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May 2008 - Posts

Friday, May 23, 2008 11:46 AM

Making responsible journalists out of citizens

SPJ often gets mistakenly tagged as old school, a bunch of old print guys reminiscing over the days of manual typewriters.  The reality is, SPJ is embracing the future.  The newest example is our Citizen Journalism Academy. 
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:47 AM

Tweeting in courtroom provides a new way to cover a murder trial

The Twitter trial seems to be working.  So far. It's a modification of what we began last fall: live updates of a capital murder trial in the killing of a small-town Kansas sheriff. It was a way of live blogging from the courtroom. 
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Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:11 AM

What, you want me to teach reporters multimedia?

Culture can change as quickly in the newsroom as an editor can slap a new lead on a story. Just a few weeks ago, I wondered if anyone outside our online team – which I had been banished from sometime last summer – got or cared about Web-first
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