Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, January 15, 2015
1. President Obama's student-data-privacy proposal gets wary industry reaction (Benjamin Herold / Education Week) 2. What to do when a…
Daily Must Reads, January 15, 2015
1. Facebook walks a free-speech tightrope (Reed Albergotti / Wall Street Journal) 2. Vimeo to fund Maker Studios creators in…
What Putin Teaches Us About Handling Internet Trolls
The following opinion piece is a guest post. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. "I almost wanted to vomit."…
Daily Must Reads, January 14, 2015
1. Digital version of English-language Charlie Hebdo to be available via app (Keith J. Kelly / New York Post) 2.…
A Progress Report on Jeff Bezos Transforming the Washington Post
If you don’t like change, don’t work at the Washington Post. But if you are a consumer of digital news,…
6 Tips About Students for Professionals Entering a Classroom
When I was hired at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop an intense (or perhaps insane) six-credit multimedia bootcamp course,…
Advice for Making the Leap from Newsroom to Classroom
EdShift curator Katy Culver recently posted a question to the ONA Educators group on Facebook. As we were gearing up…
With $3M More in Knight Funding, Tow Center Looks Toward Data, Computational Journalism
The rise of the data journalist and computational journalism is an unstoppable trend -- and one that we've written about…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, January 13, 2015
1. Macmillan signs on with e-book subscription services Oyster & Scribd (Anthony Ha / TechCrunch) 2. The e-books vs. print…
Daily Must Reads, January 13, 2015
1. Most of the New York Times’ most popular items last year weren’t news stories (Benjamin Mullin / Poynter) 2.…