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The Convergence and Society: The Participatory Web conference at the University of South Carolina kicked off with a session on convergence and citizen journalism.
First up was Thomas Baggerman of Capital University, who has looked at US TV stations application of citizen media.
His findings after looking at 103 TV websites confirms what other studies have shown. [...]
The ombudsman for PBS, Michael Getler, has stepped into the controversy over a posting on PBS Mediashift by NYU journalism student Alana Taylor.
In her post, Taylor talked about what she saw as the shortcomings at NYU over its approach to new media. The column provoked a stir at NYU and among journalistic circles online.
It was [...]
The Online Journalism Review has risen from the dead.
The new OJR was announced in a posting on the Knight Digital Media Center by Geneva Overholser, the new director of the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Annenberg suspended publication of the OJR in June as the school went through a major [...]
The Online News Association conference held in Washington DC brought together some of the brightest minds in digital journalism.
So as a journalism educator, I took advantage of the opportunity to pose the question to editors, professors and entrepreneurs - what do they want from journalism graduates?
The short video clips have been posted on PBS Mediashift. [...]
A student at New York University provides a glimpse of the challenges facing media courses in a piece for PBS Mediashift.
Alana Taylor, a junior double-majoring in journalism and history, makes a harsh assessment of the undergraduate journalism classes at the university.
His disappointment is palpable as she writes that NYU focuses on learning about how to [...]
Over at PBS Mediashift, I have looked at how to get ready for the start of j-school this week.
During the summer, here at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, we made a couple of significant changes. We cut back on the number of required textbooks, and instead added a good quality digital audio recorder, the [...]
In an article for PBS Mediashift, I looked at the challenges facing journalism schools in teaching technical skills without losing sight of the journalism.
This is a difficult area for j-schools as journalism becomes ever more interwoven with technology:
The challenges for journalism schools are two-fold. First, students need to be taught how to use a wide [...]
Kate Marymont, vice president of Information Center Content at Gannett, talks about her vision of reader-driven investigative journalism:
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Much of the discussion at the AEJMC annual conference has focused on user-generated content (UGC) and how journalists should adapt to this changing environment.
Jane Singer from the University of Central Lancashire is one of the leading researchers in this area. She talked about how online created a shared space, whereas print was largely [...]
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The attitude of two Chicago news sites to comments illustrates some of the differences between new and old media.
At a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on handling offensive comments, there were speakers from the Chicago Tribune newspaper’s website and from the online newspaper ChiTownDailyNews.org.
At the Tribune, registration is required to leave a [...]
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