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Dale Willman on radio in Indonesia

May 10, 2008 – 10:23 am

Dale Willman

Borobudur, a Buddhist temple on the island of Java.

For a change of pace, here’s an audio podcast. My good friend and environmental journalism colleague Dale Willman just got back from a three-week trip to Indonesia where he was training radio journalists there how to do an environmental radio show — and just how to [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Audio Show, culture, education, environment, experience, interviews, mobile, podcasts, world | Comments (0)

David Cohn: Pushing journalism frontiers

May 7, 2008 – 7:49 pm

At the NewsTools 2008 conference last week, I had a chance to sit down with one of the emerging luminaries of entrepreneurial, experimental journalism. David Cohn runs the BeatBlogging project for NewAssignment.net, and he also works with NewsTrust . Plus, he runs a great blog of his own and is a constant presence on [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, conversational media, innovation, interviews, journalism, processes, skills, social media, social networks, video | Comments (4)

Toxic Journo Culture Oozes Across Blogosphere

April 29, 2008 – 7:41 am

E-Media Tidbits on Poynter.org

My Tidbits post yesterday seemed to resonate with a lot of journalists. Check out the comments .

My E-Media Tidbits post yesterday, Journalism: A Toxic Culture? (Or: Why Aren’t We Having More Fun?) (cross-posted to Contentious.com) has gotten many comments and also picked up wider traction. Here are the various people [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Conversations, blogs, community, conversational media, culture, journalism | Comments (1)

Journalism: A Toxic Culture? (Or: Why Aren’t We Having More Fun?)

April 28, 2008 – 11:58 am

Despair, Inc.

Remind you of any journalists you know?…

(NOTE: I originally posted this article on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. But I thought Contentious readers might be interested in it, too.)
Most of what I do is help journalists and news orgs wrap their brains around the Internet. Generally I enjoy that work. Lately, though, I’ve been getting quite [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Media Musings, careers, collaboration, community, credibility, culture, emotions, events, fun stuff, journalism, mindset, problems, skills, solutions | Comments (1)

Overhauling J-School Completely

April 16, 2008 – 3:04 pm

Sscornelius, via Flickr (CC license)

Maybe what journalism education really needs is to start over from a new foundation.

Well, there’s been a ton of great discussion lately on the theme of what kind of education and preparation today’s journalists really need, given the changing landscape of opportunities they’re facing. (Thanks to Mindy McAdams, James Ball, Paul [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Arranging Ideas, business, careers, collaboration, education, journalism | Comments (9)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

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Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

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Twitter Up, Blogging Down

March 19, 2008 – 7:14 am

Yes, I’m Twittering more than I’m blogging here lately. I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

Just a few minutes ago, Jeremiah Owyang posted to Twitter:
“Is your blogging reducing due to Twitter usage? It has for Adam Stewart.”
…So I hopped over to see what Adam Stewart had to say. This part of his post rang true [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Media Musings, Microblogging, blogs, conversational media, processes, psychology | Comments (3)

Conversational Media Mindset 101

March 2, 2008 – 8:39 am

Gaetan Lee, via Flickr (CC license)

Is your wetware due for an upgrade?

On Monday I’ll be co-presenting a session on “Future Tools” at the Knight Digital Media Center seminar: Best Practices: Editorial/Commentary in Cyberspace. My fellow presenter Leslie Rule (who runs KQED’s Digital Storytelling Initiative) and I will be explaining to a room full of [...]

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Newspaper Biz: Evolution Isn’t the End of the World

February 7, 2008 – 10:36 am

Rob Lee, via Flickr (CC license)

Some ways of approaching what looks like the end of the world are more constructive than others.

(NOTE: I originally wrote this for Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits. I’m cross-posting it here because I think it might also interest Contentious readers.)
This morning I read in the New York Times a cold litany of [...]

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CA Wildfires: Watershed Moment for Collaborative Online News?

October 25, 2007 – 11:00 am

Alex Miroshnichenko

Freelance photojournalist Alex Miroshnichenko is offering great fire coverage (and smart marketing of his skills) with Creative Commons-licensed photos on Flickr.

For the last few days at Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, I’ve been blogging examples of innovative ways that online media is being used to cover the Southern CA wildfires. It’s been astonishing. There have been [...]

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