The Nieman Journalism Lab has posted another video segment on NBC News Digital Correspondent (and our alumna) Mara Schiavocampo. This segment details what Mara has in her toolkit to be prepared to air her coverage of events that could end up either online or on the evening news:
NBC’s Mara Schiavocampo: Inside her digital toolkit from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.
See the profile here.
C-SPAN has constructed an interesting online tool this election season that chronicles the debates and breaks them down into easily digestable and interactive pieces. This site is a good example of how news orgs can make complex subjects and topics easier to digest. The site includes:
Check out the site at debatehub.c-span.org. Some screenshots after the jump. Read more…
One of the biggest questions that keeps cropping up at the ONA convention is certainly not new: how do we make journalism sustainable?
Tina Brown, in her keynote Friday, was double sided when evangelizing that our industry needs innovation, and journalists should not be afraid to start new ventures. But when asked specifically about her own project’s business model, her demurred answer seemed predicated on the fact that she’s part of a very large media conglomerate — and that’s how she says her venture is going to survive.
I’m sure Leslie will share her own thoughts on this, as she and I have been kicking this idea around for a bit, but we need to remember who is in the best position to be leading this innovation movement: our current media companies who are so under fire today. Read more…
The Online News Association annual conference is kicking off this weekend in Washington, D.C. and one of the pre-conference workshops was J-Lab’s J-School Entrepreneurship workshop. Listening to the presenters from other journalism schools and organizations started me thinking about our own curricular discussions at Merrill.
We have been working over the last few years to infuse multi-platform and multimedia skills throughout the curriculum and not segregate these skills/mindsets into just the “online” classes. But let’s take a step back: why do we even have “online” classes? Read more…