Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, October 22, 2013
1. "How I'm already using 'Searchlights and Sunglasses' in the classroom" (Susan Moeller / Knight Foundation) 2. As with media,…
Daily Must Reads, October 22, 2013
1. Netflix now has more paying customers than HBO in the U.S. (Zachary Seward / Quartz) 2. BuzzFeed hires Pulitzer…
Do Journalists Understand Security Issues? OpenITP, Idea Lab Partner to Help
A few years back, the first digital tsunami hit the journalism world, and I became fascinated with how digital was…
Why Defining a Journalist Is Messy, But Crucial
Edson C. Tandoc, Jr., a Fulbright Scholar at the Missouri School of Journalism, co-authored this post. Earlier this month we…
Surveillance Looms Large at the Online News Association Conference
It's been the story of the year, and it led to two Online News Association awards for the Guardian as…
Daily Must Reads, October 21, 2013
1. Tech wealth and ideas are headed into the news (David Carr / New York Times) 2. Online-only Chalkbeat network…
Advice for College Journalists: Don’t Do What I Did
I have a confession: I was part of the problem for American newspapers. In 2005, I had just started covering…
Creating Code in Journalism: OpenNews Expands With Knight Grant
"How can we help?" When I first joined OpenNews (at the time it was called the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership…
Daily Must Reads, October 18, 2013
1. News' need to pump web traffic presents speedbump for network TV coverage (Brian Lowry / Variety) 2. AT&T announces…
Pushing Change in Journalism Education with Revamped EducationShift Section
When I launched PBS MediaShift back in January 2006, I wanted to focus our coverage on how digital disruption was…