Posts under ‘Academics’

There’s lots of interesting discussion going on about the state of journalism education, much of it crossing the Atlantic. Read these posts from Andy Dickinson, Martin Stabe, Kevin Anderson, and Andrew Grant-Adamson in the UK, practioners and academics all. Then read this from Dave Lee, a student in the UK. In the U.S., of course, […]

Rich Cameron writes up some additional New Year’s resolutions for California community colleges. I think they could apply to all colleges.

Post first, print second
Be innovative
Forge alliances for additional content
Share
Blog
Students must pass their classes
Read his CNPA College Publisher article

The piece for the California Newspaper Publisher’s Association’s quarterly newsletter outlines some of the challenges facing community colleges […]

Quite a lineup at this event.
The New Media Lecture Series is part of a week-long multimedia training workshop for mid-career journalists sponsored by the school. Each presentation was Webcast live and is available as an archived QuickTime stream.
Quicktime vids available here.
I’ll be travelling most of the next two days, and blogging is liable to be […]

Tomorrow’s daily newspapers will likely have stories about one of the largest data security breaches in U.S. history, a database with 800,000 student records at UCLA. Here’s the university’s press release about the breach. According to The Lede, the NYT blog:
The amount of personal data held by universities often make them a particularly juicy target […]

Mindy McAdams wrapped up her series about making online journalism over the weekend. Here are the links in one convenient place:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

I’m grateful to Mindy for gathering this material into one place. While this information is good to encourage students who desire to be online journalists, it’s also helpful for students […]

Update: Fixed the link to the ppt.
Rachele Kanigel of San Francisco State, adviser to the Xpress, did a session yesterday on advising an online news site. She was kind enough to share her powerpoint slides. You can download them below. If you’re trying to convince your school to devote more resources to online story development, […]

I’m in Columbia, S.C., for the Convergence Media conference. I’m excited to present, and also to meet with some of the participants I’ve met from conferences past. Several of the folks on the program, including fellow CMA’er Vince Filak from Ball State, have convergence textbooks out on the market. I hope to speak to them […]

Continuing the conversation about blogging and journalism education, Rachele Kanigel and Rob Pongsajapan have some questions.

Promoting comments and other thoughts on training online journalists.

Wilson Lowery at the University of Alabama has set up a message board for people to discuss the future of newspapers. The question he has posed for What’s Next for Newspapers? is this:
Once upon a time newspapers held a central place in the civic and social lives of their communities. Today it’s no longer clear […]