Looking into media’s use of Facebook Groups
The Nieman Journalism Lab, funded by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, studies all things journalism. Nieman Lab reporter Christine Schmidt recently took a look at how […]
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‘Morning Brew’ delivers business news to your inbox
If you are interested in business news, consider subscribing to Morning Brew. According to its website, Morning Brew is “[a] quick and quality daily e-mail […]
Looking back at a semester of Participatory Journalism
And so it’s over . . . Well, almost. The Spring 2017 semester is wrapping up, which means it is time for a little introspection. […]
Online video fails to engage users
With services like Snapchat, Facebook Live and Instagram providing platforms for video sharing, not to mention the perennial video king in YouTube, various online players are […]
Engage students with Snapchat
My students are all on Snapchat. I have an account too, and so I often get students asking me for my account name because they want […]
Treat news sites with care of a chef
The traffic numbers for Sterling Student Publications, the site operated by my journalism students, is abysmal. This is especially true for our homepage, so I started […]
Newsletters create engagement
During my 45-minute commute home from my job as a high school journalism teacher, I was thinking about what I could have my magazine students do […]
Thought Paper: Facebook Live in Scholastic Journalism
NOTE: This was a paper I wrote for J7700 Participatory Journalism that was supposed to discuss concepts concerning “the sharing of digital journalism.” In the class, […]
Thought Paper: Social Media in Scholastic Journalism
NOTE: This was a paper I wrote for J7700 Participatory Journalism that was supposed to discuss concepts concerning “the sharing of digital journalism.” In the class, […]
WaPo growing engagement via Facebook
Last summer I decided Facebook was getting in the way of human connections, especially with my wife, because I would spend more time scrolling on the app […]
NY Times plans for digital, reader focus
Journalism That Stands Apart: The Report of the 2020 Group: https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/
Commenters desire deeper engagement
The comment section of a news story generally is viewed as a quagmire of negativity on any news site. Comments may start out on topic […]