Tag: journalism
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Advice for paranoid reporters. By Jack Shafer
“The modalities of language are such that your source can tell you valuable things without actually saying them, which means he’ll be able to defeat the polygraph at Langley (if it comes to that)…” Advice for paranoid reporters. By Jack Shafer
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Colin Rhinesmith » Citizen Media Series Part III “Engaging With the News”
Good roundup of a Dan Gillmor talk last week at the Berkman Center, including lots of links to sites any J-School student or prof should see. Colin Rhinesmith » Citizen Media Series Part III “Engaging With the News”
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CBS News Blog – Outside Voices: Dan Gillmor On The New Principles Of A More Diverse Media Ecosystem
“The search for objectivity makes some sense in a media ecosystem that lacks diversity. If a few voices overwhelm all the others, there is a public interest in playing stories as allegedly down the middle as possible…” CBS News Blog – Outside Voices: Dan Gillmor On The New Principles Of A More Diverse Media Ecosystem
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Northwestern J-School dean takes the long view
In this Q & A, John Lavine lays out “Medill 2020,” a plan to develop the Medill J-School at Northwestern University. Medill seems to be doing all the right things: Planning to get students out of their silos and into classes that teach them storytelling, ethics, and basic journalistic principles, regardless of their medium of…
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A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan
The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…
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A quick riff on objectivity
I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back. But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides…
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Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU
Podcast and PowerPoint from a conference last October. Profs from BYU explain how and why convergence didn’t work so well at their J-School. Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU
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Albert Merriman Smith
Wild Merriman Smith stories about breaking the JFK assassination story over a 1960s car phone to the UPI wire while the AP reporter in the back seat was freaking out. Albert Merriman Smith
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CJR January/February 2006 – The Next Generation
A slice of the high school journalism life. CJR January/February 2006 – The Next Generation
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So who do we lock in the room with a whiteboard and a laptop…
…to figure out the answer to the $4.5 billion question: “What’s the new business model for newspapers?” At last night’s Who Needs Ink? panel discussion, everyone punted on that question, but Jerry Ceppos (to my delight) again insisted that newspapers need to stop screwing around and devote a large chunk of their staff to the…