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A site designed for high school journalism teachers with lots of great advice about everything from using a microphone and editing software to writing and interviewing for radio. It includes audio reports and interactive lessons.…

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.…

An article from Insidehighered.com about how journalism schools are falling behind and failing to adapt to the new media world. As a result, students are not learning the skills they need in the new multi-media world of online journalism. The…

An interesting blog discussion about what guidelines should be used to ensure fairness and accuracy when gathering and producing audio material to accompany multimedia stories online.…

This blog posting includes a link to a terrific step-by-step guide to Audacity — a free program that allows people to edit audio files for presentation online or on the air. The guide is courtesy of Mindy McAdams at the…

If you want feedback from students about your teaching or find out whether they understood aspects of a lesson or lessons and you don’t want to wait for the formal course evaluations at the end of the term, you might…

This is a site full of provocative ideas about newspaper layout and design from a Virgina-based design company. It includes lots of visual examples and thought provoking content.…

An interactive website rich with tips, advice and resources for educators and others interested in learning how to use Flash to create intereactive, multimedia content for news websites.…

This page provides links to the increasing number of podcasts available of CBC Radio’s most popular news and information programs.…

Ira Glass, longtime radio producer for National Public Radio talks on camera about the two most important elements in any good piece of journalism.…