Tag: online journalism

Journalism education links, part deux

A brief follow-up to this previous post on journalism education:

Time for the r/evolution of journalism education « Reportr.net

Reviving the J-School :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education

Are journalism schools dying? | The News is NowPublic.com

Thanks to Alfred Hermida’s Reportr.net for the post (the first item) and the two links.

Worldview: To put journalism education in a more global context, here are some reads on journalism education in China:

For China’s Journalism Students, Censorship Is a Core Concept

The Uncertain Future of Journalism Education in China

Here are some journalism-related articles and a blog post I wrote while in China last summer on a feature writing study abroad trip (Shanghai Journalism Project):

Documenting Shanghai’s documentary TV channel

Communication University not unlike Western schools

Beijing newspaper looks to be more ‘cosmopolitan’

Chinese university students give insight on education

Times correspondent fulfilling career dream in China

Journalism journey continues at university, newspaper

A day of television and acrobatics (blog)

A trip to the Everglades

I journeyed to Everglades National Park with a photographer, visual journalism student Johnfrank Dieguez, Friday to report a project for my CNJ 595 In-Depth Reporting for Convergent Media, which I took last semester.

Our subject was La’Keisha Harris, a law enforcement park ranger. Johnfrank took the pictures and I captured audio; we make a good team.

The class project will eventually result in audio slideshows and text stories about various National Park Service employees for the agency’s diversity recruitment program Web site, the link to which I’ll post when our piece for the site is posted. The site was designed by another class, CVJ 341, last semester.

Additional student groups will visit other parks during the course of this semester for the site.

Poynter site redesign process: A good model

I really like how Poynter is approaching their site redesign, it provides a good model for how TheMiamiHurricane.com, and others, should go about it.

Here’s a video from Poynter’s YouTube channel:

For more information about their redesign, check out the Poynter Online – Poynterevolution page.

Newspaper site traffic data

From Editor & Publisher online, citing Nielsen Online:

EXCLUSIVE: Our Monthly Top 30 Most Popular Newspaper Sites — ‘Newsday’ Pulls Ahead of WSJ.com

By the numbers:

Brand or Channel — Unique Audience (000) — Year-over-year % Change

NYTimes.com — 17,177 — 29.9%
USATODAY.com — 9,939 — 9.1%
washingtonpost.com — 8,478 — 11.2%
Newsday — 6,450 — 182.8%
Wall Street Journal Online — 5,409 — 109.0%

LA Times — 4,607 — (-6.4%)
Boston.com — 4,364 — 15.0%
Chicago Tribune — 3,891 — 14.0%
Daily News Online Edition — 2,956 — 23.2%
New York Post — 2,851 — (-5.7%)

SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle — 2,785 — (-30.9%)
Philly.com — 2,300 — 33.4%
International Herald Tribune — 2,250 — 14.9%
Village Voice Media — 2,224 — 70.6%
Chicago Sun-Times — 2,186 — 8.3%

Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 1,974 — 26.2%
The Houston Chronicle — 1,946 — (-18.6%)
The Seattle Times — 1,840 — (-19.3%)
DallasNews.com – The Dallas Morning News — 1,828 — 21.9%
Seattle Post-Intelligencer — 1,785 — (-0.1%)

The Politico — 1,672 — N/A
Orlando Sentinel — 1,522 — 78.6%
NJ.com — 1,455 — 40.1%
Azcentral.com — 1,435 — (-36.6%)
Baltimore Sun — 1,332 — 26.2%

MercuryNews.com — 1,315 — (-15.1%)
The Detroit News — 1,256 — 21.4%
The San Diego Union-Tribune — 1,180 — 10.4%
Detroit Free Press — 1,168 — (-22.9%)
The Washington Times — 1,161 — (-24.9%)

Weigh in: Does Newsday pulling ahead of WSJ surprise you?

Quick tip: Use RSS

RSS feeds are a great way to get news and updates. I use Google Reader, which I find very easy and clean with plenty of good features. I also check it on my smartphone from time to time. Whatever reader you choose to use, you will find it makes your online life so much easier–no more millions of tabs open with endless news and blog posts to read.

RSS is short for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary

Here are some good references from Megan Taylor’s blog, SOJo: Student of Online Journalism, for those who are not familiar with RSS. The first post is from today, the others I found under “Most Popular Posts.”

Weigh in: Do you use RSS feeds? If so, what reader do you use?