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 local issues on TheThunderbird.ca and on our sister video site, ThunderbirdTV.ca. I’m looking forward

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 plugins to extend its functionality. Here are the ones I will mention in my presentation:

The AEJMC annual conference is the highlight for many faculty in the field of journalism and mass communication. Academics and students from across the world, though mainly from the US, come together to share the results of their research and discuss the future of journalism and communication. Like just about every organisation in the media business, the AEJMC itself is grappling with change. I was unable to go to this

I am delighted that my friend and colleague Jane Singer has won a contest on the future of journalism held by the AEJMC. Singer, from the University of Central Lancashire and University of Iowa was voted the winner for her entry, entitled, Bird’s-Eye View. In her contribution, Singer is positive about the future of journalism, while acknowledging that shape of the industry is going through a period of upheaval and

On a panel about what older/younger people don’t know about the internet at the AEJMC annual conference, Jay Rosen highlights what he sees about the true power of the net. In his view, it is the ability of people to find each other easily, share what they know and publish what they discover back to the world . “This is what is miraculous about the internet. but young people unaware

There are signs at the AEJMC annual conference that academics are starting to understand online journalism.  At one of the panels, Sue Robinson from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talked about the impact of the internet on journalism. She said that going online for journalists meant more than reading a few stories online. In her view, it meant joining a collaborative, network culture. This relates to an argument I have made

One of the big debates about blogging is whether the huge number of blogs means people are exposed to a greater variety of news and opinion. Research by the University of Wisconsin presented at the AEJMC annual conference suggests not. In a survey of almost 4,000 reader of political blogs found that most people read that match their political ideology.  But these people are also more likely to participate in

It’s the AEJMC annual conference in Chicago, where dozens of papers in journalism and communication are presented.  The range and variety is diverse, from startling findings to news of the obvious. A session on the challenges facing online newspapers first thing in the morning unfortunately offered little that was startling. One of the studies into online credibility by Chung Joo Chun, and Yoonjae Nam at the State University of New