Bob Stepno, who has been way ahead of the curve in a lot of areas of online journalism, is leaving the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to take a position at Radford. Too bad UT-K couldn’t pony up the tenure-track position to keep him there. Knoxville’s loss is Radford’s blessing.
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The problem with pre-roll advertisements: now is not the time
Update (4-18-07, 9 p.m.): Another example is in this AP video of the newly released “multimedia manifesto” by the VT killer, which features a 15-second Microsoft ad. Sorry, MS - now is not the time, this is not the video for pre-roll ads.
Yahoo! News has video from the Virginia Tech shootings, including this video of […]
WaPo’s Mark Whitaker to future journalists: Go Digital!
The Business Beat
At the recent College Media Advisers conference in New York, students had the chance to listen to Washington Post - Newsweek Interactive VP, Mark Whitaker. In his 40-minute speech, Whitaker outlined five pieces of bad news, five pieces of good news and ended his talk with what journalism students should do now.
In […]
Scoble throws a bomb but facts contradict
Robert Scoble is a talented blogger and former Microsoft employee. He knows stuff. But he’s getting a lot of publicity today for his assertion that Newspapers are dead. That’s fine. It’s his opinion. But he makes at least one claim that is - quite frankly - difficult to back up. To wit:
How many future journalists […]
Experts to students, “Adapt Now”
The Business Beat
New York
CMA and CICM sessions
“Want a promising career in media? Get digital. Want to hand me five clips and expect a good job? I won’t even talk to you.” ………Paul Conley
I promise to stop whipping this dead horse as soon as more students and advisers start to hear what we are being told […]
Moving, again - this time to the Midwest
It’s official. I’ve signed a letter accepting a job offer from Eastern Illinois University’s Department of Journalism. Beginning this fall, I’ll be a tenure-track assistant professor, charged with heading up the new and emerging media concentration and advising the online site dennews.com. It’s an exciting opportunity, but a little intimidating as well. I’ll be working […]
Student journalists strike for unpaid wages
The Business Beat
The incomplete story from Tallahassee.
An editorial about the strike in the Famuan Online.
* Accessing the Famuan online requires registration. Ugh.
College journalists should own multimedia tools
Mindy McAdams thinks college students who want to become multimedia journalists should own their tools. I say that’s a pretty good idea.
This is similar to what I wrote in October (What every student reporter should have) from a college media organization perspective. I realize it’s somewhat problematic to do, but college media outlets should be […]
The trinity of skills?
Ryan Sholin compares notes with a photojournalist/multimedia specialist and comes up with this gem of an excerpt:
The task for j-schools, of course, is to teach every journalism student at least ONE of the following skills:
Multimedia: Video and audio recording and editing, plus any Flash skills at all. This gets you hired.
Interactivity: Know everything about blogs, and […]
New journalism heroes?
UPDATE: Be sure and check out Mindy McAdams’ additions to the list.
Martin Stabe asks for journalism schools to give journalism students new heroes to replace the old standbys of Woodward and Bernstein.
Unfortunately, I think those new heroes will only come with hindsight. The digital change in journalism is still taking shape. And I think there […]
