Multimedia won’t save newspapers.
Hate to say it, but multimedia is just another way of telling stories, but not another way of making money. In fact, I’d guess that after training and equipment, many multimedia ventures are mostly funded by other parts of the newspaper. But that doesn’t mean that the internet is good [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
2 things that need to happen to save journalism
4/22/2008 – 10:41 pm
The 1 thing every journalism professor should do
4/16/2008 – 10:55 pm
…is give class credit to any student who gets published during the semester.
I had a former professor and Inquirer writer Tom Gibbons speak my “Journalism and Trauma” class (one of my favorites, taught by Pulitzer Prize winner Jim MacMillan). In the lecture, he said he often gave students extra credit for getting published.
Why isn’t this [...]
Why is the site screwed up?
4/8/2008 – 11:16 pm
I’m honoring CSS Naked day.
The purpose? To show of your sweet CSS skills and promote web standards. However, the jigsaw puzzle of my banner shows I still have a ways to go…
Edit: no more CSS naked day!
Confessions of a Journalism Student
4/4/2008 – 12:14 am
I have rewritten this post three times.
Every time I thought I had an original point about j-schools someone beat me to it, dangit. If you have been scanning your feed reader lately, you probably noticed a flurry of posts directed at students with advice on school, and linking that advice to the future of [...]