Here are 10 Tips on How to Save Your Job, especially if you work in a newspaper newsroom. Pay special attention to the bold italicized words, I guarantee that they will be coming to your newsroom soon, and those who use them will survive, those who don’t … well how are your grocery bagging skills?
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I spent a chunk of my weekend reading and thinking about the 96-page Newspaper Next: Blueprint for Transformation. Here is the good news, if Newspaper Next catches on, newspapers will be making money, time and resources available as catalysts for change. So if you are in a newsroom, get yourself involved and strive to make […]
This from a Knight Foundation press release:
A majority of high school students say they’re plugged into the news on the Internet at least weekly, and they are getting most of their news from Internet portals and mainstream media web sites - not from blogs, according to a new survey of 15,000 high school students by […]
This from a Poynter Institute post based on a Knight Foundation press release:
U.S. high school students know more about the First Amendment than they did two years ago, but they are increasingly polarized in how they feel about it, according to an update of a groundbreaking survey funded by the John S. and James L. […]
The Society for News Design has drafted a code of ethics. Kenny Irby gives background and there is a sidebar video of Society members providing their thoughts about the code and about ethics in general.
The code is preceded by this comment:
SND is drafting a code of ethics for visual journalism, and we want to hear […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.