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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 “training” category

Two video examples

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Today’s AEJMC panel about video storytelling was excellent. Serena Carpenter of Arizona State did a great job of putting together a panel of four very different people — Chris Booker, multimedia producer at the Chicago Tribune; Steve Anderson, broadcast journalism professor at James Mason University; Bonnie Bucqueroux, formerly teaching at Michigan State, now running a [...]

5 tips for blog beginners

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Craig Stolz, formerly a journalist at The Washington Post, has been blogging for one year. On the occasion of his blog’s anniversary, he wrote this succinct list of lessons learned, which is rather brilliant:

A personal blog is as valuable to the writer as the reader.
Entry titles are as important as content. Titles should be [...]

Apply for Spanish-language course in online journalism

Saturday, July 5, 2008

A new online course, in Spanish, will focus on online journalism skills for current journalists. The class will take place entirely online and will cover these five areas:

Introduction to Journalism 2.0. Understand the opportunities and challenges of practicing journalism in the digital age.
Web 2.0 and an Eye on the Future. Learn how Web 2.0 [...]

Chet Rhodes talks about Washington Post video

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

From Beet.tv:

The reporters in the print newsroom are integrating video shooting into their normal, everyday storytelling, Chet says.

First day with Soundslides

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

The journalists in the training session here in Saigon have impressed me with their enthusiasm.

Have a look at this Soundslides created by Nguyen Tien Giang of the Saigon Times on Tuesday night. He recalled this photo essay by one of the newspapers reporters (yeah, not a photojournalist) and persuaded another colleague (one in my workshop) [...]

Before they can run, they must learn how to walk

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

I was recently reminded that not every person who uses a computer every day understands the instruction “Minimize that window.”
I watched someone hesitate for a really long time after I said that. Eventually I realized that I had to tell him how to do it, and even what it meant.
Now, don’t get all highfalutin and [...]

Newsroom training

Friday, April 18, 2008

I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.