Aug
7
Stuff you should know about:
- Good news for current journalism students. The job market for j-school grads remains largely unchanged from a year ago, according to this report.
- Photoshop CS2 & CS3 tips. I love this set of tips from Mark Hancock for automating and speeding up basic image corrections.
- Sign up now for the young journo blogging ring. Earlier, Amy Gahran pointed to a new E&P column highlighting what young journalists are up. Dropping in on the young journo blogging ring, once it gets established, might be a better way to keep track.
- How to (possibly) save newspapers. Cory Bergman has kicked off a nice discussion by picking up on musings from the former managing editor of the Denver Post, which includes this: “I’d send all my reporters home with a laptop. I would tell each of them his beat is now a circle with a radius of 12 blocks and the center of the circle is his house. I want to know everything that happens within those 12 blocks” My first take: the problem with that in most largish cities you would likely wind up with a bunch of reporting from upper middle class neighbourhoods.
- A Post-Mortem for Faneuil Media. Faneuil Media did some wonderful creative stuff with mapping and neighbourhood-based information but, alas, is no more. Rick Burnes’s look at what they did, and what they needed to know, is instructive.
- The Newspaper Industry’s Decline. An interesting, but not ground-breaking, Sky News interview with a media anaylist who is bullish on newspapers.
- Is citizen media creating a journalism of participation? Alfred Hermida reports on a study of citizen media sites that suggests one of the definitions of journalism may be changing significantly.
