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Journalists Should Customize Social Networks to Maximize Experience

Via Media Shift by Roland Legrand Online social networks are essential tools for journalists. They make it possible to build extended networks, search for story ideas, build contacts and dig up information. But even more important, they help to shake … Continue reading

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How Journalists Are Using Twitter in Australia

Via Media Shift by Julie Posetti, May 27, 2009 Twitter became big news once journalists realized its power as a tool for breaking stories during the Mumbai Massacre in 2008. In the aftermath of the micro-blogging platform hitting the headlines, … Continue reading

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J-Students Take Multiplatform Approach to City Politics

Via Media Shift by Alfred Hermida, December 1, 2008 Here’s a recipe for how to cover local elections. Take a bunch of bright and eager journalism students. Give them two weeks to fan out across the city and come back … Continue reading

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For Laid-Off Journalists, Free Blog Accounts

Via the New York Times By JENNA WORTHAM Published: November 23, 2008 It’s a long way from $700 billion, but the media start-up Six Apart is introducing its own economic bailout plan. The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program offers recently terminated … Continue reading

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Learning How to Make Multimedia Story Decisions

Via Media Shift by Alfred Hermida, October 27, 2008 Multimedia journalism is one of those terms often used to refer to a wide range of online content. Recently, I began a discussion with my students at the UBC Graduate School … Continue reading

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Journalists Consider Risks, Conflicts of Running Personal Blogs

Via Media Shift by Simon Owens, October 7, 2008 Tagged: cnn, ethics, kcrw, zdnet Implementing strategies developed by millions of office workers who have honed the practice of flipping from computer solitaire to spreadsheets at the first sign of a … Continue reading

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Can Pulitzer Contest Boost Serious Journalism on YouTube?

Via Media Shift by Mike Rosen-Molina, September 25, 2008 Tagged: contests, journalism, videocameras, videos, youtube Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in … Continue reading

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Can Pulitzer Contest Boost Serious Journalism on YouTube?

Via Media Shift by Mike Rosen-Molina, 12:13PM Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in getting us the first glimpses of developing news, … Continue reading

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Journalism Grads Need Basic Skills Plus Openness, Flexibility

Via MediaShift by Alfred Hermida, 6:25PM   Alfred Hermida At journalism schools, professors like myself are trying to figure out what we should be teaching students so they can succeed in the newsrooms of today and tomorrow. At the recent … Continue reading

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YouTube Takes Another Shot at Journalism

Via Mashable YouTube has announced a contest for aspiring documentarians and journalists to take home $10,000 for creating a series of journalistic pieces to go towards beefing up their “reporter” content selection. This isn’t the first thing they’ve done to … Continue reading

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