Aug
20
Back from a four-day getaway, where I was alternatively assaulted by heat and thunderstorms in the shadows of the Rockies, and ready to go again:
- Car trouble. How do I explain this to my students? A reporter and editor are apparently no longer with a fairly large community newspaper here in B.C. because a rather innocuous article pissed off a local car dealer.
- US: 900 newsroom layoffs in 5 months. And news like this is tough on my students, too. I still firmly believe that there will be an increasing demand for journalists, but not all will find themselves in traditional settings.
- J-school education: Confused and concerned. Don’t be fooled by the headline: Doug Fisher’s post, expanded on greatly in the comments, is a great look at the confusion and concern in the industry as well. I recommend this highly.
- That video thing. I’d like to recommend to you several pieces about newspapers and video. Howard Owens, in Online video strategy is not about getting GAS, has more to add to the high vs. low end equipment debate. The long tail is a newspaper video strategy is Ryan Sholin’s latest on how newspapers present video. Both pieces contain much wisdom. Seven Myths About Online Video isn’t journalism-related, but there’s stuff there for everyone.
- Four trends in newspaper website navigation design. Will Sullivan looks at how newspapers are getting their stuff in front of the readers. Instructive.
- The role of the image on the Social Web. Dennis Dunleavy ponders the collision of the personal and the social, and how quickly the ‘net can spread and change images. It points, I think, to another, subtler disruption of the role media has played.
