Launch of Newspaper Extinction Timeline for every country in the world — from Exploration Network by Ross Dawson
Newspaper extinction timeline:
When newspapers in their current form will become insignificant
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On 11/01/2010,
in change, dangers of the status quo, disruption, future, journalism, trends,
by Daniel Christian
The ultimate reporter tech toolkit? — from scripting.com by Dave Winer
Modern journalists technology toolkit to cover live events — from Random Thoughts Blog by Neerav Bhatt
On 09/13/2010,
in business, future of higher education, internet, journalism, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Again we see the power of the Internet to set up exchanges and to innovate around/personalize methods of providing information. I post this because:
1) I’m interested in journalism;
2) I’m interested in new business models and how the Internet impacts business models;
3) The same type of dynamic/thing may occur w/in higher education. So this is something we should be taking pulse checks on in the future.
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Also see:
- Ebyline launches online content marketplace
- Ebyline Launches News Content Marketplace Exclusive to Publishers and Professional Journalists; Economic Model Rewards High-Quality Reporting, Reduces Operational Costs
5Across: Beyond J-School — by Mark Glaser
5Across is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
Just as traditional media has struggled with disruptive technology and the Internet, so too have the institutions that run journalism education. Most journalism schools and training programs are run by people whose careers were framed by print, broadcast and traditional PR, so how can students get the skills they need in the digital age? We convened a group of journalism educators, a trainer, a student and a J-school dropout to discuss how journalism education is shifting.
Guests
Lea Aschkenas wrote a story about her experiences for Salon. Her post-journalism school career includes a stint as a staff reporter, itinerant freelance writer, and author of the memoir, “Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island” (Seal Press, 2006). She has also written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. Currently, she works as a public librarian and teaches poetry-writing through the California Poets in the Schools program.
Kelly Goff is a senior in the journalism department at San Francisco State University, focusing on print and online journalism. She recently moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles, where she earned her associates in journalism from Pierce College. She is also an assistant events planner with the Journalism Association of Community Colleges.
Jon Funabiki is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University and executive director of the Renaissance Journalism Center, which conducts projects to stimulate journalistic innovations that strengthen communities. Funabiki is the former deputy director of the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts & Culture Unit and was the founding director of San Francisco State University’s Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism. As a journalist with The San Diego Union, he specialized in U.S.-Asia political and economic affairs and reported from Japan, China, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries.
Lanita Pace-Hinton is the director of the Knight Digital Media Center, a continuing education program based at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The Knight Digital Media Center offers free week-long workshops that provides journalists with hands-on training on multimedia storytelling and how to use web tools and social media. Lanita has served as director of career services and industry outreach for the UC Berkeley journalism school. She advised students on skills development and how to prepare for their entry into the profession.
Full disclosure: The Knight Digital Media Center is a sponsor of PBS MediaShift.
Howard Rheingold is a prominent author, educator and speaker on technology and the Internet. He wrote best-sellers about virtual reality and virtual communities, and was the founding executive editor of HotWired. He also founded Electric Minds in the mid-’90s. Rheingold has taught as appointed lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford University and has spoken about the social, cultural, political and economic impacts of new technologies.
Also see:
- How to Teach Social Media in Journalism Schools — from 5Across
On 08/31/2010,
in change, game-changing environment, journalism, new business models,
by Daniel Christian
USA Today focuses on digital content and eliminates 130 jobs — from CTICareerSearch
Like many other print media companies, USA Today has been struggling with declining circulation and decreased revenue in today’s increasingly digitized world.
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On 08/30/2010,
in digital audio, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, disruption, journalism, multimedia, new media literacies,
by Daniel Christian
College journalists: Master new media or disappear — from USAToday.com
Last month, a college newspaper adviser from Florida, writing in the Huffington Post, took student journalists to task for failing to exploit their multimedia savvy. He’d been judging a contest and concluded that, except for some clear standouts, most of the stories on college newspaper websites looked like they were “tossed online without much thought. Or pictures, graphics, or video.”
Here, Jerod Jarvis, a senior majoring in journalism at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., challenges aspiring scribes everwhere to “be on the forefront of this revolution” and “move the industry forward.” Take it away, Jerod:
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On 08/30/2010,
in digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, journalism, nursing,
by Daniel Christian
Journalism class to test iPad as reporting tool – from USC
Also relevant (some of these addendums):
- Notre Dame to launch iPad pilot program
- New Stanford medical students to receive iPads
- Chicago Public Schools Launches iPad Trials
- Oregon universities put iPads to the test
- Rutgers to put iPad to the Test in new Digital Marketing Program
With Apple’s help, innovative technology becomes integral to executive education course
The Digital Landscape –What’s Next for News? — from spotlight.macfound.org
Harvards’s Nieman Reports weighs in on the future of journalism, including how young people are using technology as consumers and producers of information and how news organizations are looking to gaming as a way to engage audiences. Plus: evidence that journalism is not dying.
The new digital landscape, writes Melissa Ludtke, Neiman Reports editor, is “a place where game playing thrives and augmented reality tugs at possibilities. It’s where video excels, while the appetite for long-form text and the experience of ‘deep reading’ is diminished, and it’s where the allure of multitasking greets the crush of information.”
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Also see:
- The New New Journalism
- The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady
What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it. - Adam Webstbrook: Introducing: the journalist of the future
- Martin Belam: 7 ways the UK media scene resembles Doctor Who monsters
- Leah Betancourt: How Programmer/journalists are changing the news
- Mindy McAdams: Skills needed by today’s journalists
- 02 Creation – Videos: The state of the photojournalism and its future
A Story Worth Reading: Learning About Flash Mobs and Digital and Media Literacy — from spotlight.macfound.org
Renee Hobbs, founder of the Media Education Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia, has a fascinating story to tell about the power of media literacy, but she needs your help to tell it.
Using the website Spot.Us – a non-profit, open-source project through which “the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics” – Hobbs pitched a 1,500-word story on a unique approach to teaching digital literacy with younger students.
On 08/11/2010,
in Apple, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, innovation, journalism, new business models, new media literacies, publishing, trends,
by Daniel Christian
On 08/06/2010,
in change, game-changing environment, journalism, teaching & learning,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/09/2010,
in future of higher education, game-changing environment, journalism, online learning, open courseware and systems,
by Daniel Christian
Free Online Journalism Classes Begin To Gain Ground – from Media Shift via Ray Schroeder:
The CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito, is currently teaching a free online journalism class through Peer 2 Peer University, an online community of “open study groups for short university-level courses.” The online class syncs with a graduate-level class Ito teaches at Keio University in Japan, and features a UStream presentation and IRC chat once a week. IRC chat? Yes, the class glues together tools like UStream and IRC, and the platform, which was built on a Drupal base, continues to evolve. P2PU’s organizers make it clear they know the tools aren’t perfect, so they’re using feedback from participants to refine things as they go.
On 05/21/2010,
in digital photography, digital video, economics, engagement / engaging students, interface design, journalism, religion, sociology,
by Daniel Christian
