Assaulting intellectual honesty: O’Keefe tries to sting Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky
Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!! » Pressthink. The link above, to Jay’s PressThink blog, contains his transparent accounting of the story behind the spurious and specious story that James O’Keefe is trying to present as a “truth.” It also features [...]
Help me create a media technology management course
i’ve been asked to put together a course in media technology management as part of a new curriculum we’re developing that serves the demand for media entrepreneurship education. as i’ve been writing away at it, i thought i’d reach out and see what you’d like to learn or think should be considered as part of [...]
Dropping a bomb in the tenure meeting
So our Journalism Division faculty met today on creating new guidelines about merit and tenure. And, always the troublemaker, I dropped the bomb on the discussion. Tenure, as practiced and preached doesn’t make sense to me. I tweeted about it, and got a few questions (and a lot of props) so here’s the full story [...]
What’s The Point Of Journalism School, Anyway? : NPR
“I don’t believe it when people say journalism is dead,” Schweitzer says. “I’m the one raising my hand saying, ‘No it’s not!’ I think it will always exist.” But the question lingers. At USC, undergraduate tuition alone reaches $40,000, and, when taken with fees, books, room, board and other charges, a year’s cost can exceed [...]
Technology in the classroom [infographic] – Holy Kaw!
Technology in the classroom [infographic] – Holy Kaw!.
Liveblog of TBD/American University liveblogging workshop – @TBD Community | TBD.com
On Saturday, I spent the morning running a seminar for bloggers in the new TBD network that was also well attended by AU students. @stevebuttry did a liveblog and the other attendees contributed by tweeting in. Click the link below the phone pic from @ethanklapper to see what you may have missed. Liveblog of TBD/American [...]
Journalism Educators: How are you staying current?
I’m presenting at the American Association of University Professor’s conference this weekend on the challenges of keeping journalism school curriculum updated and relevant during the dynamic digital age we’re in. In addition to our own war stories of dealing with AEJMC standards and curriculum review processes, I’m hoping other educators also engaged in this important [...]
Hunter walker: 10 Ways To Earn More Than You Can Working At The Columbia Journalism Review
Ex-newspaper industry executive Alan Mutter coined the phrase “journicide” to describe the “looming, lost generation” of young reporters abandoning the profession due to “vanishing employment opportunities and shrinking freelance compensation.” Along with the recession, unethical media industry practices like internships and “permalance” jobs are fueling this trend. J-schools need to fight the media sweatshop mentality. [...]
SOC Snow Days | American University School of Communication
This is a great story about how my colleagues on the faculty at American University’s School of Communication have kept teaching despite back-to-back blizzards that shut down most of the capital city. We all got it done using various communication technologies online and really, what else would you expect — we do teach people how [...]
Teaching entrepreneurial journalism « BuzzMachine
Blogging a link to the notes @jeffjarvis took on last week’s conference call for teaching entrepreneurial journalism. Sorry I missed out on the call, I’ve been teaching some of this material in my courses at AU SOC for a few years now, starting back when I was an adjunct. My first materials came from Bob [...]