Studying the intersection of journalism, interactive communications and public discourse
Share Not in Tangipahoa Parish! Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com Thu, Oct 15 2009 20:00:00 Interracial couples now make up 8.4 percent of all marriages in in America, double the number in 1980, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. In 2010, 15 percent of all new marriages in America were between spouses of …
I often worry that my 10-year-old daughter spends too much time looking at screens. Her attention magnets: her laptop, iPhone, cable TV, Wii, Nintendo DS and a recently gifted Kindle Fire. If it’s not one, it’s the other. But getting on her case about too much screen time basically makes me a hypocrite. I spend …
The University of Connecticut recalls the untimely death of one of its athletes two years ago, when 20-year-old UConn football player Jasper Howard was fatally stabbed after a campus party. Hartford Courant sports writer Desmond Conner noted the Jasper anniversary in a blog post. Conner’s report includes a picture of the Howard tribute in the …
‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests grabbing more attention from the media, and show up on the campus of the University of Connecticut in Storrs. As the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement spreads around the country, New York Times reporter Brian Stetler took note of the news media’s burgeoning attraction to the ‘Occupy’ protesters: “… the movement, which …
Saw this blog post make the rounds on Twitter. Although the post is 7 years old, I felt it’s worthy of archiving here, for my own personal reference. “Practical Theory: What Makes A Great Teacher?” http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/8-What-makes-a-great-teacher.html (Photo by photoxpress.com)
Writing for the web demands writing short. You are crafting content for an audience with a very limited attention span. And most people don’t read online. They scan. So here are 25 tips for writing short by Roy Peter Clarke, the writing coach at Poynter Institute. My short list of Clarke’s best tips: #6. Beware: …
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” — Gen. Eric Shinseki “The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious.” — Ted Levitt
“Everyone’s composing their own flow. And once you start becoming the composer of your own flow, you can’t go back.” – Lars Bastholm, Executive Creative Director at AKQA New York.
Advances in mobile technology and the continued proliferation of mobile devices will mean a greater boon for citizen journalism. The idea behind citizen journalism, also known participatory journalism, is that individuals with no professional journalism training play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information. Mobile technology is …