By Mindy McAdams
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As I’ve been writing about j-school curriculum here this week, I’ve also been pondering methods that work well in teaching. This is my 10th year as a professor (crazy!), and like most college educators, I learned on the job.
The best way to learn is by doing. That’s what I’ve concluded, and I know it’s not [...]
I struggle with how to teach data reporting. I want to give the students an introduction to how to do it, and how to make it work online (conceptually, for the audience, I mean), but I only have four weeks. I want to make sure what I give them has a practical application, but I [...]
The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs.
All the information you need is here: [...]
This weekend I will be attending the National Writers Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ll be the guest of the South Florida Sun Sentinel; I’ll be doing some training in their newsroom on Friday.
Information about NWW is here. The schedule is here.
My session might be the ONLY one that’s not about writing. I’m going to [...]
A journalist is tweeting the closing arguments of a sentencing trial in Spokane — live. This is a capital murder case.
The newspaper’s Twitter feed is here. WARNING: Some descriptions and references relate to extreme violence. More trial coverage from The Spokesman-Review appears on a special Web page.
Journalists at The Wichita Eagle pioneered this kind of [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
Some lessons about how to write, how to report, and how to do video for online:
In conducting my iPhone research last week, naturally I consulted two of the better-known technology journalists, Walt Mossberg and David Pogue. I watched their video reviews of the product, and it made me think a bit about how journalists get [...]
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