As I follow the continuing discussion about the so-called death of Flash, the changes HTML5 will certainly bring, and what lies ahead for journalism, I find myself asking these questions:

Of all U.S. Internet users, what percentage will be carrying an iPad two or three years from now? (Note I said carrying, not merely owning.)
Of all [...]

Carrie Brown-Smith is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. Last month she posted a first draft of a syllabus for a college course about social media. I took a look at it today, and I suggest you do the same.
Ultimately, this course hopes to foster the meta-skill of applying the [...]

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) has put out a very simple list of social media guidelines for its journalists and staff to follow:

Do not mix the professional and the personal in ways likely to bring the ABC into disrepute.
Do not undermine your effectiveness at work.
Do not imply ABC endorsement of your personal views.
Do not disclose [...]

I’m referring, of course, to “real-time Web” and “augmented reality.” The second such terms hit the mainstream press, we are likely to be bombarded by them for weeks or even months. A Time magazine cover story is probably in the works. (Or have they already done it? I haven’t seen a Time cover recently.) Jon [...]

Thanks to María Elena Brizuela, a journalist and journalism educator based in Córdoba, Argentina, the Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency has been translated into Spanish. Muchas gracias, Elena!
UPDATED! This is now the complete 15-post version (Sept. 8, 2009).
Download the PDF here (600 KB).
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Today is the day I reached the 1,000 milestone — I’m not sure how important this is, really, but it did give me a small thrill. (Very small.)

If you want to jump on the bandwagon, I am macloo on Twitter. A fine young journalist named Chris Deary was No. 1,000.
If you’re still skeptical about Twitter, [...]

The events in Mumbai, and news coverage thereof, have got me thinking about big news events I remember having a significant impact online, or via online reporting. Maybe these are milestones in the evolution of news reporting.
April 19, 1995: American terrorists (not Muslims) bombed a federal government building in Oklahoma City (168 people died and [...]