Canada’s journalism schools emphasize multimedia

Canada’s journalism schools are putting more emphasis on online journalism and multimedia, The Financial Post reports. David Beers, founder of online news magazine theTyee.ca and unstructor at UBC, recommends keeping the following pointers in mind when students are job hunting…

June 19, 2008 by
Filed Under: Education, Online News and Convergence Tips, Tips and Tools

Seven Traits of Highly Effective Community Managers

Tish Grier says community managers “should understand people well and be good at creating and maintaining relationships and ability to create relationships, regardless of which tools are available.”

June 17, 2008 by
Filed Under: Citizen Journalism Tips, Online News and Convergence Tips, Social Media, Tips and Tools

8 simple rules for succeeding on the Web

Here are Jon Friedman’s eight simple rules to ensure success on the Internet.

June 12, 2008 by
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WSJ: washingtonpost.com’s ‘Hyperlocal Flop’

The Wall Street Journal looks at why washingtonpost.com’s hyperlocal experiment led by Rob Curley, LoudonExtra.com, hasn’t attracted the audience that was hoped.

June 4, 2008 by
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Pulitzers and the Web

Online journalism is increasingly playing a role in the Pulitzer Prize judging. In this Q&A, Sig Gissler discusses the role the web played in this year’s decisions. Plus, links to the online components that factored into the winning choices.

April 10, 2008 by
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Inside a Citizen Journalism Newsroom

The Chi-Town Daily News shares its techniques for developing a corps of volunteer reporters and keeping them on track.

April 3, 2008 by
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BBC releases social networking guidelines

The BBC has published two new guidance notes about the use of social networking sites.

April 1, 2008 by
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Facebook as a news tool

Here are some questions to consider when using online networks in your reporting, from Poynter’s Ellyn Angelotti.

March 24, 2008 by
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Four ways to engage our readers

 Bill Densmore, director of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, proposes that there are four ways of “serving news-hungry consumers” — navigator, valet, referee, teacher/coach.

March 16, 2008 by
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NYT writer: Blogs complement traditional print

Publishing 2.0′s Scott Karp asked  New York Times writer and blogger Saul Hansell for his perspective as on the blog format vs. the traditional article format, and about the critical issue of whether new online formats like blogs create more work for journalists:

January 11, 2008 by
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