Tag: Education
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Journalism students need new heroes; Journalism heroes need new students
This week’s running conversation between Mindy McAdams, Bryan Murley, Howard Owens, and Ron Curley, among many others, boiled over into the U.K. media blogosphere, and I’m finding myself alternately cited, enlightened, and humbled.Let’s start with some enlightenment from a 19-year-old journalism student at the University of Lincoln, UK: Dave Lee. Lee read Martin Stabe’s follow-up…
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Newspaper blogs appear to be hitting the takeoff point, if they haven’t already
It appears to be time for me to get back to doing some preliminary data gathering for my thesis in my spare time: Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec.-study (via Reuters) “Blog pages accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in [December 2006], up from 4 percent a year earlier. Total…
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ICM Interview: Howard Owens – Innovation in College Media
Good advice from Howard Owens: “Every student journalist should spend at least six months totally immersed in blogging. Start a blog and try to draw an audience.” ICM Interview: Howard Owens – Innovation in College Media
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Don’t get wrapped up in the ‘so-called pajama media’
In this wide-ranging interview with Bryan Murley of Innovation in College Media, Gatehouse Media’s Howard Owens points out what I battle through in conversations with both journalism school faculty and students over and over again: ICM: Which leads a little bit into my next question … The online media universe has been changing dramatically over…
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The conservatism of journalism students – Martin Stabe
“Journalism isn’t about printing newspapers or broadcasting television programmes. It’s about stories — and finding the best way to tell them. So I have no idea where this romantic attachment to the printed word comes from.” The conservatism of journalism students – Martin Stabe
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More advice from Rob Curley
If you’re an aspiring young (or not) journalist and you don’t have the good sense to pay attention to what Rob Curley says, I sort of feel sorry for you. That’s the truth, harsh as it may seem. Whenever guys like Curley or Holovaty or anyone else speaks up who has taken online journalism and…
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The Emperor’s New Tags « New Media in Journalism
SJSU J-School student Andrew Venegas refines his manifesto/plea for, more or less, an online journalism major. Looks like I don’t have to post one this semester. The Emperor’s New Tags « New Media in Journalism
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Teach blogging at UNC j-school
While SJSU is discussing watering down its only undergrad New Media class, UNC is hiring a prof who “should be highly skilled in writing and editing online news, in blogging and in developing news content for the web.” Teach blogging at UNC j-school
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Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging – New York Times
“At Towson University, outside Baltimore, the president, Robert L. Caret, who writes Bob’s Blog, appears online in sunglasses, casually unshaven and smiling gamely alongside the Towson Tiger mascot.” Don Kassing, are you jealous? Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging – New York Times