Chris Cobbler, publisher of the greeleytrib.com, says all journalists at newspapers should blog. He is brutally frank about how journalists should learn from bloggers. He says if you post blog after blog and get no reaction, that means no one is reading it. The same is probably true for what is published in print.
It is a good eye-opener for print journalists who think that cyber publishing is for the birds. No one has time to read longform journalism anymore, so keep it short and readable.
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Why journalists should blog
SMART PHONES FOR BACKPACK JOURNALISM
This link is useful for students who will be using their smartphones to shoot video:
http://ijnet.org/stories/eight-tips-using-iphone-reporting
When they get into the real working world of journalism. students will have to become comfortable with multi-platform reporting. The days of just reporting or shooting video or photographs are long gone. So the best tool for a journo is to get a smartphone, preferably the iPhone which has any number of aps for editing and downloading pictures and video.
Password Dilemma
Thanks to Tech Tools classmate Dave for his post on how to store passwords. He says he has more than a 100, but as I looked through my notebook where I had my passwords written down, I realized I had half that number. Of course you may not be needing them all the time, but it’s useful to know where to find them when needed.
Tip from Dave about storing passwords: LastPass
Federal Writers Proejct
I think the tip for this link was from Dave. I wrote it down in a hurry and my apologies if they’re not from Dave.
Anyway, this link is useful for both my English Composition and Journalism classes.
According to the website, it was funded by the federal government under the New Deal during the Great Depression in order to support written work during desperate economic and social times. A number of different projects were undertaken for this initiative, among them was the Folklore Project which consisted of interviewing everyday people from all walks of life from across the country.
Students not only document the life of the person for a worldwide internet population, but also critically examine the processes of historical production involved in creating life histories in the Federal Writers’ Project.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Federal_Writers%27_Project_-_Life_Histories
BLOGGING FOR JOURNALISTS
This a useful site about live blogging for journalists
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/12-liveblogging-tips-for-journalists/s2/a550338/
My students are familiar with the concept of blogs, but appear to be reluctant to try it themselves. This site will help them get started and gain more confidence. I too will be learning along with them. It is imperative that they become familiar because if they ever work in the media, they will need it.
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