As educators struggle to cram more into the journalism curriculum, journalism history courses are easy targets for elimination or reduction. Yet Carlin Romano argues journalism history should be required of all journalism students, along with comparative journalism and philosophy of journalism courses. Despite the sure disagreement with this recommendation, I think he's right. Here's why: ...
I walked up to the imaginary doctor and interviewed him using my Evernote (btw, you need this if you're a journalist, not just for iPhone) voice recorder. He told me Michael Jackson was in critical condition. When I hit save on Evernote, it automatically uploaded the sound file to the web. Annie has access to my ...
It irks me that our industry is currently having a debate about who the customer is; readers or advertisers. The above Harvard Business blog talks about finding out how people read, something I’ve been whining about for a year now. A very anthropological, anti-focus group approach is what he suggests. I’d agree. Annie points out that ...
In imagination land, we'll partner with Comma Coffee, a locally owned coffee shop in Carson City. We'll go with the original idea, where Swift partners to put Nevada Appeal newspapers and a Nevada Appeal reporter in the coffee shop almost all day. We have Online Community Managers (OCMs), so let's say it's one of those ...
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So let's get this straight: Only teens don't like frustrating, hard to use websites, only teens don't like irrelevant, useless information, only teens don't like liars and only teens want to use information they find for more than personal knowledge? I don't understand how the website suggestions are any different than how anyone at any age ...
Capitalize on this focusing point right this second. Do not wait for people to forget you screwed up. Move forward NOW! There are points in history where the world or a group or a culture pay attention to something and change quickly. They are called paradigm shifts. This is one of those opportunities. Take everyone's advice. ...