There’s an early episode of “The Cosby Show” where Cliff’s daughter brings a new boyfriend home. He says that once he finishes high school, he wants to take a year to find himself. And Cliff responds, “In a year, you should be able to find yourself … and three or four other people.”
In the past […]
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Finding themselves
Blueprint for Gannett’s future
The Business Beat
Participants at the recent CICM new media workshop in Nashville listened intently to keynote speaker Jennifer Carroll. Carroll is Gannett’s vice president of new media content in the newspaper division of the company.
Carroll played a key role in the development of Gannett’s “Information Center” concept and was named Gannett corporate staffer of […]
New media skills = better job prospects
Attention all students!
If for no other reason, learn new media skills for increased employment opportunties. There is a sweet spot in the journalism job market right now for good journalists with multimedia skills. Demand, at least for now, outstrips the supply of good digital storytellers.
Angela Grant taught our video sessions at last weekend’s CICM […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gaining clips (and experience) through placeblogs
Lisa Williams of Placeblogger dropped a comment in an earlier post that somehow got caught by Akismet. But her point is such that I want to promote it to full post status:
Hey, one thing I’ve been thinking: Placeblogs offer a really unparallelled way for journalism students to get clips. Many allow contributions without even needing […]
Fisher follows up on AJC reorg
Doug Fisher has a lengthy post about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution shake-up that’s well worth a read. Money quote:
the time for tinkering is over. Totally new structures are needed.
Indeed. I’d say the same for college media. If we’re truly training the future of journalism, we need to be training them for the future of the news […]
The people as partners
Tish Grier writes about a move by a local TV news station to get rid of their paid new staff in favor of citizen journalism content. It’s something college journalists should keep in mind:
I’m sick of the hype that says citizen journalism is “all the rage” when only a handful of people across the country […]
Skill for new journalists?
I asked the room during my presentation yesterday who their writing heroes were. One student journalist (Michael Davenport from Waterloo) mentioned Cory Doctorow. Doctorow is the originator of a hugely popular culture blog (for lack of a better term) called BoingBoing. Marketing guru Seth Godin describe’s Doctorow’s work style thusly:
I sat next to Cory at […]
Advice from Rob Curley (the early scoop version)
Background: I sent an e-mail to the Poynter online news listserv a few weeks ago asking for advice from online veterans about how student journalists can prepare for the future, and how college media (and advisers) can help. The only response I have received so far was from Rob Curley. Curley is recently hired with […]
