Texas Christian University’s student media are shifting to a digital-first approach this fall, producing content first and primarily for digital platforms.
I visited TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism in April, studying their student media operations and recommending sweeping changes. I’m back this week to lead a day of workshops for the students in the unified content team that will feed digital, broadcast and print media.
Links I will be recommending to the students for additional reading:
How a Digital First approach guides a journalist’s work
Digital First Journalists: What we value
10 ways to think like a Digital First journalist
Leading a Digital First newsroom
How Digital First succeeds at making money
We won’t spend a lot of time in these workshops talking about job-hunting, but because these journalists will soon be seeking jobs, I also am sharing some links on branding and job-hunting:
Use digital tools to showcase your career and your work
Confessions (strategies) of a branded journalist (or a journalist with a reputation, if you prefer)
Tips for finding your next job in digital journalism
Job-hunting advice for journalists selling skills in the digital market
Here are slides I’m using:
Here are some links to examples I used in my workshops (I’ll update this later with other links I might share spontaneously):
The Virginia Tech massacre liveblog from the Collegiate Times
Jay Westcott’s time-lapse photo project on a Cowboys-Redskins game and Jay’s How-I-did-it explainer
Maryjo Webster’s Making maps with Google Fusion tables
Des Moines Register’s Parkersburg tornado map
Ivan Lajara’s How to make a slideshow with Pinterest with Storify
Dave Jamieson’s Storify coverage of a snowstorm that snarled Washington traffic
Andy Carvin’s Storify of debunking a rumor
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