Improving journalism education: Join us tonight!
Ryan Sholin was awesome enough to invite me to a Skype interview that was featured on PBS’s IdeaLab about tonight’s CollegeJourn.com chat (8-11 p.m. EST). If you don’t know about it, click here, then...
View ArticleThrowing social media in j-school curriculum isn’t enough
It’s late on Sunday night before my flight out to Boston. I’m going to attend the AEJMC Convention for journalism educators, and I will be on a panel on social media’s role in the future of journalism...
View ArticleEven more ideas for journalism in the classroom, courtesy AEJMC
From left: Moderator Geanne Rosenberg, Suzanne Yada, Sandeep Junnarkar, Dan Gillmor. Taken by Dan Kennedy: http://twitpic.com/crwn1 I came back from the AEJMC conference full of ideas. I think my panel...
View ArticleCollegeJourn’s global collaborative reporting project
The weekly CollegeJourn chats can generate some massive ideas. Like the Bring-A-Professor night last February, where we asked educators, professionals and students alike how they would like to see...
View ArticleJournalism students across the globe, here is your reporting assignment.
[UPDATE! Read everything you need to know about this project here.] In yesterday’s CollegeJourn chat, a group of student journalists produced a road map for our first global collaborative reporting...
View ArticleA boatload of good journalism opportunities and events in the Bay Area
Photo by John C. Liau for the SF Public Press, a news organization participating in Journalism Innovations III. I don’t really blog about Bay Area journalism-related events often, but there’s just too...
View ArticleTips for an awesome student newspaper experience
Before I even got into the meat of my journalism-school experience (read: the Spartan Daily, San Jose State University’s student paper), I spouted off a laundry list of advice for journalism students....
View ArticleHow our university newspaper used social media to find news and break it
A while back, Rachele Kanigel asked me to contribute to her textbook The Student Newspaper Survival Guide. She asked me how we at the Spartan Daily, San Jose State’s college newspaper, used social...
View ArticleCarnival of Journalism quick hit: The role of the university
This post is the first of mine in the Carnival of Journalism. And this one is my second. Go forth and be a part as well! I have written so much on the subject of journalism education, I wanted to make...
View ArticleCarnival of Journalism: How universities can fill information needs
This post is the second of mine in the Carnival of Journalism. The first is here. I had a media literacy course in community college. It was an elective. I liked it. It was cool. I don’t remember much...
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