Archive
24 Aug

Take charge of that journalism project

Think you can get away with just a pen and a notebook? Think again! You can still specialize, but expect to get outside of your comfort zone once in a […]

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24 Aug

Replacing textbooks with an iPad

<p>It's easy enough to imagine downloading texts to read them on an iPad. But imagine being able to download single chapters, rather than full texts. Imagine  interacting with the content through quizzes and other feature or highlighting text for others to see and sharing comments on passages with classmates.<br />Those are some of the things promised by a new textbook application for the iPad that some universities in the U.S. began using this week.</p>

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24 Aug

Music journalism: Low Fidelity

Smart rock criticism in the dailies was once number one with a bullet. Now the pages are full of boosters who never mind the bollocks. This week we feature Jessica […]

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24 Aug

Exceptional multimedia student projects

If you are looking for examples of great multimedia student projects, you may find them here. It’s a list of six exceptional projects recommended by Mark S. Luckie, the author […]

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23 Aug

Banning laptops in media classes without being a Luddite

<p>A new media journalism professor in the U.S. has decided to ban laptops in some of his media classes. <br />Jeremy Littau says he loves technology, but the evidence is building that student test scores improve in classes where laptops are banned. He is also concerned about what he calls "the halo effect."<br />

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23 Aug

Back to school advice for J-students

Start building your audience now. Understand that your journalism career started when you first posted anything to the Web and that j-school is about helping you improve it. So, conduct […]

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20 Aug

The secret to staying on top (of the news)

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson speaks with the Atlantic Wire about how he stays informed without falling victim to the constant torrent of information. “As a monthly magazine editor, I’m professionally […]

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20 Aug

What a magazine can do that an iPad can’t

Esquire‘s September issue back page lists “Things a magazine can do that an iPad can’t (Because our app will do a lot, but it won’t have cologne strips, either)”. The […]

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19 Aug

Vuvuzela, overleveraged, bromance now in dictionary

The creators of the Oxford English Dictionary have added 2,000 new words and phrases, largely inspired by the Interweb (another new addition), the World Cup and the global economic meltdown. […]

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17 Aug

Barbara Moon’s quest for perfection

Obsessive. Temperamental. Brilliant. Looking back on the life of the late Barbara Moon, a storied magazine editor, whose quest for perfection haunts writers still. This week we feature Seema Persaud‘s […]

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