Curriculum advice for journalism schools

I haven’t spent this much time talking to journalism professors and students since I graduated from Texas Christian University (let’s just say some time ago).
I visited TCU last week to present seminars on the Complete Community Connection and journalism ethics in the digital age. And since I was sticking around for some memory-lane time, the [...]

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Trying out Twitter for fun and business

I’ll be teaching Getting Started with Twitter this Tuesday and Thursday at Kirkwood Community College. This post is designed to supplement the course. It is an updated, adapted version of earlier tip sheets I have done, most recently the Getting started in Twitter tips I provided in August for my Using Social Media for Business class. Those tips, of course, [...]

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American media need innovation, not subsidy

Update: Michael Schudson has responded to this post.
Whatever else it is, The Reconstruction of American Journalism is not comprehensive.
Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, authors of the Columbia University report, described their work in the Post today as a “comprehensive report.” They recommend federal subsidies for news organizations [...]

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New York Times social media editor off to a sociable start

First tweets tend to be pretty lame (mine was), often something like “trying to figure out this Twitter thing.”
Jennifer Preston of the New York Times got off to a better start, asking in her inaugural tweet Tuesday:
Hi, I’m the NYT’s new social media editor. More details later. How should @nytimes be using Twitter?
With 40 characters [...]

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Journalism ethics in social networks

This is a handout I use in Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards, an American Press Institute seminar underwritten by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. It doesn’t attempt to provide all the answers, but to ask a lot of questions for journalists and news organizations to consider as they use social networks for valid journalistic [...]

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Lots left to learn after a year of learning

My Sunday column:
As a young adult, I had this misguided notion that someday I would move from learning to knowing.
Haven’t reached that day yet.
As the calendar turns from one year to the next, many of us savor the year past and wonder what the year ahead might hold. As I look back on [...]

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