Tag Archives: Journalism

University of Colorado may shut down journalism school to create a more tech-oriented degree program

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Stefanie Chernow writing at the Editors Weblog: Digital trends in the media are affecting every aspect of the journalism field, including education. The University of Colorado at Boulder is pondering closing its journalism department in favor of a new degree … Continue reading →

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Science Journalism in a Digital Age – Call for Papers

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNALISM: THEORY, PRACTICE AND CRITICISM Guest Editor: Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University, UK In taking science journalism as its focus, this special issue of Journalism will seek to contribute to current debates about the ways in which this … Continue reading →

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Open door: The Guardian’s football correspondent on … the World Cup and technology

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Kevin McCarra: Access to the internet, I am glad to say, has done away entirely with the silly assumption that journalists have access to a higher knowledge. [...] For good or ill, the internet, provoking disagreement and speculation as well … Continue reading →

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Let’s subsidize open broadband, not journalists (newspaper industry deserves to die)

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Dan Gillmor: I love newspapers. I worked in them for almost 25 years. But I'm not itching to bail out a business that is failing in large part because it was so transcendentally greedy in its monopoly era that it … Continue reading →

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Ad-funded Guardian could switch off presses by 2015

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Alan Rusbridger: We are earning tens of millions of pounds and it’s increasing at about 100 percent a year at the moment [...] Let’s say we’re earning about £40m at the moment in digital revenue. Peter Kirwan: Now these are … Continue reading →

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Design is key to good online journalism, not just coding and data

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

John Hillman: Yet in many ways a digital journalist is more likely to struggle with design than coding. Before you can begin coding you have to have this side of things clear, whether you are working on your own independent … Continue reading →

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Journalism and ‘the words of power’

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Excellent, must-read from Robert Fisk: This isn't just about clichés – this is preposterous journalism. There is no battle between power and the media. Through language, we have become them. [...] this vocabulary is not adopted through political connivance. It … Continue reading →

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Grand Produksjon

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Behind the scenes of NRK's Eurovision Song Contest TV production. Said to be second largest TV production in Norway, following 1994 Winter Olympics. Text in Norwegian, but has great pictures and video clips too. External link

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Environmental news site Grist adds humour to reader donations campaign

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Jennifer MacDonald on Grist's fundraising campaign for environmental journalism: we have noticed how the economic downturn hit environmental reporting particularly hard, with several eco-columns and publications going under in the last year. So we decided, why not mimic campaigns to … Continue reading →

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Twitter relies less on traditional media than blogs

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Einar Thorsen

Great overview of recent analysis of social media by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Among the highlighted findings: "Social media and the mainstream press clearly embrace different agendas. Blogs shared the same lead story with traditional … Continue reading →

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