Entries from January 2009

January 29, 2009

Skills and Knowledge EVERY Journalism Student Needs

The journalism department at the University of Memphis is in the early stages of updating  our curriculum to help our students build the knowledge and skills they will need in the new media world.  I would love to get your feedback as we embark on this project.
Currently, we have three news/editorial sequences:  newspaper/magazine, broadcast, and [...]

January 5, 2009

In 2009, Let’s All Be In This Together

Old media vs. new media. Tired, tired, tired.
I’m far from the first blogger/Twitterer to point out that it is getting old, but yet, it persists. New media folks love to congratulate themselves over how smart and cutting edge they are and to snuffle at those who just “don’t get it.” (The journalism Twitterverse was alive [...]