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Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot.

February 06 Comments Off on Where have all the student journalists gone? To HuffPo and HubSpot. Category: College Media, Feed, HackText

Is this drought a Suffolk-specific problem or a much larger crisis? And if the answer is the latter, what is holding an increasing amount of students back from being passionate about — and getting involved with — established college media?  “Are Fewer Students Passionate About College Media?” Dan Reimold, College Media Matters When I worked […]

But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs

June 24 Comments Off on But our professor is in another castle: Universities don’t get MOOCs Category: Education, Feed, HackText

When will academic institutions learn that outsourcing their online learning services is always a mistake?

PressForward Plugin Beta Now Available!

June 18 Comments Off on PressForward Plugin Beta Now Available! Category: Feed, HackText

PressForward, the Google Reader replacement that runs inside your WordPress install, is now in open beta! This is one of the project’s that I’ve spent the last year working on and I’m very excited to get to this stage. PressForward, which is hitting beta just in time to complete testing when Google Reader hits the […]

The Access Paradox: The conundrum of growing a journalism genre. [Part 1]

October 26 Comments Off on The Access Paradox: The conundrum of growing a journalism genre. [Part 1] Category: Feed, HackText

For the profession of journalism, video games journalism is our canary in the coal mine. How it deals with the challenges and ethical conundrums of the new journalism will teach us all, if we’re smart enough to pay attention.