Knight’s Eric Newton on How J-Schools Can Best Train the Next Generation of News Entrepreneurs
In journalism education circles, few people have spent more energy trying to bridge the academic and professional worlds than Eric…
#EdShift Chats: Can MOOCs Boost Journalism Education?
On Friday, March 7, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other online efforts…
Assignment Remix: Tackling Data Requests in Classes
Remix is a new segment of education content on MediaShift, featuring interesting and innovative journalism assignments, courses and curricula. Writers…
Journalists Killed in Iraq More Often Targeted Than Caught in Crossfire
Car bombs. Suicide attacks. Assassinations. These words are too often attached to any mention of Iraq these days. The reported…
Daily Must Reads, March 5, 2014
1. HBO Go launches on PlayStation 3 (Todd Spangler / Variety) 2. New York Times to add 'new products' for…
What I Learned by Flipping the MOOC
Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s) and…
Special Series: An Unplugged Life, 2014
Call it spring cleaning. A digital detox. Each year, even we, those of us who live, eat, sleep and breathe…
Celebrate Day of Unplugging with Nap-In, Typewriters, Live Music
To achieve clarity of mind and a spirit of relaxation, connected people across the states and overseas will participate in…
Futures Lab Update #49: Denver Post Apps; Revs at GeekWire; Arts Coverage at Crosscut
Reported by Reuben Stern and Olga Kyle. This week we learn from The Denver Post's experience developing single-topic mobile apps,…
E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, March 4, 2014
1. Amazon-owned Audible lowers royalty rates on self-published audiobooks (Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOm) 2. New Mills & Boon website…