Posted on November 25th, 2011 by Deborah Potter
Journalists love lists and I’m no exception. So when I saw a list of 14 things to do before you graduate on SPJ’s First Draft blog, I had to share it here. We’ve said most of this before in the textbook and here on the blog, but it’s always useful to see tips like these all [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
Looks like it’s social media week on Advancing the Story. The video comes from Mashable and features an interview conducted by Adam Ostrow with Vadim Lavrusik of Facebook. (Thanks to Sue Weakley for the heads up.) A big chunk of the 30-minute video is devoted to the newish “subscribe” function on Facebook. Lavrusik says Facebook [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
The Project for Excellence in Journalism released results of a study regarding Twitter use by 13 major news outlets. The findings are interesting in that they seem to indicate that most news organizations are still using social media as a promotional tool, rather than as a means for interacting with audiences. The vast majority of [...]
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Posted on November 15th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
The most popular social media sites — YouTube, Facebook and Twitter — are free, aren’t they? Well, maybe, says social media guru Jeff Cutler. “Social media are definitely a time suck,” says Cutler. “They are shiny and fun and they can waste your time.” But journalists need these tools because they let you be “where [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
According to Juniper Research, companies delivering news content to mobile devices will make $1.1 billion in ad revenue by 2016. That’s a lot of money, and that’s why so many news organizations are scrambling to develop a mobile strategy. At the same time they”re pushing content out to mobile devices, newsrooms are increasingly focused on [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
The first Journalism Interactive Conference is sold out, but that doesn’t mean you can’t hear what some of the world’s leading experts have to say about what’s next for social media, mobile and entrepreneurial journalism. Starting Friday, the J/i website will feature live streaming of sessions with folks like Mashable’s Adam Ostrow, Amy Webb and [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
If your journalism school requires an internship, say thank you. More often than not, journalism grads reference their internships as the single most important thing to help them get a job in the profession. Allie Ware, a reporter for WTVA in Tupelo, Miss. wound up doing not one, but two internships during her time in [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Deborah Potter
Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to learn from them and survive them. CNN has generously shared “epic fail” moments from nine of its journalists, including anchor Brooke Baldwin, who admits to having locked up during a local news live shot. Several of the screw-ups are good reminders of the importance of checking the basics–like [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
When Soledad O’Brien joined NBC in 1991, she says the woman training her gave her some bad news. “She said that the evening news was dead,” laughed O’Brien. ”Now, I just avoid the naysayers.” Twenty years later, the evening news is still on the air and so is O’Brien. Now working as a reporter and [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
“Everyone should have a smartphone in the future; it’s baseline gear,” says Damon Kiesow of Boston.com. Speaking at the Society of Professional Journalists convention in New Orleans, Kiesow says newsrooms have to get more “intentional and strategic” when it comes to mobile. “It doesn’t work to just go buy 20 iPhones and tell the reporters [...]
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