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26 Aug

Online tutorials for multimedia beginners

You can find tutorials and tip sheets to teach yourself a variety of multimedia tools from making Google maps to telling stories with audio and video at a vareity of different […]

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24 Aug

Teaching the future of journalism

Professors can’t lecture about the future, says Tim McGuire, who holds a chair in the business of journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. But he […]

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21 Aug

J- educators need to rewrite their conference programs

One U.S. journalism educator was less than impressed with his first visit to the annual conference of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. Steve Fox, a multimedia […]

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20 Aug

But does the president have a middle name?

Carleton journalism professor Jeff Sallot first went to Rwanda during the genocide in 1994, as a reporter for The Globe and Mail. He’s since returned twice to teach journalism night […]

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19 Aug

Profs reluctant to share syllabi online

It’s that time of year. Profs across the country are busy preparing their courses for the fall term and producing a detailed syllabus for each course they will teach. How many […]

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17 Aug

How to choose a j-program

Choosing the right journalism school or program is more challenging than ever, given the changes in the industry and the uncertainty about the future of journalism as we know it. This […]

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11 Aug

Lesson#1: Interviewing is listening

Teaching interviewing requires more than just giving students lists of dos and don’ts. Playing examples of television and radio interviews to illustrate the good and bad habits of interviewers is […]

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4 Aug

Re-thinking lessons for j-students

One journalism educator is rewriting her lessons for the fall semester to include more straight talk for j-students and less emphasis on old arguments about the role of journalists in […]

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15 Jun

Teaching students to blog

New York University professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen led an online chat at Poynter recently to offer advice about to teach blogging and answer questions from educators about things […]

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11 May

Doing a lot with a little: how a team of students broke a story wide open

By Fred Vallance-Jones One of the most gratifying parts of making the move to academic life is seeing the remarkable things that a group of young people can accomplish when […]

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