Comments on: Students, get money to blog http://www.reportr.net/2007/09/06/students-get-money-to-blog/ This blog on media, society and technology is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sarika http://www.reportr.net/2007/09/06/students-get-money-to-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-149 sarika Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:21:20 +0000 http://reportr.wordpress.com/2007/09/06/students-get-money-to-blog/#comment-149 interesting post on one of mint's blogs in india on the relevance of shorthand in journalism. while UK still offers it and journalists are preferring to use in addition to digital recorders, schools in US have long ditched it and media schools in India too do not see much relevance in a skill that is associated with secretaries and typists of a bygone era. a good read and worth pondering over by those in the journalism/ reporting industry http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/11/20/building-a-case-for-the-humble-lowly-shorthand.aspx interesting post on one of mint’s blogs in india on the relevance of shorthand in journalism. while UK still offers it and journalists are preferring to use in addition to digital recorders, schools in US have long ditched it and media schools in India too do not see much relevance in a skill that is associated with secretaries and typists of a bygone era.

a good read and worth pondering over by those in the journalism/ reporting industry

http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/11/20/building-a-case-for-the-humble-lowly-shorthand.aspx

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