Year: 2006

Useful stuff for my research… MediaShift . Your Take Roundup::Newspaper Blogs Must Break Social Control of Newsroom

Eat The Press | The Huffington Post

Jun 9, 2006

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It’s all about the media. Lots and lots of it. Good stuff, too. Eat The Press | The Huffington Post

Does your college newspaper cover the blog beat?

Jun 9, 2006

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in Education

Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media lays out some instructions for covering the campus blogosphere. I think it’s a good idea, but I look at it another way: Reading blogs written by students, faculty, and alumni should be a way to find story ideas — not necessarily a beat in itself — unless, of course,…

News Reporter – Bay City News Service

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“Pay is $440 to $550 per week, based on experience, plus company-paid benefits including health, vision, dental and life insurance.” News Reporter – Bay City News Service

How to report a news story online – OJR

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A quick overview of different methods evolving in online journalism, including “open source reporting” and more traditional CAR. How to report a news story online – OJR

SimplePie: Documentation » SimplePie Plugin for WordPress

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Useful RSS parsing for posting content from elsewhere on a WordPress blog (or whereever). SimplePie: Documentation » SimplePie Plugin for WordPress

Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?

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in Media

Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section: “We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing…

Computer assisted reporting 2.0

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in Education

Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum. Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that…

New little camera is impressive

Jun 7, 2006

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