Making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology
John Russial of the University of Oregon posed a provocative question at the AEJMC annual conference. In a research paper, he and co-author Arthur Santana studied whether the industry wants every journalist to have cross-platform skills. In a survey of 210 US newspapers, he found that different members of the newsrooms rated skills differently. Russial argued [...]
At the AEJMC annual conference in Denver, Aug 4-7, I am taking part in a session entitled Planning, Launching and Running a Convergent Student News Website. I will be explaining how we created and launched the student publication, TheThunderbird.ca, at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. We use WordPress for the site, using a number of [...]
One of the topics of discussion at the recent International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT Austin was producing news products for Apple’s iPad. Dan Gillmor has expressed concerns about Apple’s ability to decide what appears on the iTunes store and hence the iPad. I asked Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center for Internet and [...]
It’s time to wrap up 2009 with a look at what you have been reading on Reportr.net. Here are the 10 most popular posts of the past 12 months. 31 essential online tools for journalist FoJ09 talk: Twitter as a system of ambient journalism How to find out anything about anyone online Twitter CEO sees [...]
This compilation of the top 100 tools of 2009 for learning published by social learning consultant Jane Hart could just as well apply to journalism. The darling of the year, Twitter, came top. Other valuable tools in the top 10 are Delicious, YouTube, Google Reader, Google Docs, WordPress, Slideshare, Google Search, Audacity and Firefox. I, [...]
Deborah Wenger of the University of Mississippi looked at what the top US news companies were looking for in new hires. In her presentation at the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff, she outlined what skills and attributes were mentioned in job listings. They found 715 job postings. In newspapers, a third of them for [...]
The final panel of the day at the International Online Journalism Symposium at UT Austin in Texas looked at visual and multimedia story-telling on the web. María Teresa Ronderos, Editor of Semana.com from Colombia showed some of the site’s impressive work in using multimedia to explore and explain different types of stories. Semana.com put together [...]
The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy.
As 2008 draws to a close, reviews of the year and predictions of the year to come are a common feature. Poynter have put together a useful guide to multimedia projects that you may have missed in 2008. The list is US-dominated but also includes the award-winning Talking to the Taliban project by Canada’s Globe [...]
This blog is run by Professor Alfred Hermida, an award-winning online news pioneer, digital media scholar and journalism educator.