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Looking for ideas about how to teach j-students to use social media in their reporting? Here’s a list of ten ways some j-schools are doing it from Mashable.com.

CBC News wants to attract younger viewers with its recent relaunch, but as Carleton broadcast journalist instructor Marilyn Mercer found out, many of her students don’t have TVs or cable subscriptions.

Prosecutors in Illinois have subpoenaed the notes, email messages and even grades of students involved in an investigative reporting project. For years journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism have been attracting attention for investigative reporting exercises which proved several people were wrongfully convicted and lead to the release of 11 inmates. Now state prosecutors want details…

After covering the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, CBC video journalist Sasa Petricic went back with a very different mission. Laxmi Parthasarathy spoke with him in Rwanda about teaching TV journalism to working journalists in “the land of a thousand hills.”

A very gifted, very tech savvy and very generous multimedia professor has produced a 42-page guide to basic mutimedia skills for young journalists and made it available for anyone to download free, use and share as long as it is attributed to her. Mindy McAdams teaches multimedia journalism at the University of Florida and writes the very helpful blog Teaching…

Teaching j-students to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked In and You Tube, is something most j-schools are beginning to try, or at least consider. For those looking for guidance about how to do it, two Columbia University professors have generously posted a course outline, complete with links to resources and examples, as a…

Learning to identify stories, find sources, interview, take notes and write isn’t enough, writes Carleton journalism prof Dave Tait. A teacher’s job is also to show novice journos how to accept anxiety and move past it.

One of the best sources of advice, links and lessons for anyone who wants to teach themselves or others to be better online journalists is the blog, Teaching Online Journalism, by Mindy McAdams, a journalism professor at the University of Florida. Now, she has produced a one-stop shop online with a short but valuable collection…

You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different sites online. One journalism instructor in New Jersey has pulled several key tutorials from different sources together in one helpful blog post. Mark Berkey-Gerard says based on his course…

Professors can’t lecture about the future, says Tim McGuire, who holds a chair in the business of journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. But he plans to teach his students this fall about the business models of media and how the tension between producing quality journalism and making a profit might shape…