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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…

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…

One U.S. journalism educator was less than impressed with his first visit to the annual conference of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. Steve Fox, a multimedia Journalism Coordinator…

It’s that time of year. Profs across the country are busy preparing their courses for the fall term and producing a detailed syllabus for each course they will teach. How many are willing…

Choosing the right journalism school or program is more challenging than ever, given the changes in the industry and the uncertainty about the future of journalism as we know it. This new media…

Teaching interviewing requires more than just giving students lists of dos and don’ts. Playing examples of television and radio interviews to illustrate the good and bad habits of interviewers is usually more…

One journalism educator is rewriting her lessons for the fall semester to include more straight talk for j-students and less emphasis on old arguments about the role of journalists in a democracy.…

New York University professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen led an online chat at Poynter recently to offer advice about to teach blogging and answer questions from educators about things such as how…

A very public disagreement between two Carleton journalism professors about journalism students played itself out on the opinion pages of the Ottawa Citizen this past week. It all began with a column…

Some journalism schools are adapting to the changing media world with major renovations to their curricula. They are updating their skills courses, teaching more multimedia journalism and offering courses to help the students…