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 “radio” category

Audio ethics guide: Editing and more

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

My friend Mary McGuire, who teaches online and broadcast journalism at Carleton University, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada), has posted a wonderfully clear and concise list of guidelines for editing audio that all journalists can use. Bookmark it now!
In it, she answers questions that I am asked every time I teach journalists (or […]

Storytelling, Ira Glass and a few thoughts

Thursday, March 22, 2007

I finally had a chance to watch these videos of Ira Glass, of This American Life, and I’m quite sure my journalism students can learn a lot from them. If you’re trying to make stories using audio or video, you should watch them.

Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 (5:23)Forget how they taught you to write stories […]

Making a good thing even better: NPR

Friday, February 16, 2007

Jeff Jarvis wrote about how to improve NPR. Not the content, but the organization. He’s got some excellent ideas.
I love NPR’s programs. I wish they were on a radio station that interspersed new and diverse music with their stories. But like many NPR affiliates, mine is all day classical and (retch) opera. So I listen […]