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A Student’s Perspective on Online Learning at Syracuse
Click on the image to read the whole series Today, I had a Twitter exchange with a few classmates as to whether the word “Internet” should be capitalized. Our professor chimed in by tweeting about the...
View ArticleUpcoming Training and Courses: Aug. 18 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
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How Bottlenecks at Journalism Schools Stretch Degrees to 6 Years
As University of Wisconsin-Madison seniors donned their commencement caps and gowns, fourth-year journalism student Polo Rocha was en route to Arizona for a New York Times summer program. Rocha will...
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In Memoriam: Dan Reimold, The Voice for College Media
The MediaShift team is shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Dan Reimold, a contributor, friend and inspiration for all of us doing our best to usher in the next generation of journalists. Dan...
View ArticleUpcoming Training and Courses: Aug. 25 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
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A Rewarding Journalism Innovation Project on the Eve of Destruction
Our experimental project calling for faster innovation in journalism and journalism education, Searchlights and Sunglasses, is approaching its second birthday. So it’s just about time to destroy it. I...
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Journalism Students Experience Castro’s Cuba at a Turning Point
Forbidden. That was our collective sense of Cuba these past 50 years, as trade embargoes and mass mistrust framed relations between our two countries. Yet as journalism instructors, we remained...
View Article#EdShift Chat: Reporting on Trauma in the Social Media Age
Reporting on trauma is challenging and emotional enough without the added stress of how to handle and cover graphic video, photos or first-hand accounts being shared on social media. Those covering the...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Sept. 1 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
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Remix: Use Hybrid Courses to Stimulate Online Learning
My experience teaching at West Virginia University tells me that a hybrid format works well for digital journalism courses. I want to share with fellow instructors how we structure a dual-instructor...
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Remix: How to Teach Flexibility to Broadcast Students
If there’s one thing that’s predictable in a local television newsroom, it’s that hardly anything is predictable. The stories reporters are assigned to do can change in an instant for a myriad of...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Sept. 9 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
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How J-Schools Can Promote Local Journalism Innovation
Co-authored with Josh Stearns Editor’s Note: This post was written before a big announcement: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Wednesday it will open a new research center to...
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Research Project Explores Nexus of Citizenship, Democracy and Journalism
One of the cornerstones of journalism, and therefore of journalism education, is the principle of the Fourth Estate, or even what journalist and educator Douglass Cater called “the fourth branch of...
View Article#EdShift Chat: Using Social Media to Get a Job
Getting a job has always been about who you know. But now, savvy use of social media networks allows job hunters to connect more directly — and effectively — with those who might hire them. Our...
View ArticleUpcoming Trainings and Courses: Sept. 17 Edition
Each week, MediaShift will list upcoming online trainings and courses for journalists and media people — with a focus on digital training. We’ll include our new DigitalEd courses, as well as those from...
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What I Learned Meeting Innovators in East Coast Media
This summer, I had the opportunity to spend a few weeks on the East Coast visiting a range of digital media organizations. I had been planning to do this for quite some time, really embed with the most...
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Can Cultural Research Improve News?
This piece is written with students in the Senior Multimedia Capstone at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Journalism students tend to go through college...
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How Journalist’s Resource Can Help Your Classes
Co-authored with Kasey Windels As professors in communications programs at two large public Universities (the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University and the School of...
View ArticleEdShift Chat: How To Shoot Video on Mobile Devices
We’re at a point where the video capability on our phones nearly matches that of expensive video cameras. For those teaching students and professionals how to shoot video, mobile considerations are...
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