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Please have a look at the final projects submitted by my students in Reinventing the News at Northeastern University. They consist of extended blog posts about new-media ventures and personalities, complete with videos, slideshows and Google maps.

I just finished watching videos made by my students in Reinventing the News. All of them have good points; some are quite strong from beginning to end.

A few technical notes:

1. The videos were shot with low-end digital cameras, several of which created file compatibility problems. Two students who used Flip cameras had to edit their work on their Windows laptops using Windows Movie Maker, as iMovie '08 for Macinto… Continue

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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