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“The choice for student media is simple: Slide into irrelevancy even faster than professional media that fail to adapt, or race into the digital future and help show them the way.”
The San Francisco Public Press has finally, after 32 months, been granted 501(c)(3) status — a positive sign for its peers still waiting. Jeffrey Hermes
Handed an opportunity by the closure of the Ann Arbor News, two married journalists have built a small business on the kind of civic-minded reporting that isn’t supposed to work online.
After a decade with NPR, Seabrook wants to get beyond process to cover policy and the structures that determine how Congress works.
Doha sunset
A visit to Al Jazeera reveals an oasis of hacker-journalists in the Middle East.
One-size-fits-all classes don’t work in an environment where students’ digital skills are so uneven. And journalism schools should be looking to serve the world beyond those who pay tuition.
Busted computer in the desert
Open-source may be hip, but an awful lot of cultural baggage can get in the way of newsrooms adopting it.
Journalism school students often choose the field because they like writing. So getting them to code requires more than instruction — it takes convincing. Mindy McAdams