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Seeing the Light on Citizen Journalism: Occupy LA Coverage
I’m going to be honest. I never really jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon. Given the choice between a professionally turned story and a CJ-turned story, I’m picking the professional story 99 times out of 100. It’s nothing personal against citizen journalists, and I realize they’ve done some very good work. It just isn’t my [...]
SXSWi.
So this is it. The calm before the storm. SXSWi starts tomorrow. To be honest, I feel woefully unprepared. But I don’t think there’s enough time to ever be fully prepared for something on the scale of SXSWi. Plus, it didn’t help that I woke up pretty sick this morning. I’m expecting a lot this [...]
Social Media and Jobs.
It’s an interesting debate that we bring up with students all the time. How much and what material should you have on social media sites? These days, it’s pretty safe to say a majority of newsrooms are looking at a potential reporter’s Facebook or Twitter page before making a hire. (This post takes a look [...]
CU to Close J-School.
Some interesting news broke late Wednesday afternoon. No, not that GMail is adding phone calls to your email – although that is pretty cool. I’m actually talking about an article in the Denver Post about the University of Colorado’s journalism school. Turns out, Colorado is looking to close it’s traditional J-School and open a new [...]
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