11 December 2009
At least not starting out when your competition is big media, which still has money to burn. It struck me this summer (somewhere during year four of my adventures in journalism) that I needed to rethink how I was approaching things. I was still running around trying to do everything all on my own. I [...]
Posted in Making Money, New Media12 Comments
22 February 2010
Call it what you will, but I really believe what I’m doing here in the Midwest is Journalism pure and simple. Sure, it’s not the journalism that was and hopefully not the journalism that will be, but it’s journalism in transition and it’s exciting. Case in point was last Friday. I was asked by several [...]
Posted in Making Journalism5 Comments
13 May 2012
I love that the URL is facebook.com/GoesPublic and also the timeline image – an infographic – is nice. Overall, kudos to Wall Street Journal for this Facebook page.
Posted in New Media0 Comments
07 June 2011
What is the top journalism school in the United States in 2011? That’s a great question. The answer is going to vary depending on who you ask and what criteria they use to decide which university is the best. Personally, I still think Ball State University is one of the top 10 Journalism Schools in [...]
Posted in Journalism Schools6 Comments
25 March 2011
Great article… Photo Journalism as an Inexpensive Link-Building Tool When I evaluate a method of link-building, I consider cost per link to be an important metric. While I realize that cost per link is limited in that it assumes all links are equal, I think it’s good to consider cost per link when forming a long-term [...]
Posted in New Media7 Comments
21 July 2010
With the current revolution in technology and journalism, many journalism pundits are blindly advocating non-technical journalists learn programming and web development skills. Programming, as opposed to coding HTML or CSS, takes a considerable time commitment to learn and may or may not come natural to the average journalist. via 10k words h/t to Journerdism
Posted in JHope2 Comments
22 April 2010
On the day the AP Stylebook announced it would change the requirement that its users refer to online destinations as “web sites” to the more widely-used “websites,” I sent a message to a person named Justin LaBerge requesting a phone interview. He responded quickly saying that he was “about to go meet up with my [...]
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22 April 2010
Robert Niles has a write-up about teaching journalism students SEO more than AP. Go read the whole thing. Last week, journalists reacting to the Associated Press’s announcement that it would replace “Web site” with “website” in the AP Stylebook pushed the phrase “AP Stylebook” onto Twitter’s trending topics list. (FWIW, OJR’s style for the past [...]
Posted in Making Journalism, Making Money3 Comments
21 April 2010
Recent technological developments, particularly with regard to internet technology, have dramatically increased access to information and facilitated the proliferation of information sources. The need to instantly access this information and to allow the spread of digital information on the internet has eroded the capacity of professional journalists to create and disseminate news. A significant reason [...]
Posted in Making Journalism, Making Money6 Comments
30 March 2010
By Judith Snyderman Two military journalists behind an ambitious NATO International Security Assistance Force project to traverse Afghanistan in one month and file daily reports in words, photos and video recapped their experiences in a March 25 “DoD Live” bloggers roundtable. The Web-based project, titled “30 Days Through Afghanistan,” concluded, March 15. It was the [...]
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