You can follow my students as they develop their newswriting and reporting skills on our class blog. We’ve just gotten started by putting up some bios thus far. This is the first class University of Memphis students take where they start learning the basics of doing journalism, so we will mostly be practicing writing a [...]
Entries from August 2008
August 28, 2008
A Very Useful Resource
Many of you have seen or heard about this already — Amy Gahran at Poynter’s E-media Tidbits has also highlighted it in her posts — but I just wanted to be sure to mention an extremely useful study by the Pew Research Center for People and Press about changing news habits. This can help you [...]
August 17, 2008
Turning the Web 2.0 Corner
Today’s post is also brilliant. And again, I didn’t write it. I see a pattern here.
My friend Jeremy Littau, who is also finishing up his PhD in journalism at Mizzou, taught online journalism to Master’s students this summer. Jeremy recorded weekly “video chats” and uploaded them to You Tube for students, and one week he [...]
August 13, 2008
Journalism as Conversation
Changing Newsroom is back after a brief hiatus! I’ve moved to Memphis and am gearing up for the start of the semester, and as thus am hoping to start posting more again.
Today’s post is brilliant, if I do say so myself — cause, well, I didn’t write it. This guest post comes to you [...]
