Sorry I haven’t posted out here in a while. I’ve been pretty busy. Last week, we had a special presentation from Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times Interactive News Technologies team. You can read the story about his talk and watch the video on the TX State SJMC Web Site. Here are some additional […]
Texas State University was selected as the site for the American Press Institute’s Visual Journalism Workshop. Over 60 students, faculty and professionals attended this session that covered visual strategies for both print and Web. Great discussion was held around the topics and there was much enthusiasm about the importance of visual storytelling. Check out the […]
If you’re a blogger, you know that feeling. You read something and you just can’t wait to blog about it. You’re jumping out of your skin before you can get the source article forwarded around to all your friends and colleagues. Well, today was one of those days. I saw this fantastic piece on nymag.com […]
In the Winter 2008 issue, Harvard’s Nieman Reports provides special coverage of a hot topic: trends in digital journalism. The issue, entitled The Search for True North: New Directions in a New Territory, features 39 articles by veteran journalists, academics and students, regarding the massive changes and competitive threats the industry is dealing with as […]
Merry Christmas everyone. Just getting caught up on some news here. I made a post the other day entitled Trouble in the Newspaper Biz, in which I discussed some proposed business models for the newspaper industry to try. Some other interesting articles have come out in the past few days. Joel Brinkley in How To […]
In the fall 2008 edition of the AEJMC Communication Technology newsletter, Jacob Groshek, Teaching Chair, wrote a very thought-provoking piece entitled “Hands On, Minds Off: Engaging Defeatist Students in Learning Technology.” In it, he described the challenges of teaching technology skills labs, when one or more students seemed to be paralyzed by the material. He […]
