Sunday squibs

A few things I’ve come across, none of which have anything to do with football:

• My 22 Best On-Camera Interviewing Tips Ever. Thomas R. Clifford offers 22 bits of sound advice (pun intended) for conducting interviews. A nice list with some items you won’t find on the typical j-school handout.
• Journalism in a world of open code and open self-education. One I’ve been dragging around for a while: a Doc Searls post at Linux Journal that is not long but is deep, with thought, speculation and questions about the nature of participatory journalism in an age of self-learning. (Sorry, that’s a little too narrow, but as close as I can come to recap.)
• Journalists plan to head for the exits. Another one from a couple of weeks back, this time Doug Fisher commenting on a Ball State University study that reports “almost three-quarters of newspaper journalists 34 and younger who were questioned intend to leave journalism or aren’t sure about their futures.” Being unsure of the future is, on the whole, a good thing. Losing journalists, not so much.
• Medals of Memory. These may be tough times for media businesses, but they are great times for journalism. Medals of Memory, a multimedia story from the Naples News, is a good example of that and a sterling bit of storytelling. While the presentation suffers from a little in the “Profiles” section (I can’t get the audio and the photos at the same time), Army Specialist Jolene Wieber’s story, told in both text-and-photos and video, is good, strong journalism.