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A Reporter’s Toolbag: Reduced to Two—Flip Camera and iPhone

In demonstrating how he uses these digital devices to report, a journalist argues that it's time to replace pen and paper with voice, video and photos.

Blogging Communities Spurred to Action

‘Coverage of civil rights and social justice issues could be made the core of a digital news organization, national or global in scope.’

Fall 2009: Introduction to “Journalism and Social Media”

From blogs to vlogs, Facebook to MySpace, Twitter to Flickr, Delicious to reddit, words and images bounce around the globe, spreading wide and fast. Journalists are adapting to the ever-shifting…

On Home

ObjectivesJoan Didion is a blogger before her time who weaves the power of narrative details into her poignant narratives. Her style of writing marries well with the topic of military…

Inauguration Weekend

He had always acted as if men were masters of forces, as if all things were possible for men determined in purpose and clear in thought—even the Presidency. This perhaps…

On Leaving College

“Many men did not accept the new freedom that women had come to enjoy. Because men in the military were used to taking orders, they expected to be masters of…

Educating Ourselves, So We Can Teach Our Students

In mid-August, after returning from the AEJMC annual conference in Boston, Cindy Royal, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University shared her…

A Coach’s Demise

If you want, call Dennis Wolff a prophet.On Nov. 11, 2008 three days prior to the start of his 15th season as head coach of Boston University’s men’s basketball team,…

Communicating on Climate Change

A 74-page book, “Communicating on Climate Change,” based on an unprecedented series of dialogues involving top climate scientists and journalists, can be downloaded as a PDF file from The Metcalf…

Journalists and Environmental Reporting

Investigative reporters have long followed the money trail as a reliable way of getting at the core of a story. These days, Fred Pearce, former news editor at New Scientist,…