Salon.com offers some advice to journalism professors who may be feeling guilty about teaching students skills to work in a dying industry. The advice from Cary Tennis: “I do not think it is such a terrible thing that your journalism students are entering an uncertain world. It’s the kind of world that is ripe for…
Columbia University’s School of Journalism appears to be facing the same internal conflict about how, or even whether, to change its curricula to teach new media skills as so many other j-schools, including those in Canada. Some argue we can’t trade teaching core journalistic values and principles in favour of “playing with toys.” Others say…
Suddenly, it seems, everyone is twittering. Or, if they’re not, they feel they should be. Journalists who first dismissed it as a useless time waster are now seeing it as a good way to find sources, leads and breaking news. Journalism educators are scrambling to learn to use it well enough to teach their students to…
A list of nine sites where you will find some examples of the best photojournalism online today. The list can be found in this blog post, called Amazing Photojournalism: Where to find the best in news photography from the blog, 10,000 words. And, if you are looking for a list of good photojournalism sites, including Canadian…
This site is a series of comprehensive, step by step tutorials on the fundamentals of film and video production. It includes video clips, flash animations, and explanations. The site claims it is used by hundreds of schools, but there is a small fee for teachers to use it with their students in classes.
Today’s journalism students need to find new models to restore journalism to its former health. That’s what the new academic dean of Columbia University’s School of Journalism told the incoming class of j-students this month. Bill Grueskin, the former managing editor for news at the Wall Street Journal talked about current trends in journalism and warned that democracies…
Need some ideas about inspiring students in the face of the troubles facing newsrooms these days? Temple University professor G.W. Miller III makes a compelling case for why it’s never been a more exciting time to be entering the field. His ideas and passion might also inspire fellow j-teachers.
This simple tutorial for creating powerful, effective digital stories is a great resource for anyone involved with multimedia journalism.
Mitchell Stephens says too many journalism programs are dedicated to teaching the tried and true and too many journalism professors are determined to defend standard practices rather than try new approaches to encourage better journalistic methods, styles and approaches. Stephens, the author of The History of News and The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the…
This PBS site provides a 13-minute video on a Dartmouth professor, Hany Farid, who is developing news ways to help people detect photos that have been manipulated. After watching the video, the site then invites viewers to examine 9 photos to try to determine whether they are real or fake. After making your choice, an audio clip of…