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Google has taken a major step into becoming a publisher of news. It is now hosting news stories on its Google News site, rather than just linking to the websites with the material. The deal covers five major news services: AP, Agence France-Presse, the UK Press Association and the Canadian Press. Here’s an example of [...]
As a respite to all the recent exchange of verbal blows over blogging and journalism, this is a refreshing op-ed in The Guardian from co-founder of Salon.com Scott Rosenberg. He avoid getting into a fruitless debate about whether blogging is journalism and instead talks about how “from the dawn of blogging it’s been tempting for [...]
If you want to get an idea of skills journalists should be learning, check out Mindy McAdams’ new course at Florida, Journalists’ Toolkit. Over two terms, the course will look at how to use audio, audio slideshows and blogs in journalism, and later focus on video and other motion visuals. This is the sort of [...]
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19 Aug 2007Off for a week’s holiday. Normal service will be resumed on Monday 27 August. Thanks.
At last week’s AEJMC convention in Washington DC, New York University professor Jay Rosen talked about the philosophy behind his influential blog PressThink. Rosen explained how blogging was ideal for the diffusion of ideas as you can, in his words, “etch yourself into the memory of the web”. What he means is that, for example, [...]
One of the more interesting speakers at last week’s annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication was Dan Gillmor. During a panel on citizen media, he talked about the need to accept failure as a learning process. Gillmor is speaking from experience, having being behind the failed Bayosphere site.
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference brings together academics from all over the US and beyond to present research, discuss trends and network with colleagues. The hotel lobby is full of people with laptops, as the wifi is free there but paid for in the rooms. But as J D [...]
I’m at the AEJMC conference in Washington DC this week. This is the time of year when educators in journalism and mass communication get together to present papers, share experiences and generally discuss the state of education. With simultaneous panels taking place back to back, there is little time to report back on the sessions [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.