Category: Journalism
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Photojournalism as art, or not
Mannie Garcia’s Obama Image – Journalism as Art – NYTimes.com. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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What do journalism students really need today? Poynter event Monday — contentious.com
From Amy Gahran’s contentious.com blog: On Monday, Mar. 23, 1 pm EDT, the Poynter Institute will host a live online chat: What Do College Journalism Students Need to Learn? It was spurred by a recent (and excellent) post by my Tidbits colleague Maurreen Skowran, Reimagining J-School Programs in Midst of Changing News Industry, which attracted […]
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Why teach journalism if newspapers are dying? a Since You Asked column by Cary Tennis | Salon Life
So I do not think it is such a terrible thing that your journalism students are entering an uncertain world. It’s the kind of world that is ripe for enterprising journalists. It is the kind of world that needs to be reported on and explained. Leave it to your students to create new modes for […]
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Journalism Education Should Be Media Literacy & More
Dan Gillmor, writing in MediaShift Idea Lab, asserts (and I agree 100%) that: Journalism educators should be in the vanguard of an absolutely essential shift for society at large: helping our students, and people in our larger communities, to navigate and manage the myriad information streams of a media-saturated world. via MediaShift Idea Lab . […]
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Look, Teacher, No Prep…
Thanks to Jeff Jarvis, you can jumpstart your lecture on the impact of Internet on the news business. Good job, Jeff, and what a good idea to start sharing these kind of resources… Intj0808pdfhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=intj0808pdf-1219849884193191-8&stripped_title=intj0808pdf-presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: cuny journalism)
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Programming is journalism, at least in Norway
Kelley Vendeland in Editors Weblog writes about efforts in the Norwegian press to bring in the programmers, to the newsroom. Epsen Anderson is modernizing Norway’s public broadcasting through data-driven applications that make sense of complex information so that reporters can write more analytically about issues. Andersen, who regularly designs new technology methods for “doing journalism“, […]
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Twitter and Journalism in early 2008
Journalism consists of multiple activities, from the long form to spot news. These may require different tool sets, authoring styles, talents, etc. I want to address the journalism news function of reporting breaking news, from a fire to a press conference, to any live event. Key to reporting live events, is time. How immediate can […]
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Persistant theme: Why are J students so close-minded? Who instill that in them?
Rob Curley, Mid-western wonderkind of effective journalism in our world of constantly changing technology posted this question for J-schools. As a J prof who came to the field via multimedia, I am stunned by the close-mindedness of students and faculty. Why is it so? Amy Gahran took this up yesterday in E-media Tidbits, calling it […]
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From ONA listserv: zoned edition failures and what’s a newspaper?
From the Online News Association (ONA) listserv, comes this exchange between Steve Yelvington, a media strategist and Robin Miller a perceptive maverick tech and media smart-guy. Steve wrote:Rob, I’m curious about your 1980s research into zoned editions, and whyyou concluded they were not a good idea for the newspaper you wereworking with. Was it simply […]
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Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets
Journalists, writers, teachers, students who want to write will find this a good read. Academics discuss the MLA convention and the rocky relationship between journalists and academic writer/scholars. Inside Higher Ed :: Easy Targets This summarizes their gripes but gives you something to think and even write about Shumway argued that “reporters who cover academics […]
Barbara K Iverson 