New media skills for traditionally trained journalists
Monday May 2nd 2011

News

Pulitzer board allows “any available tool” for journalism prizes

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced that 12 of the 14 journalism categories may now use text, video, databases, [Read More]

Blogroll

Nuts & Bolts

Reporter/Blogger/Reporting/Blogging

Tim Carmody tries to take apart both the reporter/blogger split and the reporting/blogging split. Now, are different from what it means to be a blogger or a reporter. The [Read More]

Business

Talking to managers that aren’t the solution

Everybody has blind spots, handicaps in the way we see and perceive the world. I know [Read More]

Niles’s five beats for new local sites

Robert Niles writes at OJR about the five beats he’d create were he starting a [Read More]

Portfolios

Above and beyond the simple resume and copy-and-pasted clips is the online portfolio, and [Read More]

Content Creation

Web Apps

Web apps have exploded in the last year or two, going from simple document creation to apps that can do everything from edit text, audio, photo and video content. Some have [Read More]

Future

Looking at journalism with new eyes

Journalism educators must get out of the mindset that reporting will always be valuable. [Read More]

Curmudgeonry in journalism

Bryan Murley dismembers some journalism pundits’ recurring concerns that journalism [Read More]

Newsroom change efforts often focus on wrong employee groups

Michele McLellan makes a very smart point in saying that leaders of efforts to change [Read More]

Thoughts

Looking at journalism with new eyes

Journalism educators must get out of the mindset that reporting will always be valuable. Executives must get out of the mindset that the difficulty and expense of journalism equals value. Journalists must get out of the mindset that their (our) skills are valuable in and of [Read More]

If every journalist is an online journalist, journalists who aren’t online don’t exist

Here’s a bombastic statement: There is absolutely no valid reason not to be online at this time. If you’re [Read More]

Journalism School

Journalism is truly learned by doing, I think, but journalism schools still have a vital function.Whether at the beginning [Read More]