Teaching Online Journalism » Testable, measurable skills we should teach in j-school Lots of useful suggestions for J-schools (tags: education journalism training)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net gains and pains for journalism “The scale of the changes in the practice of journalism and the economic models of the companies that support and sustain journalism is starting to become apparent in the predictions made by some of the key observers, and some of them surprise even me.” (tags: BBC journalism online) Adrian Monck – views on the news biz “If you want

Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner of Persuasive Games, on the challenges of making news games for the media. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1077336&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95 at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin)

Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of the Telegraph Media Group, reflects on a year of change at the newspaper. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1072727&w=425&h=350&fv=] Shot on a Nokia N95 at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas

I caught up with Jim Brady, executive editor of the WashingtonPost.com during one of the lunch break at this weekend’s Online Journalism Symposium at Austin, Texas, to find out what was happening at the news website: [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1069138&w=425&h=350&fv=] (Shot on a Nokia N95)

As the Online Journalism Symposium draws to a close, I wanted to draw attention to the keynote on Saturday by Ramón Salaverria. He is a professor and vice chair at the School of Communication, Navarra University, Spain In his address, he tackled the illusive topic of convergence. In his view, convergence is very different to integration

I was fortunate enough to present my research on how the BBC has integrated blogging in its journalism at the Online Journalism Symposium. The paper, The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?, is available for download as a PDF. Here’s the abstract to provide a taster of the paper: This study examines how the world’s largest news organization, the BBC, has sought to incorporate blogging in its journalism, both

Social networking sites such as Facebook offer the potential to organise around a cause. But a study presented an the Online Journalism Symposium offers some valuable insights in what people actually do on Facebook. Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on College Students’ Social Capital (PDF), by Sebastian Valenzuela, Namsu Park, and Kerk F. Kee, graduate students at UT Austin, found that social media were good for

One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online. Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them as a part of the future of news

The second day of the Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin starts with what some may consider an unusual topic for a journalism conference – video games. Suzanne Seggerman, president of the non-profit Games For Change, offers an overview of games as a medium. She starts off by noting that parents, educators and the media approach games with fear. Her argument is that but people don’t understand that games are