Hamsterizing Journalism?

Are journalists becoming hamsters? Maybe! News is changing. Reporting is changing. Newsroom and news outlet management is changing. Yet the fundamentals and models that we are measuring against are not changing. Are we looking at a problem? The Project for Excellence in Journalism said in a 2008 report: In today’s newspapers, stories tend to be gathered faster and under [...]

What is convergent journalism?

Are we there yet? What is convergent journalism and is anyone really teaching it? Sure there is a lot of talk but is there a lot of actual application? And then there is the whole issue of whether convergent journalism simply further blurs the PR/journalism line altogether. Here is a good place to start the conversation, a [...]

We all need proof of worth

How do you know what you are doing has any value beyond allowing you to pay your bills? Do you actually care? I do! And like many professors I often wonder if anything I am doing is actually having an impact on the future. By the future I mean are my students taking any of [...]

You know you are doing something right.

How often do you look in the mirror after you have done a days work and ask, “is it getting through?” I suspect all too often we miss the signs that what we are doing is having an impact. Today I was working with a class on an end of term project and gave the [...]