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Stay home (or wherever you are) — and Go Online
Fall 2011 workshops Teaching feature writing – Lisa Gary, Oct. 9 – 12 Web conference: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m. ET Managing your news website – Jim Stovall, Oct 23 – 27 Web conference: Tuesday. Oct....
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The Newseum opens in Washington
Gannett’s splashy new monument to journalism, the Newseum, opened in Washington yesterday. For the most part, I think, the reviews are good. (Check out this interactive guide at USA Today. And here’s...
View ArticleWhat wasn’t covered
An interesting article on the Poynter.org web site gathers opinion from a number of journalism experts about the news media’s performance in 2005. One of the fascinating things about such assessments...
View ArticleThe public is paying attention
A new Harris survey, conducted in conjunction with the Public Relations Society of America, shows that the public pays close attention to the news and that many of the traditional news organizations...
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Covering Hurricane Katrina
The news coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath raised a number of important questions for the news media: how do you discuss race and poverty; should (and when) should journalists become...
View ArticleIs AP writing its own obit?
The Associated Press has announced that it will start charging news organizations for placing its content on their web sites in 2006. The AP — a cooperative owned by its members — has softened the...
View ArticleSlough of despond
William Safire, conservative columnist for the New York Times, has some excellent advice for the the journalism profession in his column today (Jan. 17, 2005). The news media seem depressed over the...
View ArticleOpen society
The concept of the open society is worth spending some time on. What does an open society mean? Students may want to talk about what part of society should be open and what should not. How freely...
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FoxNews and CNN viewers
This is interesting. The Pew Center (cited earlier) conducted a survey in October 2004 (in the middle of the presidential election campaign) in which it asked viewers of different news shows who they...
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Two major league sports journalists question the NFL’s existence
Times are tough for the National Football League. Concussions, racism, criminality, strokes and heart attacks, harassment — the problems keep piling up. This weekend, things got a little worse. Two of...
View ArticleNewswriting in the near future
Acceleration, with attention to accuracy, is the characteristic of news writing today. The speed of the Internet and the World Wide Web in disseminating information has forced editors and journalists...
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The web imposes new responsibilities on journalists
The web has imposed new responsibilities on the journalist – responsibilities that go far beyond those of the traditional print or broadcast reporter. Web journalists must report and write original...
View ArticleBad news
I am currently working with Edgenics.com to develop a new course curriculum for high school journalism. You will be hearing more about this project as we go along. Here’s a short audio slideshow on the...
View ArticleJN-21.com launched to help journalism teachers, students
JN-21.com is here. This site, a part of the Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN) and its subsidiary, the Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN, is devoted to building a new journalism...
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Get your website started with UT’s Going Online workshop
Getting started with online journalism has never been easier. That’s just one of the things you’ll learn at the Going Online workshop for journalism instructors on Monday, April 25, 2011 at the...
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Stay home (or wherever you are) — and Go Online
Fall 2011 workshops Teaching feature writing – Lisa Gary, Oct. 9 – 12 Web conference: Tuesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m. ET Managing your news website – Jim Stovall, Oct 23 – 27 Web conference: Tuesday. Oct....
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The Newseum opens in Washington
Gannett’s splashy new monument to journalism, the Newseum, opened in Washington yesterday. For the most part, I think, the reviews are good. (Check out this interactive guide at USA Today. And here’s...
View ArticleDesign: breaking the chains of habituation
Design is important, but not always for the reasons we believe. In the TED video below, Tony Fadell, the designer of the iPod, talks about the things that really make design something that innovators...
View ArticleSwag for SPJ’s Front Page Follies
For the past several years I have been asked (and honored to be asked) to provide some items for the silent auction for the Front Page Follies, the annual musical production of the East Tennessee...
View ArticleBlue Angels practice — over our pasture
These shots of the Blue Angels were taken from in front of my shop as they practiced for the Smoky Mountain Air Show this weekend.
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