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Multimedia reporting ethics
Today I ran across an issue I don’t see a lot of people discussing in regard to online journalism: reporting ethics. Jim Killam’s last post over at the Innovation in College Media blog discusses the ethical issues of reporters that would produce both written copy and potential multimedia stories via the web. A brief summary [...]
Old media attitudes can’t translate online
Today my web journalism class was “treated” with a guest speaker — Morning Call columnist Bill White. White’s been a columnist for a long time, and it shows. While he writes both columns and blogs for the paper, there’s a definite preference for the printed product. He talks about regretting the personal elements in the [...]
MTV and Time: How Suribachi and reality TV help and hurt journalism
Time magazine decided to run an image of the second flag raising at Mt. Suribachi with a tree instead of the flag to highlight it’s global warming story. As NPR’s Talk of the Nation discussed today, not everyone was happy about the cover. — MTV added to the ever-expanding amount of “reality TV” last week [...]
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Mobile journalism kit
I decided to rummage through the things I carry with me when I’m reporting (read: all the time). For those curious few who didn’t click the link I’ve got the image — untagged — below: Basically if I’m in wireless hotspot I can publish anything either to my college’s newspaper site, this blog or anywhere [...]
Is shorthand necessary in a Web world or is it just a useful skill?