How can high school journalists and publishers of high school newspapers and websites best leverage social media? Test Kitchen program director Steve Outing recently answered questions in a CoverItLive chat produced by the National Scholastic Press Association. You can view the archive of the conversation. >>>
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We think that we have some pretty great ideas coming out of the Digital News Test Kitchen, so you’ll find two proposals among the throng of entries to the latest Knight News Challenge. It you think we’re on to something important, please consider “favoriting” either or both proposals, and/or leave a comment. It will help the judges better assess our entries. >>>
Test Kitchen program director Steve Outing is on summer break (June, July), but that hasn’t stopped him from thinking and writing about hot-button digital-media issues such as newspapers dropping print editions, the flaws in the 10-free-articles-a-month news-website model, and the definition of news paywalls. >>>
CU-Boulder journalism students are taking a “digital curation” role in American Homecomings, an ambitious, year-long, web-based news project covering the wave of military veterans returning home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is being published nationwide on news websites of Digital First Media. >>>
Our intrepid news-source credibility lead researcher on the TrustIt Labs project offers an update of the team’s daunting but vital challenge. She writes: “It’s due time that we invent some tools to make sure we can manage all of these trust issues” that people have with the news and information sources that they find online. >>>
As part of a team experiment of two CU-Boulder journalism classes using various digital techniques and equipment to cover the annual “4/20″ marijuana-law protest and cannabis celebration, reporting-class student Thomas Cuffe set out during the height of the protest with a tiny Looxcie video camera perched on his right ear. >>>
The University of Colorado Boulder had a big news week with a visit and speech by President Barack Obama on April 24. Student media were all over the event, including broadcast journalism student Lauren Conley of NewsTeam Boulder, who used new mobile reporting tools including an iPod Touch to live-stream her report to the web. >>>
For the 4/20 marijuana-law protest and campus closure at CU-Boulder, students in two reporting classes covered the event using a variety of digital tools and techniques. Most of them used Twitter to post brief reports and photos while reporting from the scene. See our slide deck of students’ 4/20 tweets. >>>
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