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Tampa Tribune Reorganization
Update: Shannan Bowen does a nice job summarizing the recent online conversation about this topic. The highlight? It is dominated by young journalists determined to do good work. I would like to thank...
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Len Downie’s Rules for Good Journalism
The former executive editor of The Washington Post laid them out recently in a speech at Harvard: 1. All journalists should accurately identify themselves. 2. Conflicts of interest should also be...
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N.C. Rising Dropout Rate: A Call for Media Partners
Next semester, I’m leading a group of students in a service-learning class at UNC-Chapel Hill that be using online reporting and publishing techniques to dig in to the story of North Carolina’s rising...
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Lecture: The Online News Audience
Before I let the students in my online reporting and editing classes touch any piece of technology or blurb their first blog post, I think it’s important to spend some time talking with them about the...
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Online Class Discussions and Twittering Breaking News
Things were a little out of rhythm all day today, with a weird snow storm that couldn’t decide whether it did or did not want to close down UNC today. The bad news is that I didn’t get a chance to have...
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How to Plan an Online News Project
If I had to pick only one difference between the mindset of print and online journalists, it’s the way they plan. Online journalists are more likely to have to collaborate with a large group, they are...
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When Everyone’s a Publisher, Who Will ‘Convene’ The Public?
Last week, Richard Hart of MDC, Inc., kindly came to speak to my Public Affairs Reporting for New Media class. He led us through an illuminating conversation about the nonprofit’s recently released...
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Advice to Future Magazine Editors
Contrary to what seems to be popular opinion, magazines have a strong future online, I think. But their future depends completely on the leadership and innovation of publishers and editors, as I told...
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Rerun Posts: Who Drives the Vision? Who Takes the Risk?
The question that keeps coming up in recent discussions about experimentation and fertile failure is this: Who will drive the vision and who will take the risk that journalism needs to get over this...
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Article Comments Are Alienated Experience
Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of virtual reality, once kindly said — I guess — that I often use when thinking about or speaking about online journalism: “Information is alienated experience.” A...
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The former executive editor of The Washington Post laid them out recently in a speech at Harvard: 1. All journalists should accurately identify themselves. 2. Conflicts of interest should also be...
View ArticleN.C. Rising Dropout Rate: A Call for Media Partners
Next semester, I’m leading a group of students in a service-learning class at UNC-Chapel Hill that be using online reporting and publishing techniques to dig in to the story of North Carolina’s rising...
View ArticleLecture: The Online News Audience
Before I let the students in my online reporting and editing classes touch any piece of technology or blurb their first blog post, I think it’s important to spend some time talking with them about the...
View ArticleOnline Class Discussions and Twittering Breaking News
Things were a little out of rhythm all day today, with a weird snow storm that couldn’t decide whether it did or did not want to close down UNC today. The bad news is that I didn’t get a chance to have...
View ArticleHow to Plan an Online News Project
If I had to pick only one difference between the mindset of print and online journalists, it’s the way they plan. Online journalists are more likely to have to collaborate with a large group, they are...
View ArticleWhen Everyone’s a Publisher, Who Will ‘Convene’ The Public?
Last week, Richard Hart of MDC, Inc., kindly came to speak to my Public Affairs Reporting for New Media class. He led us through an illuminating conversation about the nonprofit’s recently released...
View ArticleAdvice to Future Magazine Editors
Contrary to what seems to be popular opinion, magazines have a strong future online, I think. But their future depends completely on the leadership and innovation of publishers and editors, as I told...
View ArticleRerun Posts: Who Drives the Vision? Who Takes the Risk?
The question that keeps coming up in recent discussions about experimentation and fertile failure is this: Who will drive the vision and who will take the risk that journalism needs to get over this...
View ArticleArticle Comments Are Alienated Experience
Jaron Lanier, one of the pioneers of virtual reality, once kindly said — I guess — that I often use when thinking about or speaking about online journalism: “Information is alienated experience.” A...
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