In just a couple weeks, hundreds of new journalism graduates will be starting their job hunts in earnest. Though we’re hearing a lot of bad news about job prospects overall, there are openings. In a recent check of company Web…
Month: November 2009
Twitter mistakes cost journalists
Note to journalists: Get your video on Facebook
New outlet for student journalism
An independent non-profit due to launch early next year will enlist students at the U.C. Berkeley graduate school of journalism to expand local news coverage in the San Francisco area. The Bay Area News Project, funded by a $5 million…
Five “don’ts” for multimedia journalists
Going live without the live truck
3G, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE or Skype. No, those letters are not the result of fingers run amok on a keyboard, they’re all now part of the multimedia journalist’s toolkit. An article from TVNewsCheck does a great job of describing how wireless…
Pay attention
The best advice I’ve seen lately on how to do better interviews can be summed up in those two words: Pay attention. That may be easier said than done if you’re shooting your own video, but it’s critically important. Once…
Are J-school students really journalists?
If a journalism school offers real world experience, should the students who participate be protected by reporters’ privilege? That’s a key question in a case involving a professor and students at Northwestern’s Medill J-school. David Protess runs the school’s “Innocence…
Punctuation made fun
How to do investigative stories
Be respectful, listen politely and stick up for the little guy. That doesn’t sound much like the advice of a hard-hitting investigative reporter, but Steve Andrews has been righting wrongs in the Tampa Bay area since 1985. The investigative reporter…