I’ve got some news to share with you, and it’s big. We’ve had some great success with Texas State students getting fantastic jobs in the digital media realm, and we are exceedingly proud of every one of them. The New Media Concentration students in our graduate program have gone on to new and challenging roles […]
I have been thinking a lot lately about strategies for preparing students for the future. A few weeks ago, I had some recent alumni visit with my Fundamentals of Digital/Online Media class in conjunction with our student chapter of Social Media Club. Maira Garcia, who is the Social Media Editor at Austin American-Statesman, Mairin Heard, […]
The Carnival of Journalism is a site that asks a monthly question about the future of journalism (carnival.digitalnewsroom.org/). The project was started by David Cohn, formerly of Spot.us and now working with the new endeavor Circa. This month’s question is managed by a team of students at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism led […]
[View the story “Twitter Scavenger Hunt at Texas State” on Storify]
I had the pleasure of sitting through the presentations for the Web Content Management Systems class taught by my colleague Jacie Yang. This was the first time she taught the class in our program, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the results were nothing less than amazing. It’s a graduate-level class. Some of […]
The news broke on Friday and was confirmed today on their blog, that the Austin-based location service Gowalla would soon be no longer. They are being acquired by Facebook, which means they are closing up shop in January and some of their employees (most likely developers) will be moving to Palo Alto to live out […]
This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the […]
I’m working on a chapter for a new version of the book The Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives, edited by Maxwell McCombs, Amber Willard Hinsley, Kelly Kaufhold and Seth Lewis. One of the features of my chapter is to develop some information boxes with interviews, Q&A’s or other supplementary material. I decided to […]