There’s something vaguely familiar with the attitude in that comic; something I don’t quite understand — why do people continue to cling to the old ways and the dead trees?
Don’t get me wrong, change is scary. But what happens when people are afraid to try new stuff? We end up with ideas for broadsheet style [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘journalism’
July 9, 2008
People fear what they don’t understand
July 1, 2008
Rebuilding a Web journalism class from scratch
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As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I’m a recent graduate of Northampton Community College’s journalism program.
And I’ve also blogged about what I think of the journalism program at NCC. Quite frankly I think I’m lucky to get out of there with any idea of what online news could become.
So [...]
June 20, 2008
Why journalism is exciting, or how Web freedom makes me happy
Whenever someone asks me what I’m studying I cringe as I manage to squeak out the word — “journalism.” They freeze up, mention something about how they don’t read the newspaper or think the media is dying while criticizing me.
Here’s the kicker, I’m not cringing at journalism, I’m cringing at people who don’t know the [...]
June 16, 2008
Business desk internship at The Morning Call
I started my internship at The Morning Call right after Memorial Day. On my first day I wrote a story from a press release.
The story went over well enough, got some decent feedback from people that read it and know me personally. I enjoyed the rush of making phone calls and getting something ready for [...]
June 2, 2008
For journalism to evolve, look at biology
I was having a great conversation about evolution last week. Pretty standard fair actually: niche roles, adaptation, survival and speciation (wherein a subgroup chooses desirable traits that aren’t possessed by the larger population and once those traits are the focus interbreeding stops).
And then it hit me.
Journalism needs to evolve just like species do biologically. We [...]
May 22, 2008
Edirol-R09: The first thoughts
Today I graduated from Northampton Community College with my Associate of Arts degree in journalism. Now while all that may be exciting — just like my acceptance to Temple University so I can continue studying journalism this fall — the really exciting part came when I opened my Edirol R-09.
Yes, my ultra-geek tendencies took over [...]
May 22, 2008
The M-M-Max Headroom style of news distribution, or why journalists should work with Nokia’ US service to turn backpack journalism into back pocket journalism
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Awhile back I posted a photo of my mobile journalism kit where I mentioned I don’t have a smart phone. Nokia seemed to answer my prayers for the ultimate news reporting and mobile publishing tool with the N95, but I needed to be sure it would work before I dropped $500 or more [...]
May 15, 2008
Is shorthand necessary in a Web world or is it just a useful skill?
Last week I came across a post from Dave Lee about journalism and shorthand. He describes how learning shorthand is under debate in UK j-schools, where the skill appears to have a strong following. In fact one of the comments berates any journalist who doesn’t know a form of shorthand:
Anyone who thinks it is possible [...]
May 8, 2008
Multimedia reporting ethics
Today I ran across an issue I don’t see a lot of people discussing in regard to online journalism: reporting ethics.
Jim Killam’s last post over at the Innovation in College Media blog discusses the ethical issues of reporters that would produce both written copy and potential multimedia stories via the web.
A brief summary of the [...]
April 30, 2008
Old media attitudes can’t translate online
Today my web journalism class was “treated” with a guest speaker — Morning Call columnist Bill White. White’s been a columnist for a long time, and it shows.
While he writes both columns and blogs for the paper, there’s a definite preference for the printed product. He talks about regretting the personal elements in the blog [...]
