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Online courses can help journalism teachers get needed training and needed credit
Offering Online Training for High School Journalism Teachers is being led by Candace Bowen (Kent State), Cheryl Pell (Michigan State) and Vanessa Shelton (Iowa). They are sharing information about their online courses. Motivations for starting online courses are: Provide teachers with the opportunity to take classes that don’t required being on campus. That is particularly […]
Does removing a blog comment make you responsible for potentially libelous material in your blog?
“If you remove one comment from a blog, are you libel for the other comments on your blog?” We turned to Mark Goodman, Knight Chair of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State. No, he said. You may even edit a comment as long as you don’t change the intent of the comment.
Comments on blogs can cause journalists concerns, but problems with comments can be addressed
Mindy said that comments on blogs cause concern for newspapers. But she said that doesn’t have to be a concern: You can delete any comment — it’s your blog. Do not delete a comment only because it disagrees with what you wrote. Read comments often. Respond often. Do not respond to every comment. I agree […]
Good example of blogger is Michigan State grad
When Mindy gave Jamie Gumbrecht as an example of a good blogger, Cheryl Pell perked up. Jamie is a grad of Michigan State, where Cheryl is on the faculty. Cheryl had her iPhone at hand and sent a tweet about Jamie.
JEA/NSPA convention promotes change for student media
I’m attending the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association convention in Washington, D.C., with 6,300 high school journalism and teachers. The standard sessions on yearbook theme and newspaper design contests are on the program, but the winds of change are in the air. At the scholastic press association directors roundtable, our major topic was organizational […]
Editors of student publications encourage students to get published
We’ve reached the time in the semester when the students in Writing for Mass Communication are working on a story that has publication potential. We instructors for the course certainly would like to see as many students as possible get published. By getting published, students have to go through the process of working with an […]
St. Petersburg Times cuts salaries by 5 percent, phases out health coverage for company’s retirees
The budget cuts that have hit media organizations across the country continue with another announcement yesterday — this one from St. Petersburg Times editor Paul Tash. Jim Romenesko’s blog at Poynter posted Tash’s memo to the St. Pete Times company staff announcing a 5 percent salary cut for all employees beginning Nov. 2. The second part […]
“Can we lie?”
The topic for today’s lecture was writing personality profiles, as that is the writing assignment for the next two writing labs. We discussed interviewing techniques and story structure. We used someone almost everyone has read a profile of — UF’s quarterback Tim Tebow — to provide an example of focusing the profile and collecting anecdotes […]
How the media can help us remember 9/11
This morning, I was listening to Morning Edition on National Public Radio. Host Steve Inskee announced the time was about 8:45 Eastern Standard Time, which I thought was unusual, as the hour typically isn’t given because the program is being listened to in different time zones. Inskee continued by reminding us that at 8:46 eight […]
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