Online Journalism Review

By Robert Niles: A generation ago, the skills you needed as a journalist were well-defined. If you were going to work in a print newsroom, you needed to know how to report and write. If you wanted to work in photojournalism, you needed to develop still...
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By Robert Niles: CHICAGO - I recently spent an afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago, admiring, among many other works, the museum's famed "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte," the impressionist masterpiece by Georges-Pierre Seurat...
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By Robert Niles: As a former statistics major, I know that no one should read too much into a single example. But watching my 10-year-old son embrace video production is challenging some of my beliefs about the timing and content of journalism educatio...
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By Pamela Moreland: The team behind foodgal.com called my bluff. Well, maybe I wasn’t bluffing. Maybe I am ready to become a digital media entrepreneur. We’ll find out on Thursday (July 22, 2010).Here’s the back story. I took a buyout from the ...
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By Robert Niles: I don't need to explain to journalism educators the importance of recruiting and admitting a diverse student body. Journalism educators realized, more than a generation ago, that graduating few other than white, middle-to-upper-income ...
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By Robert Niles: Two state judges in Pennsylvania recently ordered newspapers to take down online stories about criminal cases after charges against the defendants were expunged. The newspapers refused, citing the First Amendment's prohibition against ...
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By Jason Stverak: When your cell phone breaks or your computer crashes you no longer expect to speak to a call center in the United States. Numerous companies have outsourced parts of their business operations to contractors in other countries in an ef...
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By Benjamin Davis: I am developing the new syllabus for my fall journalism course at Rutgers and I will be re-enforcing the need for telling the truth in journalism. No longer will my students refer to a “black” person or a “white” person. Th...
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By Robert Niles: I wanted to address some questions and reactions to my piece last week about optimizing news websites for maximum AdSense revenue.The questions focused on my final recommendation: "Create sharply focused evergreen topic pages"Since...
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By Sandra Ordonez: For the past two years, the OurBlook team has been busy collecting opinions from diverse industry experts on the future of journalism. We had an unsettling realization – if journalists were having a hard time keeping up with the ch...
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