Sensing the Environment: Investigating Water Pollution with Sensor Journalism at WVU
It's our moment of truth. My student, Jillian Clemente, and I returned to the Taylor County, West Virginia, stream where…
Remix: How to Teach an Immersive Summer Code Camp
This summer, I taught two different immersive coding courses for mass communication students. Called SummerCodeCamp, the courses covered programming concepts…
Media Metrics Roundup for September 7, 2016
Comments Are Changing. Our Commitment to Audiences Shouldn’t. (Amanda Zamora / Poynter) You liked the 10UP takeaways. Here's another terrific…
Upcoming Trainings and Courses: Sept. 7 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on…
Must Reads in Media & Technology: Sept. 7
1. The New York Times Gets Serious About Podcasting (Ken Doctor / Politico) 2. How Facebook's Most Hated Feature Became the Future…
4 Examples of AI’s Rise in Journalism (And What it Means for Journalists)
The rise of artificial intelligence and automation in journalism has been front and center in the news lately, from Narrative…
Why Journalists Can No Longer Ignore Snapchat
"Not ready to pretend that @Instagram is @Snapchat yet." One of my fellow grad students tweeted that back on August…
Remix: How to Teach Story-Finding Skills
A colleague and I often laugh that students say, "I don't have a story," when we walk across campus and…
#MetricShift Chat: The Impact of Snapchat and Instagram Stories
Believe it or not, Snapchat turns five years old this month and has more active daily users than Twitter. Instagram…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup: Sept. 6
1. Pew: Print Books Still More Popular Than Ebooks and Audiobooks (Daniel Berkowitz / Digital Book World) 2. Self-Publishing Matters – Don’t…