Maybe we could get a few student journalists and j-profs to submit material to this project to see if we can get what we do and why included. Life In A Day: July 24

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. Interesting story in the Times magazine this weekend: Digital Diplomacy. It got me thinking that just 10-15 years ago the State Department was at the absolute bottom of rankings in use of technology. The main State HQ in Washington and the embassies around the world still depended […]

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World and the SPJ International Committee blog. I have to admit, from the time I heard CNN had fired Octavia Nasr for her Tweet on the death of Hezbollah spiritual leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah I was upset she wrote what she did and at the same time […]

I got my “Today in History” feed this morning and saw two things that jumped out at me: Today, June 12, is the anniversary of: The murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, and The 1963 killing of Medgar Evers. Now in the normal world — that world outside the shouting heads […]

The other day I posted a couple of notes about the new Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism report on new and old media. Pew report shows gap in international views of old and new media Pew Report: Old Media/New Media I saw in that two key issues that journalists and their bosses […]