Back from a long hiatus
February 15th, 2010
So it’s been a while, but I’ve got a full plate of posts that I’m working on for this spring.
Here’s what you can expect in the coming weeks: why we need to start thinking about technology as journalism; the state of magazines in Oregon (a.k.a The Oregon Magazine Deathwatch); what we can learn from stupid Internet users; and a nonfiction piece on the youngest member of the Lincoln assassination plot.
Additionally, this Thursday I’ll speaking at the CASE regional conference in downtown Portland. My session is called “We Are the Media: You and the Emerging New Journalism“.
With the contraction of print and broadcast newsrooms, the media professionals we relied on for higher education coverage have started to disappear and so has their beat. Are there opportunities to become our own media with access and cost efficiency of the blogosphere, Twitter and other social media? As the digital revolution continues to reshape the journalism landscape, how is this changing the way we do our jobs? What trends and emerging journalism efforts can we expect to turn into mainstays of tomorrow’s journalism world?
As part of that I’ll also be posting a new media how-to guide for university administrators and teachers.