What’s hot online? Or at the least, what should you be in the know about, especially if you’re in the media? Here to help with its annual checklist of online must-knows is The Guardian’s “100 Essential Websites.” The creators note plenty of familiar players here — Facebook, Twitter, Flickr — as well as some...
One of my students posed these questions on the “state of journalism” for another one of his classes at LBCC: 1. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing journalism today? The biggest challenge facing today’s journalists remains the same as ever: Gathering, analyzing, organizing and disseminating information for the benefit of readers...
Newspapers, it would seem, are rapidly coming to the end of their press run. It’s shocking to many just how fast the bottom has fallen out of the industry. (Penny stocks, anyone?) As they struggle to continue their print editions, newspapers are joining in the scramble for the elusive online business model that will...
Now that Election Day has finally arrived, where can you go for the latest results online? Reportr.net has compiled a list of sites and links to find out the latest in the race to the White House. And if you haven’t seen it yet, a must-see site is YouTube’s “Video Your Vote” Channel, which...
