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Pondering the future
Posted by: cynmc on: February 1, 2009
With layoffs continuing in the newspaper business (and spreading to PR and advertising agencies), it’s hard to know what to tell students who want to pursue a career in the news media.
So I was glad to see Mindy McAdams’ blog post, Advice for Journalism Students Now. If you aspire to a career in journalism, this [...]
Magazine project resource
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 2, 2008
I just ran across an online slide show that might be helpful to you as you work on your magazine project, particularly as you think about developing a short-form info box or graphic to accompany your magazine piece.
It’s a slide show on Data Visualization by Mindy McAdams, who teaches graduate and undergraduate [...]
More bad news
Posted by: cynmccune on: December 2, 2008
The bad news for the newspaper industry just keeps coming:
Gannett Blog: Bulletin: Gannett launches mass nationwide layoff
tags: future of newspapers, newspapers, future of news, layoffs
The nation’s top newspaper publisher, Gannett, has begun what is expected to be the single-biggest layoff in the industry’s history — cutting as many as 3,000 jobs in an increasingly desperate [...]
First, the bad news
Posted by: cynmccune on: November 28, 2008
As newspaper layoffs continue, and as some newspapers shut down or convert to web-only publication (like the Christian Science Monitor), lots of folks are scrambling to figure out a new business model for the news biz.
For example, the American Press Institute recently held a summit on saving the newspaper industry. They reached no conclusions, but [...]
Page 1 Obama
Posted by: cynmccune on: November 6, 2008
See how newspapers across the country conveyed Barak Obama’s election win on their front pages at http://newsdesigner.com/frontpages/obama.php
Why we blog
Posted by: cynmccune on: September 1, 2008
Worried that the Internet and bloggers are crowding out newspapers, journalism and real journalists? (Who isn’t!) A recent blog post on reportr.net, titled How blogging creates new opportunities for journalists, offers a different perspective.
In this post, Scott Elliott, an education reporter and blogger with the Dayton Daily News, tells how blogging opened up new [...]
Writing in chunks
Posted by: cynmccune on: May 7, 2008
This week’s exercises have you looking at examples of online news writing. In one of the exercises, you’re asked, among other things, whether the stories are broken into “chunks.”
What’s a “chunk” you ask? Chunking is an approach to organizing and writing information online to make it more accessible and readable. This approach recognizes that online [...]
How FOGgy are you?
Posted by: cynmccune on: April 11, 2008
A number of you were surprised by your FOG Index scores — they were higher than you thought. A couple of you asked for more information on the FOG Index. So here it is.
Wikipedia has a good write-up on the FOG index, with links to online calculators and such. Here’s the direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning-Fog_Index
Wikipedia [...]
Tips for student bloggers
Posted by: cynmccune on: February 3, 2008
Here’s a helpful blog post by Karen Miller Russell, a PR professor at the University of Georgia, with tips for developing a successful student blog. It’s got some good ideas for blog post topics, and for getting your blog noticed.
A future for journalists?
Posted by: cynmccune on: January 27, 2008
Does journalism have a future? How about journalists?
Howard Owens, director of digital publishing at Gatehouse Media, Inc., says that while the role of the professional journalist is changing, journalists will still have roles to play in the brave new world of new media.
Read what Owens has to say in “Six roles, or job duties, of [...]
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