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App Developers Contact Us for Journalism Grant Possibilities

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Hello all you app developers out there. We need your help and will help you try to get funding for ideas that work well for both you and us. Let’s make contact before Nov. 12, 2010 and then set up conversations on Friday Nov. 12 to move our ideas to the next step via possible [...]

Election Night Multitasking: CNN, NYTimes, NPR and Blogging Too

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

So it is election night, and I am listening to NPR on my iPhone, watching CNN, but mostly muted, on TV, and on my computer checking in at the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight.com and blogging here at PJNet.org…but just one post I think.
What’s all this multitasking mean? Well, I can get bits and pieces [...]

Future of High Quality Journalism Will Demand Great Talent

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

Just about three years ago, I made a pitch saying there was room and, indeed, a big need in journalism for students who want to specialize and not be a Jack or Jane of All Trades. My pitch focused on great nonfiction writing. I wrote:
My advice to the journalism student who wants to be [...]

Create Your Own Comic Strips

Monday, October 25th, 2010

I do believe it is time for some comic relief — or some cutting commentary or whatever else you want to express via comic strips. Here are six free sites where you can create your own comic strips.
Here is my first attempt and I have to tell you putting the characters together is [...]

Witt Video: Vivian Schiller Tells Why NPR Dropped Juan Williams

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

I attended the speech that Vivian Schiller, NPR CEO, gave at the Atlanta Press Club today and afterward got a nice video of her explaining why NPR terminated Juan Williams’ contract. It happened after he said on Fox News that when he sees people in Muslim dress on airplanes he gets nervous.
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