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This promo video provides a taste of a forthcoming exhibition at the British Library in London showcasing new research tools and techniques. The exhibition, called Growing Knowledge, runs from October 12 2010 to July 16 2011. The aim is “to inform and inspire today’s researchers, consult and engage with them, demonstrate the value of investment [...]
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10 Aug 2010Google has hired two of the leading researchers in visualization. In an understated post entitled That was fast!, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg announced that they had joined Google. Viégas and Wattenberg led IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, where they created the ground-breaking collaborative visualization platform Many Eyes. They left and set up Flowing Media a few months ago. But [...]
During a panel at the AEJMC annual conference on rebooting journalism education, Rich Beckman from the University of Miami in Florida highlighted one of the big issues in journalism schools. Beckman spoke about the need to have faculty with the skills, knowledge and experience to teach new and emerging forms of digital journalism. He argued that re-educating [...]
An early morning session at the AEJMC conference, educators discussed one of the big issues in journalism education: what do journalism students need to learn to succeed in the industry. Amy Eisman of American University outlined six challenges to rebooting the curriculum within an academic environment: Glacial pace of change at universities Belief that established [...]
The final panel at the pre-AEJMC conference workshop on the role of journalism schools as news providers looked at innovative initiatives. Joe Bergantino gave some background to the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University. It works as a 24/7 newsroom run by professional journalists with students as researchers and trainees. Students learn [...]
A pre-conference workshop at the annual AEJMC conference focused on the changing role of journalism schools. Karen Dunlap at the Poynter Institute expressed some optimism about student journalists filling the void left by declining news coverage. She said the students might see communities in new ways and explore new forms of story-telling, guided by faculty. [...]
The annual AEJMC conference in Denver kicks off with a pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 3 August journalism schools as news providers. The workshop brings together journalism practitioners and educators to discuss how j-schools are filling gaps in news coverage through student journalism. At the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, you can see examples of student reporting [...]
On Wednesday 21 July, I’ll be talking at the IAMCR conference in Braga about our integrated journalism programme at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia. Here are my slides: Lessons from integrated approach to journalism education View more presentations from Alfred Hermida.
Henrik Ornebring of University of Oxford gave a quick overview of his six-nation comparative study of the skills of journalists at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. This is a three-year project, running from 2007 to 2010 and covering six countries: UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland and Estonia. Ornebring conducted a non-representative online survey with 2,200 [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.