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27 Aug

Older adults flocking to social media

The number of older adults using social media has almost doubled during the past year, according to a study by Pew Internet. Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are most popular […]

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27 Aug

The Twitter school of editing

Twitter may be full of self-indulgence and self-promotion, but don’t knock what it can do for you as a journalist. Aside from Twitter’s almost magical ability to connect users with […]

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27 Aug

J-school to close at one U.S. university

<p>The University of Colorado at Boulder is planning to shut down its traditional journalism and mass communication programs.<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2010/08/25/cu-boulder-committee-study-future-journalism-course-and-degree-offerings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a statement on its website</a>, the university says it wants to consider, instead, a new interdisciplinary academic program of information and communication technology and has set up an exploratory committee to help it do that.<br />

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27 Aug

Digital trends worth tracking, maybe

For those who love lists, two trend-watchers provide a short list of digital waves to watch out for over the upcoming months. The Googleization of media is particularly interesting for […]

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27 Aug

Geo-locating and journalism

The notion of tracking people’s location using Foursquare is the latest trend and some journalists are attempting to use it, mainly for the “cool” factor. However, Jason Keith, of Social […]

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27 Aug

Lessons learned from crowdsourcing

A recently released report by Pew Research and some timely comments from Al Tompkins, from Poynter Online result in a wonderful case study of the pitfalls of crowdsourcing and a […]

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27 Aug

Why data sites need journalists

An article in the UK’s Guardian explains why data needs journalists (and vice versa). The Guardian‘s John Keenan writes: “According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and […]

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27 Aug

How the media covered the BP spill

A new study examines 2,900 American media stories about the Gulf oil spill disaster, from the day of the oil rig explosion to the day after BP CEO Tony Hayward’s […]

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27 Aug

Listen live: journos-turned-entrepreneurs

From 11 to noon today listen to CIUT’s “Career Buzz” to hear two journalists explain why they become entrepreneurs. Career Buzz writes: “One journalist becomes an entrepreneur, another supports music […]

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27 Aug

J-School offers no job guarantees

A recent and successful Carleton journalism graduate says j-school has a lot to offer students these days, but not the one thing most of them want – a job in journalism.  […]

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