Cardiff University has an interesting site that provides a nice example of how to package a journalism course and display student work online. It was part of a postgraduate course.
It is a fun site to click about and it is also a good place to see what students are capable of doing.
The students research, write, [...]
Chris Peck, editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, has an excellent letter at Romenesko. It grows out of the Journalism that Matters conference we all attended in Memphis. He writes:
Honor four rules of engagement as everything changes in the media world. Those four commitments to 21st century journalists boil down to these:
A commitment to create [...]
The first line in the Nieman Reports essay by Craig Newmark floored me. His site, craigslist.org, has more than five billion page views each month. He started it all from scratch. So when he gives advice to newsrooms, it is probably a good idea to pay attention.
In defining his craigslist he writes:
Penelope Green, writing in [...]
Is Brightcove the YouTube for high end content producers? It seems staid to me, missing the frenetic feel of YouTube. Maybe this quote from Brightcove’s founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire at MediaShift explains why:
We wanted to design a distribution platform that was built with the needs of content owners and media businesses in mind – [...]
Pocket Picks is in an interesting UK site for folks who want to watch what’s cool in the mobile phone market. Of course, newsrooms which want to reinvent themselves should be watching what’s happening in the mobile world.
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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.