I spoke Friday at the Media Matters Writing Conference at UMass Boston, and I came away very encouraged about the future of online media. The conference is for middle schoolers and high schoolers, and the group I spoke with had some sharp, media-savvy kids. I talked about how to blog, as part of a...
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The kids are into “Media Matters”
We shared, you came: the power of social media
BostonMediaNext.com has been online for all of four days. As expected, our traffic started slowly, with 20 – 50 page views per day. But on Sunday, it spiked to 350 views. How is this possible for a nascent site? Social media. On Saturday, I wrote an entry about Prof. Jay Rosen’s NYU course that...
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Taking an innovative approach to teaching journalism
We have some great journalism schools here in Boston, and their mission will be the same as ours: to evolve. NYU is offering what could be a model for next-gen J-school, its Studio 20 concentration. The classes are led by Prof. Jay Rosen whose blog, PressThink, is a provocative must-read. Another splendid J-prof is Mindy McAdams,...
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