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Jay Harris Gives First Cole Campbell Democarcy Talk

Friday, September 21st, 2007

This from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno:
ColeCampbell.info is the place where you can find information about the passions and beliefs held dear by Cole C. Campbell concerning the role of journalism and journalists in our democracy.
To honor and further Cole’s ideas, we have established the Cole C. Campbell Dialogue on […]

OffTheBus: Get Students Published Nationally

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Jay Rosen and the Huffington Post’s OffTheBus is a great way to get student work published nationally. Grayson Daughters, a student of life,  has helped produce a couple of grassroots videos –one Republican oriented, one Democratic oriented – for the project, and her work would give students an idea of one technical approach, albeit a fairly standard newscast format.
Students need not go […]

News21– A Look at the Future of Journalism Education

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Mark Glaser at MediaShift.org asked me to critique the student work at News21 2007, the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of  Journalism Education, as he did last year. Here is his story with some quotes from me, and my extended thoughts on News21 are below:
 
My first reaction to reading Faces of Faith in America was, my god, the central tenets […]

Reinventing Journalism at U of Nevada, Reno

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

David Ryfe, associate professor at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, points us to the school’s  graduate program entitled: Interactive Environmental Journalism.
The  program description includes this:
Our professional graduate program is an intensive 10-month immersion in thinking about, experimenting with and creating new forms of journalism…
We are focusing on Lake Tahoe and its surrounding communities […]

How Would You Run the Debates?

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

The New York Times posed an interesting question on its Op-Ed pages yesterday. It asked new-media gurus if they could run the presidential candidate debates:
What would a real new-media debate look like?
The Op-Ed page editors writing of the recent YouTube/CNN debate said:
…the format was still basically the same one that’s been used for nearly 50 […]

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