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For the past week students in my Web journalism class have been immersing themselves in NewsTrust, a social- networking site that bills itself as "Your guide to good journalism." Last Wednesday Rory O'Connor, NewsTrust's editorial director, led us in a presentation and workshop, highlights of which you can see in the embedded video below. Since then, we've been posti… Continue

Lauren Dillard, a student at Oregon State University, has written a thought-provoking response to my post on the multimedia journalist. She writes: "When I worked at The McMinnville News-Register over the summer, I was frowned at when I mentioned that I could also shoot photos. I took some fabulous photos that ran… Continue

Cross-posted from Media Nation.

Toward the end of a gloomy assessment of the newspaper business in today's New York Times comes this:

The paradox is that more people than ever read newspapers, now that some major pa…

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I just posted an item on Wired Journalists at my main blog, Media Nation. I've also created a Northeastern University group on Wired Journalists that my students in Reinventing the News will be joining this afternoon. Good stuff -- this is all very exciting.