(Update: It occurred to me this afternoon, while going over some of the data from the NADBank study with my students, that there’s a serious weakness in the polling, which results in an under-reporting of daily newspaper readership in some Canadian cities. None of their figures, as far as I can determine, include ethnic media. [...]
I’m dragging around too many open browser tabs. Here’s what some of them contain. (I may post more later today, after class.) Eight things that journalism students should demand from their journalism schools. A great post from Robert Niles for both students and instructors. I’d like to think I’m doing a fairly good job with [...]
Over the past few days, the ‘net has served some substantive piece on almost all aspects of journalism. Among them, I found these worth setting aside the time to read and think about. Google’s Fast Flip – a cruel joke on the news industry. I like the Fast Flip interface and can see some value [...]
Journalism posts worth pondering from the past few days. Lists seem to be the theme. Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization. Dan Gillmor takes on “a few pet peeves about the way traditional journalists operate.” If newspapers want to pick a starting point, without getting into the whole news-is-a-conversation mindset, they [...]
With the unofficial end of summer, the web is filling up with interesting bits and pieces of journalism-related news and opinion. Some of the recent bits worth reading: Economist to charge readers for its online news content. The “how” and “how much” haven’t been decided yet, but it’s coming. The Economist, like the WSJ, probably [...]
Recent web discoveries include: Razón. Oh, I’m going to be spending a lot of time with the stories produced by this collective of documentary photographers, discovered through A Photo A Day. National Post relaunches Monday edition. The Canadian national daily killed its Monday edition to save money over the summer. Does its return indicate some [...]
Charlie Smith, who used to teach with us at Kwantlen before he was named editor of The Georgia Straight and made too busy to teach, had the best advice I’ve ever heard for student success. Charlie’s three simple rules for students were: show up, pay attention and do the work. Do those three, he’d tell [...]
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