Journalists should explore open social media approaches, where they enable firsthand sources to tell their story to a wide audience using common tools of the trade.
How journalists could use social media to enable storytellers
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Three tools Journalism 101 should introduce to students
Journalism professors should introduce students to these three tools early in their programs so students have the opportunity to independently learn more about their trade.
Netflix and Reed Hastings’ lessons for journalism
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings’ success holds lessons for newspapers and media companies. Ken Doctor boils those lessons down to six, but these two matter most.
Why it’s important to dominate search results for your name
If you’re a journalist, independent publisher, blogger or journalism student, it’s important to try to dominate the search results for your name, and if not possible, at least get a very high ranking for a page that reflects positively on you.
Don’t forget the basics amid talk of the ‘future of news’
Do we talk too much about the ‘future of news’ and fail to focus on practicing the basics of now? Here are three basic best practices of web publishing that too many news outlets continue to ignore.
Using Google Voice for newsrooms, reporters
With Google taking on how we make phone calls, is your news organization using Google Voice to cut costs and make making and receiving calls easier?
For college newspapers, the importance of platform is often overrated
College newspapers are often limited by their own staff’s knowledge on web publishing, though the platform (usually College Publisher) is often blamed while very rarely used to its full extent.
