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Starting a new job can be daunting. As a community or social media manager, the fact that you get to talk to people on Twitter doesn’t make this any less true.
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Journalism schools have to go where the puck is Globe and Mail Journalism schools are caught in a dilemma: Should journalism curricula reflect the media's needs as they are now or should J-schools be more experimental and in effect, become think...
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This from the post: "Journalism schools and organizations need to stop being complicit in preparing students for the past. The courses still taught most often teach skills that worked well 10 to 20 years ago. But media organizations haven’t been clear either about what they want or need from J-schools. Innovation in our journalism schools remains the needed and missing link that will blend new and old skills along with an appreciation of the business challenges that threaten the survival of journalism as we have known it." Delete the scoop?
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Tech2 Anti-social media app helps you avoid Foursquare friends NBCNews.com (blog) While Hell Is Other People is described as "partially a satire" by its creator, the Web app might be a blessing to those who just want to feel alone in a crowd.
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Repost creates an embed code for a whole article, allowing you to embed it in the same way as you would a YouTube or Vimeo video
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For anyone who has been following the evolution of the media industry over the past several years, the idea that news can find its own path to an audience now — whether it’s directly from a source via the social web or tools like Twitter, or...
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Business Insider Facebook Will Launch A News Reader At June 20th Press Event TechCrunch The upcoming death of Google Reader and the addition of hashtags signal Facebook will likely launch a news reader at the June 20th press event it's just sent...
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If you want to livestream video or upload a large file while in the field, this app allows you to test the speed of the connection
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Sri Lanka's citizen journalism website Groundviews also archives tweets as a 'public record'
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Should the government know less than Google?
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How journalists can adapt to the changing news sphere? Here are three things to retain the narrative appetite. Delete the scoop?
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Earlier this week, Google solidified their take on so-called “native advertising,” one that they have been slowly crafting due to the rise of these advertisements in places like BuzzFeed and the Atlantic.
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“New perspectives from the sky,” a study by Dr. Mark Tremayne and Andrew Clark published in Digital Journalism, can help you with that.
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How to tell if a journalist is a patsy (used! Delete the scoop?
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When you bet on a strict, un-leaky paywall as The Times of London has, you’re forced to get creative about how to put your work in front of new audiences — particularly if you’re trying to influence their opinions.
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How Do We Make Freelance Journalism Sustainable? PBS MediaShift Last month the Chicago Sun Times fired its entire staff of photographers -– 28 full-time journalists — and plans to rely primarily on freelancers.
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Geeky gadgets Facebook to unveil Instagram video on June 20, report says CNET Facebook to unveil Instagram video on June 20, report says.
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Business Insider Twitter Is Testing A New Feature To Help You Find Who Your Friends Are ...
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ReadWrite Twitter Tries Harder to Explain Itself All Things Digital That's part of why Twitter is stepping up its efforts to become less opaque to the millions of first-timers to the service, releasing a series of instructional consumer videos and...
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Advice shared by followers of @journalismnews and @freelance_hacks
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Take this quiz. The era of paying for digital access (a.k.a. digital circulation or paywalls) is about: Getting more money out of core subscribers; Getting new money out of new subscribers; or Getting money any way you can.
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The executive director of J-Lab says it's time for news to move from a commodity to a catalyst for empowering citizens.
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Interesting take on what news should be here, of particular relevance to hyperlocals. From the post: "How to move news from a commodity to a catalyst for empowering citizens."
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mmmmm...think community engagement, activism and advocacy are fantastic pursuits, but why banner under journalism? journalism's role is not to make the story or be the story...
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Facebook first: Before launching a new magazine, the publisher builds communities on social media and sets up a blog
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Fascinating case study of how a publisher can build a community on social media around a title they are yet to launch.
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