teaching What are the ingredients for creating a journalism portfolio? I’m currently putting together the details for one of my modules for Semester 2. It’s called Multiplatform Journalism and its aimed at first-year journalism students. The general aim is to introduce them to the idea of digital informed journalism in a genre
Pondering Email in a social media world A little observation I wanted to share. Over the summer I went away for a few weeks and put my out-of-office message on. At the same time I had a few students emailing me questions about assignments and I was surprised that some of
academic Advice to journalism students for being online. Its getting to that point in the academic calendar where I’m writing documentation for the modules I’ll be teaching this year. Looking back over previous years, I’ve noticed how bits of information appear and disappear in the guidance notes I write;
journalism Elite Media trolls, banter and journalism The Guardian’s James Ball has an interesting , and suitably search-bait-headlined, comment on internet trolls that’s worth a read. The last par is the kicker: The transformative promise of
journalism Argentina's Clarín gets to grip with convergence : exploring multilingual social media The wonders of Twitter, tweetdeck and google translate meant that I got an interesting insight into the way Clarín, the biggest newspaper in Argentina, is approaching the challenge of a converged newsroom. What caught my eye was a the visualization of the ‘new editorial
blogging On blogs and social media ennui My social media habits have changed over the years. I’ve never been particularly organised or disciplined so I tend to drift in and out of things – I have no strategy for my social media use. That may come as no surprise to some
social media Ivory tower dispatch: Social networks are personal Over the last semester I’ve been spending a lot of time talking about the use of social networks; how and why they might be useful/important/problematic to journalists.
journalism Ivory tower dispatch: Fast and slow journalism and innovation must die The Al Jazeera English newsroom – Not available as a google app (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A diverse range of things in the ivory tower this week. Balancing personal and professional social media identities was still on the agenda – the mantra was you might not use
generation game Social media for journalists is like The Generation game [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)http://youtu.be/EO0c03Y5Bjg This week (as a earlier post suggests) I’ve been kicking off teaching with a look at social media and how journos can use it to create a presence. That presence isn’t just about
facebook Pages of pages: Journalists and (self)promotion [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/38845206@N03/7420240204)Shouting about yourself on Wikipedia is not big or clever (Photo credit: Platform4)
arab spring The responsibilities of the journalist in the internet age. [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)**This the text from my lecture to the undergrad and post grad journalism students for their Ethics module this week. It’s slightly amended to:** **make sense ** stop me from getting punched in the face if I ever meet
california Social media in the newsroom - a small example [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)A fantastic series of articles by [Robert Patterson ](http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/)on the online efforts of Californian outfit KBPS during last years fires. I was going to type reporting efforts there but it’s clear
