Be the mobile leader of your community

I will be leading a workshop this afternoon for the National Newspaper Association, Be the Mobile Leader of Your Community. My slides are below. Here are some previous mobile-first posts that may help participants in the workshop:

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@statesman shines again in breaking news Twitter coverage

@statesman has shown again today how to use Twitter to cover breaking news. In February, I noted the excellent job @statesman did in covering the terrorist attack on the IRS office in Austin. I was tied up in a meeting out of the office this morning, but I heard at a break about this morning’s [...]

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‘Anatomy of a News Startup’ tells of TBD, Project Argo launches

If you’re interested in the launch of TBD, General Manager Jim Brady explains a lot of the process in this video. Jim joined Matt Thompson, editorial product manager for NPR’s Project Argo, for “Anatomy of a News Startup” Sept. 16 at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies. The discussion was moderated by Carlos Roig, a [...]

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Liveblog of TBD/American U workshop on blogging #TBDAU

I’m doing a liveblog of a TBD/American University workshop, “Defining Your Blogging Voice,” led by David Johnson at AU’s School of Communication.

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Hockey should beg bloggers to go to visitors’ locker rooms

Did I miss that trend story about the National Hockey League suddenly being on top of the sports world? Maybe a sports league that’s drawing huge TV ratings and selling out arenas across North America could afford to disrespect bloggers, but I don’t think that’s the NHL. As our TBD Community Network partner On Frozen [...]

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TBD and American University offer blogging workshops

If you’re a blogger (or blogger wannabe) in the Washington area, I hope you’ll join us for a series of blogging workshops TBD is presenting in partnership with American University. The workshops start this Saturday morning at AU with a workshop on defining your blogging voice. Details on the whole program on a TBD blog [...]

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A message of solidarity from Buttry and Bugeja

By Steve Buttry and Michael Bugeja We agree more than we disagree about journalism education and its future. Buttry: Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University, and I aired a disagreement this week in comments on this blog and Tim McGuire’s McGuire on Media blog. Frankly, I [...]

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Reading resources on entrepreneurial journalism

This is a crosspost from the class blog for my entrepreneurial journalism class at Georgetown University. Please add other resources I should call to the students’ attention in the comments. I’ll also be compiling links to entrepreneurial projects. What links should I include on that list? These are some recommended resources on entrepreneurial journalism. Students [...]

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You can’t go back to the basics in journalism education; go forward with the basics

Journalism education needs an update. You can and must teach and honor the timeless fundamentals of journalism and still prepare journalists for the dynamic job market they will be entering. Journalists and educators who play the “basics” card in resisting overhauls of journalism curriculum fail to acknowledge how basic to journalism resourcefulness and problem-solving are. [...]

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Make Your Story Sing: Learn from songwriters how to tell stories in just a few words

This is the handout for my workshop on short narrative writing. I used to do this workshop quite often, but haven’t done it for a couple years. The handout was originally posted at No Train, No Gain. I am posting some of my NTNG handouts here, with some updating, because NTNG is no longer online. [...]

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Getting personal: Learning and telling life’s most intimate stories

This is the handout for my workshop on personal interviews. I used to do this workshop quite often, but haven’t done it for a couple years. The handout was originally posted at No Train, No Gain. I am posting some of my NTNG handouts here, with some updating, because NTNG is no longer online. Narrative [...]

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A salute to No Train, No Gain, a favorite experience

I hope this blog post is premature. I would love to retract it tomorrow as an error, but it appears to me that No Train, No Gain is dead. The website launched 10 years ago, so it lived a long life in Internet years. But I mourn nonetheless. I got involved in newsroom training as [...]

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