I found this list of 40 best blogs for journalism students today. Not only do I teach journalism, I am also a student working online toward a masters degree in journalism at Regent University. So this list will be good for me to add to my Google reader list.
Google reader is a great way to keep up with blogs. It's one-stop shopping that you can check every day or once in a while to catch up.
This little blog isn't on the list, but maybe some day.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Paid content and mobile devices are matching up
A research article in a academic journal I read a couple years ago led me to surmise that online news will grow and be monetized when it is as convenient as the printed word. Mobile devices are making that happen.
This Poynter article shows that an increasing number of people are paying for content with mobile devices. The younger demographics are trending toward smartphones, while the older demographics are trending toward tablets.
This Poynter article shows that an increasing number of people are paying for content with mobile devices. The younger demographics are trending toward smartphones, while the older demographics are trending toward tablets.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Pawley's Front Prorch: Video done easy and a great meal
One of the helpful things we are learning at the convergent journalism teaching bootcamp this week is that you don't have to break out the high-end video cameras and software to produce a decent video for a news website.
Today we used hand-held Kodak video cameras and Windows Movie Maker to produce short videos. Our instructions were to go some place nearby and find a simple story. So partner Kevin Blackistone, who is a visiting professor at Maryland, and I walked over a mile to this small restaurant he had been to, but they were closed. Fortunately it was a block from our hotel so we got in my rental car and drove a few blocks to a place I had been on Monday, Pawley's Front Porch.
We got the video edited just in time. I had shot the footage, Kevin did the interviewing and the narration and we shared the editing. It's just a simple little story that could be better, but it showed us how easy it is for students to put something together of interest for a student newspaper website.
We had so much fun there that Kevin and I and three others went there for dinner tonight. I had another great hamburger, we shared fired oysters and fried pickles and had a lot of interesting conversation about our experiences and what we've learned this week. It was great time.
Here's the video:
Today we used hand-held Kodak video cameras and Windows Movie Maker to produce short videos. Our instructions were to go some place nearby and find a simple story. So partner Kevin Blackistone, who is a visiting professor at Maryland, and I walked over a mile to this small restaurant he had been to, but they were closed. Fortunately it was a block from our hotel so we got in my rental car and drove a few blocks to a place I had been on Monday, Pawley's Front Porch.
We got the video edited just in time. I had shot the footage, Kevin did the interviewing and the narration and we shared the editing. It's just a simple little story that could be better, but it showed us how easy it is for students to put something together of interest for a student newspaper website.
We had so much fun there that Kevin and I and three others went there for dinner tonight. I had another great hamburger, we shared fired oysters and fried pickles and had a lot of interesting conversation about our experiences and what we've learned this week. It was great time.
Here's the video:
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