Teaching Journalism
Sep 24, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
"Hyperlinks not only can help provide informative context to information within a story, they also can help keep a story alive long after its original publication," says Robert Niles at OJR.org. Here he outlines how newsrooms can make better use of this old-school web tool.
Sep 04, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
It's a challenging course for graduate students at UC Berkley's School of Journalism about the new practices that are redefining journalism. Students are told they will learn about major new trends in online journalism; become fluent in a variety of digital media forms, creating blogs, as well as database-driven news “mashups; and work on a collaborative online news site. It is taught by two instructors with impressive new media experience whose course outline includes their weekly plan for classes and links to online readings and resources that anyone teaching online journalism is certain to find useful.
Aug 23, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
This website includes links to a few short, effective tutorials about such things as using RSS readers, DIGG basics, blogging and alerts that online journalism students are bound to find useful as part of any lesson on new online tools. They are produced by an online marketing firm and public relations firm, but don't let that stop you from watching them. Check out the site for other links to useful tools for journalists, too.
Aug 22, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
If you are teaching a journalism course about blogs, or using blogs, you may find this list by Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU helpful. It is an initital list of blog postings (with links) that have revealed information that served the public good before the information appeared in the mainstream media. He has invited others to send in other examples to make the list more complete. It is all part of his response to a column in the LATimes about how blogs are useless and unreliable.
Aug 21, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
An instructor who took on the challenge of teaching a senior workshop in online journalism at a university in Texas outlines how he tried to ensure the focus remained on journalism and not skills training and reflects on the lessons he learned.
Aug 20, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
News21 is a project sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight Foundations in the U.S. in which specially-selected journalism graduates were challenged to produce a journalistic package about Faith in America in ways that push the boundaries of how online journalism is produced. For anyone looking for new ideas about what's possible online, this site may provide some inspiration.
Aug 16, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
A training module from the Gannet Corporation, a leading newspaper company in the U.S. designed to help newsrooms understand how and why they need to change their ways and put online news first. It includes tips on writing like a wire reporter and videos from editors about why online news matters to the future of newspapers.
Aug 14, 2007
- Posted by Mary
McGuire
Poynter's Chip Scanlan has started a new series called the ABC's of Online Journalism. In this, his first column, he describes his views about when and how links should be used in online news stories.
Jul 03, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
This tutorial on setting up a website's information architecture (IA) still holds up as a great reference for site construction. It was created by John Shiple, a web consultant in California who specializes in information architecture, collaborative system strategies and advanced user interfaces for Internet-based content.
Jul 03, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
Kristian Strøbech, an Associate Professor at the Danish School of Journalism and the instructor of "Online Journalism & Multimedia Storytelling," gives an in-depth account of her class's project on reader interactivity. The project -- setting up a website to cover the hometown soccer team -- revealed how a live audience dialogue can be a great motivator in a training excercise as well as a useful source of inspiration and knowledge.
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