By Mindy McAdams
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Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults (source) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes.
What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online videos (source). Moreover, when the Pew Internet researchers looked [...]
I’m writing to highlight two excellent articles published this month about the international television news network based in Qatar:
Why I Love Al Jazeera, by Robert D. Kaplan (The Atlantic)
The Most Hated Name in News: Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism? by Deborah Campbell (The Walrus)
Al Jazeera English ought to be included [...]
This is a great resource: the Television Scripts portion of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, online for free, accessible by anyone. Check these sections:
Write to Pictures
Story Structure
10 Key Words Approach (this is great!)
What Is the Story? (also excellent)
Shooting Soundbites
I’m saying this from the perspective of a journalism educator who struggles to find good professional materials [...]
I enjoyed this post by Shane Richmond at Telegraph.co.uk, in which he discusses David Simon’s ignorance about the Web and online journalism: If ‘amateurs’ like David Simon can make The Wire, why can’t they do journalism?
Unlike some folks, I do love The Wire, the TV series about the mess most American cities are in because [...]
One of the hardest things to teach is how to tell a story. I could say “how to tell a story well,” but no, it’s simpler than that. Students just don’t get how to evaluate the pieces, how to hone and polish them, and how to arrange them in a satisfying way. So I’m always [...]
It’s probably only because I am a huge fan of the NBC-TV series The West Wing (1999-2006), but I felt a sense of déjà vu when I started clicking the hyperlinks embedded in this New York Times story about Obama’s newly named chief of staff.
By clicking through to the linked bios, I learned about Valerie [...]
Last night, David Simon appeared on The Colbert Report. Here is the episode. To go straight to Simon, click the controller bar at the 14-minute mark.
The Wire is a five-season series that ran on HBO. Not being an HBO subscriber, I am watching the series for the first time now, via Netflix DVD rentals — [...]
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