Month: December 2010

  • Article comments: The Abilene experiment

    An interesting approach to managing comments by editor Barton Cromeens at the Abilene Reporter-News: Get the commenting community involved and work hard at making comments add value: The First Amendment is under attack. Ironically, the attacker is a free press that is frustrated with a changing media landscape and that is reacting poorly to a…

  • Multimedia bootcamp coming up in February

    From Val Hoeppner: Freedom Forum New Media Training at the Diversity Institute will offer a Multimedia Boot Camp for Journalism Professionals and Educators Feb. 23-27, 2011. Registration is available immediately and on a first-come, first-served basis. Follow this link to register online: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/REGISTER4bootcamp The multimedia training is tailored for journalists but open to anyone with…

  • Fellowship opp

    This may be of interest: Ted Scripps Fellowships inENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISMUniversity of Colorado at Boulder “The program was better than I expected, mainly because of the educational opportunity. Once I realized how much I did not know, it truly became a renaissance experience for me. I feel like a new man, and I have much more…