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Will Mobile Education Arrive in the Developing World?
In developing countries, where smartphones and dependable cellular networks are still scarce, it’s been difficult to gauge the real impact of the mobile education movement. But with the combination of...
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Journalism Students Give Helping Hand While Studying Abroad
In a rural province of Cambodia, a broadcast journalism student from California State University, Fullerton prepares a news report about an American medical missionary group that’s come to the village...
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The Challenges and Advantages of Female Media Entrepreneurs
Between Sheryl Sandberg’s new “sort of feminist manifesto,” Marissa Mayer’s rapid post-pregnancy return to Yahoo, and The Atlantic’s viral cover story on whether women can have it all, discussions on...
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Business Insider Just Told College Students Their Secrets of Success
Earlier this month, in a Manhattan hotel conference room, a student journalist admitted being nervous about an upcoming business reporting internship. “I’m going to be blunt,” she said. “I’m 20. I...
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Through sponsorship on PBS MediaShift and its associated properties, such as Idea Lab, the Mediatwits podcasts, and events, sponsors reach a highly engaged audience of media professionals, including...
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, April 12, 2013
1. Twitter’s music service: Everything we know so far (The Verge) 2. Two charts that tell you everything you need to know about the future of newspapers (PaidContent.org) 3. The co-founder of...
View Article#ISOJ Keynote: Can Social Media Help Us Create A More Informed Public?
Here’s the transcript of a talk I gave at the International Symposium for Online Journalists in Austin, Texas last Friday. We Messed Up Now as many of you know, I’m usually I’m not at a loss for words....
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A Virtual Reality Doctor Is Possible, But Is It Effective?
Let’s all agree that there will be no more handwringing over whether robots are going to replace doctors in certain medical scenarios. Because the short answer is: yes. The virtual human health coach...
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How BetaBrand Creates the Most Engaging Content in Online Retail
After reading Terri Thornton’s post about the phenomenon of companies marketing by creating content, I had absolutely no concerns for the future of PR and advertising for two main reasons. First, PR...
View ArticleJournalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 7, 2013
1. Schools act to prevent high-tech cheating on standardized tests (LA Times) 2. The best in ed-tech tools (EdSurge) 3. Who’s afraid of the big bad MOOC? (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 4. The...
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13 Lessons from Killing Our College Daily Paper and Pushing Digital
The party, the pizza, the beer and a duck changed everything for our campus newspaper. On a warm October night last fall, 500 students celebrated the start of our Revolution. They sipped Revolutionale...
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Best Free Newspaper Apps: Serving a Niche, Providing Utility
In the beginning, newspapers’ apps were mostly replicas of what they produce in print daily, shrunk down to fit a desired screen. Publishers simply wanted to be in the mobile mix -– and the emphasis...
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The Best Apps for Educators
In a speech 30 years ago, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs envisioned a computer-as-book, wirelessly connected to others. And the first-generation iPad fulfilled this image of a passive computing device....
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6 Ways to Survive an ‘Internet Drubbing’
In February 2012, Lisa Khoury met the Internet. Foregoing a handshake, the meeting began with the digital equivalent of a slap across the face. As a sophomore at the University of Buffalo and at the...
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Try to Remove Investigative Reporting Center from...
Early this week, I awoke to learn that University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism student Mario Koran had won a prestigious scholarship named for a brave and talented young journalist who died last...
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Where Innovation and Collaboration Can Start in Higher Education: Digital...
This post was co-written by Kevin Robinson of San Diego State University. Many reports and articles lately have documented the change of tide in higher education today. Many higher education...
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Warning: Your Hasty Move to Responsive Design Could Backfire
A recent study by Nielsen found that in the U.S., 61 percent of mobile phone users own smartphones. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that responsive web design has become very attractive to...
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Columbia J-School Looks to Shed ‘Old School’ Image with Curriculum Revamp
The slang term old school can have different connotations depending on its context. Going “old school” could mean doing something traditional and old-fashioned in a hip way. Or it could be someone who...
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Costa Rican Paper Tells a Visual Story of Obama Visit
When U.S. President Barack Obama visited San José, Costa Rica this spring, he brought along the biggest security operation in the country’s history. Costa Rica’s La Nación newspaper knew its audience...
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WNYC’s Ups and Downs with Collaborations, Digital Push, Quadrupling Newsroom
Early in 2010, with the newspaper industry in precipitous free-fall, the president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation called on the head of New York Public Radio to see if the two could make common...
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