Hi: I'm Doreen Marchionni (Ph.D. '09, Missouri School of Journalism). I'll be your intergalactic pilot on this journey through my dissertation. Send whiskey, please.
Someone was just asking me about this, so I’m publishing this amusing exchange I had on the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Newspaper Division list serv about one year ago, when the division was debating changing its name to something a bit more digital friendly,…
This kind of thing, more than anything, gives me pause about staying in academia. Props to my buddy @brizzyc, who mentored me through Ph.D. school.
Given many of you are students, perhaps soon to be graduates, you might be interested in this Tumblr blog student Chelsea Paulsen developed for her final project in my social media class.
Good stuff on a wide range of topics related to study abroad, from what programs are best to how to acclimate to your home culture once you return.
Love this merger. Combines crowdsourcing (the PIN part) with crowdfunding (the Spot.Us part) of stories. Public broadcasting has long shown citizens are willing to fund great journalism via pledge drives and other means. Why not this?
This ad made the rounds the week Steve Jobs died. He apparently did the original voiceover for the “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” commercial in 1997, which never aired. (The version featuring Richard Dreyfus’ narration aired instead.)
Missing Steve’s faint lisp already. Sigh.
Rummaging through the kitchen drawers and found this old “divorce notice” from Albert.
“Going to the projet” is our riff on a note I wrote to my parents when I was 5, asking if I was adopted from the housing projects near our home (misspelled “dopted from projets”) because my lying brothers kept telling me so.
I’ve been teaching my social media students about professional uses of Facebook in recent weeks, including Rockville Central, the Maryland news site that made news this spring when it moved all publishing to Facebook.
Imagine my surprise last Friday when I read its farewell note to readers, just as I was heading in to class to discuss Rockville’s success. As full-time, unpaid volunteers, Rockville site operators Brad Rourke and Cindy Cotte Griffiths explained they could no longer devote the time to do it right. But they made this clear: They counted the move to FB as a success. Yes, the Notes function was lousy for posting news and story archiving a nightmare.
But their audience numbers on FB jumped, they say, suggesting the act of creating a community of news followers within a social network made a difference. I think community makes a huge difference, especially online. I also think that’s the future of news, despite protestations from some in the industry.
It’s a delicate endeavor, though, especially on FB. The social network instituted some changes in recent weeks designed to attract more professional media workers by omitting the friending/fanning nomenclature that makes a lot of people queasy.
Have I told you all about my exciting new job? It’s at a newspaper, and I report up through the IT department.
I know what you’re thinking: IT is dead! … [But] I want executive editors to go back to doing journalism full time rather than studying analytics and SEO-backed business models. I want advertising execs to stop junking up their websites and develop products that respect the audience. I want developers to give us a second look because we’re a Rails/Python/PHP/Whatever shop. I want readers to feel like our websites respect them and their time. Most of all, I want IT to be the thing that gets us there, not the excuse for why we can’t.
Hero hubby, keeping it real in journalism (total turn-on, folks).
I saw Steve in person several times when I worked at Apple. There were the events, both public and private, the “fireside chats” broadcast to other auditoriums scattered around the company and the last time, I scored a 5th row, aisle in Town Hall. It was late 2008.
You could say Apple brought Albert and I together. He worked in IT at The (Tacoma) News Tribune while I was an assistant metro editor. The newsroom was switching out PCs for Macs, and my reporting team wasn’t scheduled for the swap for weeks. I asked Albert to bounce my PC for the Mac anyway. Talk about music to this guy’s ears …
