In my last ever college semester, I took a class every aspiring journalist should sign up for in this day and age: Online Journalism (also called Virtual300). Reporter-turned-educator Jill Falk,...
Creatavist Website In this day and age, there seems to be an online program for virtually everything. Do you want to create an infographic but don't have any experience...
On April 15th, I talked about "News As a Conversation" in my Online Journalism class at Lindenwood University. The presentation was based on the chapter "Managing News as a Conversation"...
Journalist & Middle East expert Deborah Horan. There is a lot of talk about "following your passion" out there. It sounds like simple and obvious advice, mostly uttered by people...
In 2000, the United Nations established the Millenium Development Goals to address some of the most pressing challenges the world was facing at the beginning of the 21st century. The...
YouTube is currently trying to add a new dimension to its already impressive portfolio as the world's biggest video-sharing website. The company, which was purchased by Google in late 2006,...
With only three weeks left and twelve news packages and VO-SOTs under my belt, I feel like I accomplished a lot already this semester. At the same time, however, I...
As the semester is entering its final third, I feel as though I developed something that comes close to a routine. Equipped with basic knowledge and skills but also the...
As more and more details about the mass surveillance activities surface, various news organizations and journalists express concern about the effect ubiquitous eavesdropping has on journalism. Although research and articles...
The past two weeks, especially the second week, were a great learning experience, for I did two packages, one VO-SOT and anchored in only five days. It was all about...
