6 Word Story?
We spend a lot of time teaching our students to write essays, news stories, press releases and the list goes on. What about combining words an images to create a complete story? What if you did it every day? Here are some samples from http://sixwordstoryeveryday.com/?et_mid=533708&rid=233339100 [...]
How Digital and Traditional Journalism Mix.
I teach in a College of Communication and Media Sciences. We teach storytelling. Some of the tools to tell stories are traditional, paper and the like. Some of the tools to tell a story are electronic. And the constant battle today is to find the mix, the right mix, of traditional and new journalism tools [...]
A journalism Idea!
Journalism is dead, long live journalism! I just read an excellent piece on the re-invention of journalism, sort of. There is no question the journalism many of us have grown up with is changing or has changed. Just the shift from broadsheet to tabloid has facilitated a very real change in the way stories are [...]
Media “focus on entertainment over news” is this a bad thing?
Entertainment vs news is there really an us versus them situation in front of us? Is it really that bad if news begins to take on a more entertaining stance? Isn’t the real issue whether the message is getting through? The Swiss have found that what is being covered in their constituency is entertainment and [...]
Are We Ready to Re-imagine Journalism?
Are we ready to re-imagine journalism and do we want to? Or should the question be do journalism schools want to re-imagine what they are teaching, why and how? The journalism of yesterday and the journalism of today are rather different! Sure the physical act is the same, sort of, but the environment is changing [...]
Hope For Journalism?
I don’t know about you but I love long-form journalism. Think the opposite of tabloid to the micro-point journalism. I am talking about the long, full of detail, investigative story that we seldom get to read today in our commercial driven media. Well sure if we are reading a news magazine we find some of [...]
New CCMS and New Media Institutions!
Zayed University’s College of Communication and Media Sciences is reinventing itself, as of next year a brand new curriculum will be taught. Some may ask why change? The media environment is changing and many, including me, will say the change is for the good. But others will say journalism is on a death march why [...]
Have we missed the point about the demise of journalism?
There is a lot of talk, globally, about why journalism is in the state it is. Some point a finger at politics, others culture, others economics and many say WWW! So what is it? How do we even begin to think about the change that is happening in our communication landscape? I point you to [...]
The new world of work
THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM Listen One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist. So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they [...]
Smart Journalism
Today the way we do journalism is developing before our eyes and many reporters do not even see it happening! Smart phones are making the distribution of news and opinion NEW. In the past I have called what is coming iJournalism but now I realize the new technology enables journalism is smart journalism! Smart phones [...]
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