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• Opinion in Cyberspace: See Best Practices series, seminar archive, and blog.
• Total Community Coverage in Cyberspace: See Best Practices series, seminar archive, and blog

 

RECENT SEMINAR

Election ’08: Unleashing the Cyber-watchdogs
April 23-26, 2008

Participating journalists are developed coverage plans beyond the presidential election campaigns that exploit the potential of digital media.

Visit the seminar blog, agenda, and resources.

 

Timely Topics From the Archives

 

Journalism in a 24/7 World: Decision-making for the Online Editor

Together, online editors and subject experts focused on best practices for telling the major news stories of the coming year. Check out the results, presentations, webcasts, and white papers prepared by the experts.

Visit the 2007 seminar. | Visit the 2006 seminar.

 

Best Practices: Covering Science in Cyberspace Blog

Read blog contributions from prominent science journalists and science communicators participating in this special conference as they identify the critical issues facing science journalists, explore innovative forms of multimedia story-telling, and identify "best practices" for coverage of science issues. Visit the blog created during the March 2007 seminar.

 

Election '08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace

This seminar was designed to help news organizations develop coverage plans that exploit the potential of digital media. Fellows received instruction in investigative "money and politics" tools, including hands-on computer-assisted reporting lab. As well, a group of University of Southern California graduate students blogged the 4-day seminar, sharing what they heard and saw from a perspective that includes their own insights as consumers of New Media and future journalists.

 

Immigration: A Gathering of Resources

Immigration is in the news and on our minds. Here's a collection of the seminars and briefings, including presentations, video and resources lists:
» Showdown at the Border: Critical Issues in Covering U.S. Immigration and Border
   Policy (2005)
» Covering the Border (2003)
» Covering Immigration: The Changing Faces of Our Communities (2001)

 

Covering Islam and Muslims
in America

Muslims in America are locked into a hidden battle over who will get to decide what Islam means in the modern world. Keynote speaker Sherman Jacksdon, discussed the history behind this preicament, and what it means for media coverage of Islam in the United States. » Get more

 

The Latinization of Art and Culture

Want to learn how the art and entertainment of U.S. Latinas and Latinos have affected popular culture and shaped the kinds of stories arts journalists tell – or don’t? Explore America’s thorniest debate about race, looking at the past, present and future of -- particularly Mexican -- contributions to the arts and culture of the U.S. » Get more

 

 

Covering Entertainment in the Digital Age

This seminar focused on the changing nature of entertainment – from its content to its delivery to its consumption – and its social, psychological and economic impacts. Fellows explored the impact of globalization on content and technology, changes in distribution platforms and consumer habits, and the influence of ownership models. » Get more

 

Recommended Resources

 

Read the archives of focused news and editorial writing about online journalism and new media from the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review.

 

Celebrate NewsU’s Birthday!

 

Check it out! International Symposium on Online Journalism March 30-31 University of Texas at Austin Live Webcast and videostreaming link at: http://journalism.utexas.edu/onlinejournalism

Journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world will be focused on the transformation of journalism to adapt to the digital era.