Tag: Journalism School
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Teaching Online Journalism: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism
Must-read comment thread with lots of J-School students weighing in. Very depressing how few get it. Job security is nice and all, but I could use a hand, kids. Teaching Online Journalism: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism
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UCSB student president vetoes newspaper punishment – AP via Mercury News
Free speech and student-government business policy butt heads here, and free speech wins by a nose. UCSB student president vetoes newspaper punishment – AP via Mercury News
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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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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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Fragments of Mine
One of Mindy McAdams’ students at UF. Always fun to watch an undergrad ‘get it’ one blog post at a time. Fragments of Mine
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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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Questions for student media advisers
Bryan Murley posted his responses to what Rob Curley said a day ahead of schedule, having been scooped by his source — a common problem when using bloggers as sources, for those of you taking notes. He brings up some crucial questions for student media advisers. Yes, this means you. “When you critique the paper…
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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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Must-read post for journalism school students and faculty members – YES, YOU.
Mindy McAdams, online journalism prof at the University of Florida, writes this plea to J-Schools: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism. Highlight: “If a student in a j-school today thinks it is okay NOT to learn how to make Web pages, NOT to shoot video, NOT to gather audio, NOT to read and write…