June 2011
8 posts
Rosen's C- Grade for “Pro-Am” Journalism →
This report card is making the rounds among bloggers, and I have to say, it’s a fairly bruising grade for what I see as the definitive model of journalism as a conversation: deeply collaborative work between professional journalists (PRO) and everyday citizens (AM) in the production of news.
Until I started running controlled experiments on this stuff, I’m not sure you could have convinced me...
When Profs Start to Tweet →
A smart, non-hysterical look at professor uses of social media. Seems like it’s taken forever for academics to write about social-media practices without sounding defensive, even protective, of traditional means of communication. I understand some amount of nervousness. We’re not rewarded for talking simply and conversationally about what we do. We’re warned to keep our private...
“It’s almost certainly the case that lectures have been ineffective for...”
– A Better Way to Teach? - ScienceNOW (via infoneer-pulse)
Amen.
Engaging Communities: Content and Conversation →
Smart, poetic take on the role of journalists in society from my friend at Missouri School of Journalism, Joy Mayer (@mayerjoy). She spent the past year as a fellow at the university’s Reynolds Journalism Institute looking at how journalists engage and build community all around them. Not surprisingly, some of the best stuff is coming from small, “scrappy” news outlets that...
American Drink: Taste with your brain, not with... →
americandrink:
Overpriced barware and flavored vodkas aside, there aren’t many drinking topics I find more off-putting than the far-flung and flowery language of tasting.
Whether it’s Bourbon or Bordeaux, nothing turns my curiosity into contempt like having to trudge through some gasbag’s highbrow…
This, THIS is destined for AD’s whiskey canon. Happy one-year birthday, American...
Knight Fellows' Progress Report: Re-Engineering... →
Smart look at what the 2011 Stanford Knight Fellows are working on to make journalism better. I’m especially enamored with Jenka Soderberg’s citizen news tip phone app for breaking news. Small nit: I wouldn’t limit this application to just breaking news.
The app also has a built-in verification system to address a gnawing problem for a lot of professional journalists: ensuring...
