Journalism, the World and the Future
Discussion of the future of journalism from GMU
Archive for March, 2011
First posted at SPJDC.org, the website of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Hong Kong University Journalism and Media Center sponsored a talk by Rutgers University media researcher, Nick Diakopoulos late last month. The topic: Innovation and Computing in Journalism. “As information comes at us faster and faster, we have more […]
I have argued with journalists and cajoled students into thinking globally with their local stories. Here is an example of how a Washington correspondent for a New Jersey paper linked Pres. Obama’s current trip to Brazil with very local issues in New Jersey. First posted at my Journalism, Journalists and the World site. Congratulations to Herb […]
To my former students: You thought I was tough. Thanks to the GAWKER you can see what a story looks like in the editing process when a Washington Post editor gets hold of it. Here’s a Washington Post Story With All the Editor’s Notes In It My edits only looked worse because I used green […]
Anyone want to run a class on comparing data tables and why some comparison are not accurate? Does owning a passport reduce or prevent diabetes? The maps from Boing Boing seem to indicate it is so.
