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Essential reading online for journalism students
This blog is among a comprehensive list of the 100 best blogs for journalism students. The list covers everything from general blogs on journalism such as PoynterOnline to those by educators such as Mindy McAdams to blogs by journalists such as Matthew Ingram. One site absent from the list is the UK-based Journalism.co.uk. It has created its own list blogs and sites also missing from the list which it considers as important reading for any (particularly UK-based) journalism
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Cool Links #45: Stress Is Bad For You
ly one we don’t know yet. 7 – This cool links roundup seems to be heavy on the web tools, and so here’s 27 Must-Have-Starter Tools for Web Designers. 8 – If you teach any form of journalism, then you need to read Mindy McAdams’ post about what we really need to be teaching young aspiring journalism students today. It is a real wake up call. 9 – The Edit Foundry blog has a useful post on a concept he calls Eye Trace, that is similar to the photographic concepts of dominant subject, rule of thirds and leading lines. It’s all about making
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Helpful Online Journalism Tutorials for Beginners
assignments to make the student actually do them. But overall, students said they found the tutorials helpful, liked that they could learn at their own pace, and returned to them over and over again. I found out about many of these tutorials from Mindy McAdams, who has written a great series of posts called a Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency on her blog. NewsU and the Knight Digital Media Center are also great resources. So below is a list of tutorials I’ve used in my courses.
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Bloggers share lots of advice
like to leave the same post up for long. Mark Potts: Write whenever you have something to say. I want to close with two observations from Gazette bloggers that I found particularly insightful and some important advice from Mindy McAdams, Teaching Online Journalism blogger: Know what you’re writing about Angie Holmes: Blogging is different than writing stories because you can add your own knowledge of a subject matter and don’t necessarily need someone else to tell the story. I “accidentally” began
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Does journalism create value?
to that theater every week, no matter what was playing. I had very little access to movies otherwise. Today I have Netflix, BitTorrent, and hundreds of cable TV channels. The family closed that movie theater back in the early days of the VCR.” Teaching Online Journalism » Does journalism create value?.
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5 Must-Read Online Media Books
–or rather, as a standards-compliant HTML slinger. You see, I first learned to design web sites by my lonesome using Adobe GoLive and its accompanying manual (go on, laugh and get it out of your system). It wasn’t until I used this book in Mindy McAdams’ multimedia class at the University of Florida that I really started to learn to design using modern best practices. This book is still my go-to recommendation whenever I’m asked about a good book for learning HTML and CSS. Now go on, tell everyone in the comments w
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High Quality Machines to Help Your Hard Works
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Appealing to the audience…
This posting comes to you courtesy of a confused mind. A combination of blog-hopping, too much time gardening in the sun, and physically and mentally wrapping up a contest my students entered. So Mindy McAdams had a great blog and link to a Christian Science Monitor article by Robert G. Picard (any relation to THE Picard I wonder). That stewed around in my sizzling brain as I hemmed and hoed in the garden mulling over why my clan of volunteer videots had so much difficulty with
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News outsiders know: Linking out helps SEO, dri...
Before the two-year-old echo chamber of Jeff Jarvis’ mantra “do what you do best and link to the rest,” and beside the concept of curation and aggregation as journalism, web experts outside of the news industry learned a long time ago that sending people away from your improves your search engine rankings and drives traffic back to your site. Here are some tips from outside the news biz: Hotel marketer a
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Links for the weekend | Links para o fim de semana
story, and they will thank you. How? By treating you like a first-class citizen of the Internet, and coming back to your news site, which is no longer a dead end backwater in the river of news, but a point of connection where they can find other interesting streams. Social journalism: Back to the future, Mindy MacAdams Engagement — one of three legs needed to support successful social media projects. (The others are inclusion and aggregation.) What does this mean for journalists, for news organizations? Paul Gillin, a social media consultant and former techn