By Mindy McAdams

Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “television” category

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 […]

Online journalists more optimistic than other journalists

Friday, April 4, 2008

Note to self: Use this March 2008 report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press for discussion in classes (see summary).
Overall, internet journalists have more positive impressions of internet-driven innovations than do journalists who work for national and local print, TV and radio news organizations. For instance, only about a third […]

Managing all the stuff contributed by the public

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

In a widespread breaking-news situation such as the recent fires in California, a lot of news organizations would like the public to send in photos, video and reports from the ground. A post at the Veeker blog describes how the Veeker platform made it easy for KNSD-TV (NBC San Diego) to manage 1,704 viewer-contributed pictures […]

Cool online internship

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The advertisement reads:
INTERACTIVE Help build our award-winning website. Assist with online community building, web research, interactive features, HTML coding, image/audio/video editing and writing articles and interviews.
The internship is at P.O.V. (Point-of-View), the public television series of independent non-fiction film and video. “P.O.V. films have won every coveted television and film award, including 18 Emmys, 11 […]

Writing for the Web: A guide for TV journalists

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Cory Bergman of Lost Remote tells us, step by step, How to Write for the Web:
On the web, you’re writing for the motivated reader. Users impatiently scan headlines for anything that jumps out at them, and once they find a story they like, they click it. Once they’ve made that decision to read a story, […]

How to save a newspaper

Thursday, April 26, 2007

A very fat issue of Nieman Reports came out a couple of months ago. I thought, yeah, I gotta read that … and put it off, and put it off. Well, today I started reading. You know what I mean. I have the table of contents open in Firefox. The titles are not very enticing, […]

Good stuff, bad stuff, and television

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Regina McCombs left this comment earlier this week:
… we have to be careful not to lump all the bad stuff with all the terrific stuff. The biggest problem with TV news is there’s too little of the good stuff out there, not that great storytelling can’t be done on television.
I have to agree with that: […]