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Is shorthand necessary in a Web world or is it just a useful skill?

By Jared | Published: May 15, 2008
Last week I came across a post from Dave Lee about journalism and shorthand. He describes how learning shorthand is under debate in UK j-schools, where the skill appears to have a strong following. In fact one of the comments berates any journalist who doesn’t know a form of shorthand: Anyone who thinks it is [...]
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Multimedia reporting ethics

By Jared | Published: May 8, 2008
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 [...]
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