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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 “wikis” category

Wiki journalism: If it works, use it

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Paul Bradshaw, a British journalist and educator who blogs at Online Journalism, has spent a good amount of time and effort on a fine analysis of “wiki journalism.”
Not all wikis are journalism — of course! — but wikis can be used to produce journalism. Witness the recent example of Wikipedia during the Virginia Tech shootings:
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Students’ Use of Wikipedia

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

In Wikis test students’ research skills, Roger Riddell writes that the increasing use of Wikipedia and “similar online reference tools” is adding urgency to the need to educate people about how to judge the accuracy and reliability of Web information.
Wikipedia got a black eye last year when John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Robert Kennedy […]