Zach Wise’s “Soul of Athens” — yes! MediaStorm’s “Black Market” — yes!)
Smart advice from the judges:
This was a difficult category for us to judge because each entry had a little of everything we were looking for, […]

Learning from MSNBC.com (part 1)

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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, […]

Essentials of a multimedia journalism package

Monday, March 24, 2008

I’ve been reviewing the final projects of a few of our journalism master’s students. Every year we have some students who produce an online package as a project in lieu of thesis; the project is supposed to represent an effort comparable to that required to produce a traditional master’s thesis.
We have a good idea what […]