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Wednesday February 22nd 2012

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Talking to managers that aren’t the solution

Everybody has blind spots, handicaps in the way we see and perceive the world. I know people who are smart and knowledgeable and everything who will never bridge the gap between an email message and TCP/IP. Whether it’s just too foreign a concept or that they have a [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 local news site: Food Education Labor Business Faith He also stipulates that this imaginary site would have zero wire copy or syndicated material and be totally locally produced and aimed [Read More]

Portfolios

Above and beyond the simple resume and copy-and-pasted clips is the online portfolio, and though the former two are absolutely vital the latter can add a great deal of appeal to employers, editors and the audience. Portfolios showcase your skills and talents through your [Read More]

Business plans

Business plans are documents that gather together not only what you plan to do as a business, but information about the health of your business and the environment it operates in. Basically a business plan will include a description of the business, marketing plans, [Read More]

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The Presleys and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

(with apologies to Judith Viorst for title pilferage) Keanu Reeves has a bit in The Replacements where he talks about [Read More]

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 [Read More]

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]

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]

Curmudgeonry in journalism

Bryan Murley dismembers some journalism pundits’ recurring concerns that journalism education is ditching the [Read More]

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