#ISOJ Highlights: Drones, Wearables, Ethics and Startups
As journalists representing more than 40 countries descended upon Austin, Texas, over the weekend for the 15th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ), the show clearly evolved from...
View ArticleHow Scripps College at Ohio Uses School-Wide Competition to Build Media...
Coauthored by Andy Alexander As attention to media entrepreneurship builds in journalism programs nationwide, we are using a competition at Ohio University to help students envision a future as...
View ArticleIn Venezuela, Data Journalism Is Taking Off
At the end of nine exhausting yet exhilarating days spent in three Venezuelan cities, I watched 30 journalists present the start of at least eight different data journalism projects seeking to answer...
View ArticleColumbia’s Lede Program Aims to Go Beyond the Data Hype
This all began at Joe’s Coffee on the Columbia University campus one morning last spring. Mark Hansen was then teaching journalism students who didn’t know much about data or computing. I was working...
View ArticleJournalism & Digital Education Roundup, April 17, 2014
1. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt chief content officer: We should ban “digital” learning (Mary Cullinane / EdSurge) 2. Teaching adolescents how to evaluate the quality of online information (Julie Coiro /...
View ArticleFuture-Proofing News Apps
IBM NORC, 1954. Courtesy of Columbia University Computing History Let’s say that you’re a historian in 2064 and you want to look at the New York Times for a view of how journalists represented...
View ArticleCUNY to Launch Master’s in Social Journalism
Some big news at CUNY: We are developing a new master’s degree in social journalism. We’ve considered calling it a degree in community information and engagement. I will also argue that it is a degree...
View ArticlePoynter Report: Educators Value Digital Skills More Than Professionals Do
Educators say they think digital skills are important, but how likely is that journalism schools and programs are actually teaching students those skills? Are those journalism programs teaching the...
View ArticleA Push for Closed Captioning in the Digital Age
As digital video continues to disrupt the traditional TV world, there are complications beyond just those affecting the business model. The move of video to the Net also has caused problems for viewers...
View Article8 Lessons from the Financial Times’ Digital Success
From a business perspective, the Financial Times is one of the most successful traditional newspapers in the world in the transition to digital. The specifics — generously shared by FT managing...
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