Category Archives: journalism
Education 2.0 | The Internet makes us the computer wearing tennis shoes
I’ve got a confession. I love the ’95 remake of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, the one with Kirk Cameron —not Kurt Russell. Having access to all that information just seemed really cool. For those unfamiliar, here’s a quick summary: This average guy, Dexter Reilly, zaps himself working on a state-of-the-art computer and suddenly he’s [...]
Spot.us goes live, journalism may yet be saved
Today, like last week, is another historic day. Not as historic mind you, but pretty good nonetheless. That’s right, Spot.us is live. The brainchild of Dave Cohn seeks to connect the community with journalism on a whole new level — the pocketbook. Spot.us lets people pitch and gather funds so a reporter can write the [...]
TNTJ: What I want to do in journalism — Covering the environment as a journalist who cares
This post is part of this month’s “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists.” Each month a group of young journalists picks a topic to blog about, similar to “The Carnival of Journalism.” For October 2008, the TNTJ topic is What would your ideal journalism job be and why? I wasn’t always interested in journalism. In high school [...]
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Learning from “The Rocky Mountain News”