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Robin Hutton on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons The best gift I can imagine from a software developer is a WordPress-like publishing and collaborating platform designed for doing journalism....
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In this month’s Carnival of Journalism Michael Rosenblum urges journalists to go into business for themselves: “We should arrange ourselves the way lawyers do, as limited partnerships. Then some of...
View ArticleThe reform should go farther than you reach
I was grading exams when Eric Newton of the Knight Foundation gave a speech to journalism educators May 11: Journalism education reform: How far should it go? I have just now read it. Perhaps I am a...
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Moving from “story” to “asset”
Two enlightening posts over the past couple of weeks: – Jonathan Stray’s “What is it that journalists do?” – Jeff Jarvis’s News articles as assets and paths clarify an urgent need in journalism...
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An experiment in journalism education from France
Le Monde has announced its own educational program designed to expand the diversity of its journalists. Rather than hiring from the ranks of college graduates trained in journalism, the respected daily...
View ArticleAgile curriculum revision
Curriculum revision used to be a chore undertaken once a decade or so, as faculty came and went and technologies and industry practices changed. Now the process is nearly continuous. Most faculty I...
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Yes, we hear you!
Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight Foundation, published another post in his series about journalism education this week: “Do universities hear the critics of journalism education?”...
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Journalism programs finding their niche
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation websiteIt’s fun to read about the new Brown Institute for Media Innovation (and drool a bit) over the thought of having resources to spend on...
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How should journalism schools respond to the merging of media and technology...
This image is from an advertisement for Seatwave, featured in an article in the Guardian in 2009, listing the “top 100 tech media companies”Last week in a talk at the Reynolds School, David Cohn,...
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Transforming the college media experience
Prototyping room at the d.school, Stanford University This month’s Carnival of Journalism delivers a rich conversation about the future of college media, full of excellent advice about what college...
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Advice to an educator
Working at a university is interesting. One spends a great deal of time with people who never age. To counter the angst this can occasionally cause, and to remind myself that I’ve arrived where I am by...
View ArticleThe teaching hospital metaphor, expanded version
As I’ve written elsewhere (Blueprint for Change: From the Teaching Hospital to the Entrepreneurial Model of Journalism Education), I think the metaphor of a ‘teaching hospital’ for journalism education...
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Design thinking is useful for journalists. Discuss.
Want to join the Carnival of Journalism conversation? Just fill out this simple form and join the #jcarn conversation on Twitter. Welcome! Here we go! This month’s Carnival of Journalism question: Have...
View ArticleThe innovative spark: This month’s Carnival of Journalism wrap
How might journalists spark more creative innovation in their work? Is design thinking a useful igniter for journalistic innovation? This was the focus of the latest Carnival of Journalism...
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#jcarn question: Measuring meaningful journalism
Boston Globe journalist Billy Baker told a story on Twitter about the impact of one of his stories. Lots of very smart people are writing about metrics for measuring engagement with content, topics,...
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Beyond content creation
Wireframe for Google Venture homepage, Braden Kowitz, Flickr, Creative Commons.This from Gerry McGovern today, emphasizing again that “content” means more than it used to, as the fluidity of...
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