Stories like this one from NPR make me anxious for our students, but I feel we are doing all we can to get them ready for a changing job market.
Stories like this one from NPR make me anxious for our students, but I feel we are doing all we can to get them ready for a changing job market.
Bryan Murley writes an excellent summation of the current state of college newspaper advertising. Our advertising is way down as well. The Creightonian, a weekly, is publishing smaller issues than in the past several years and trying to put more content online at creightonian.com. We are planning to cut the number of issues in the future as a cost-saving measure.
MediaShift . College Newspapers Finally Hit by Economic Downturn | PBS
I always watch inaugurations. I love the history and the formality and then the small touches that aren’t so informal. This one does seem different. It’s so amazing to see all the crowds, see the excitment there. As I watch NBC, I also have to laugh at the anchors, experts all vying for the best anecdote. Not sure who’s the winner quite yet.
More on Twitter. I’m on it, but I don’t quite get it. This tips may help me too.
From the Desk of David Pogue – Twittering Tips for Beginners – NYTimes.com
I really liked reading how a backpack journalist is making the mojo happen.
Rich Gordon has this column on Poynter Online that responds to a David Carr column on news as iTunes. What I like about both of them is the discussion that has to happen on how to pay for news and how to make sure that journalism — good journalism — continues even in this changing environment.
Amy Gahran from Poynter posted this on her Tidbits blog. It looks a great resource for those of us testing the waters, wading in or doing a belly-flop into multimedia. (I’m somewhere between wading and belly flop.)
Sigh, as this site’s author says. You too can play Holiday Hack Newsroom Bingo. all too true about news coverage over the holidays.
Thanks to Laura Thomas, who clued me into the snow feature on WordPress. It’s a little silly, but I like it. What you can do online continues to amaze and fascinate me.
The chaotic state of journalism means it will be a tough job market for our grads this spring and for those former students who have been caught up in newsroom layoffs. But there are some silver linings. Creighton students generally aren’t slackers — they work hard, they participate on the student newspaper, they get internship experience. And we’re trying to help them master a wide range of Web and multimedia skills.
Poynter Online – With Few Job Prospects, Journalism Students Should Learn Web Skills
