We’ve reached the point where having journalism students take one isolated class about “online journalism” is not sufficient. #

Ideally, online reporting and editing skills (and associated ethics) would be integrated into every reporting and editing class. If that’s not happening, then your program will need to offer specialized courses. Here are a few guidelines: #

The journalism department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks will soon have more reporters in Iraq than many major American newspapers. #

Three undergraduate students and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq, where they will spend nearly a month embedded with U.S. troops. They plan to eat, sleep, and travel alongside members of an Alaska-based Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while filing daily articles for news organizations and for their student newspaper, The Sun Star. #

The Washington Post on Wednesday is unveiling a new mobile version of its Web site as it seeks to catch up to the competition in the mobile arena and exploit a rare area of promise for newspapers.

NYT's time wasting interactive graphic on time management.

"Blogging remains a place where people can put forth ideas and insight, unfettered. But as a place for conversation and the pursuit of knowledge? Its use is limited, which is fine. Different jobs require different tools."

Doug writes: "The publishing industry seems to think it is going to force people to do its bidding. No longer. They are like water and will seek their own level. Very little of what we do is so essential to running their lives that they could not survive with only a digest."

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.