Category: Journalism
The most overlooked prep time for speakers
| 25 February 2013 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism, Speaking, Writing |
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Austrian journalist Karl Kraus once famously defined a journalist as someone who has nothing to say but knows how to say it. Journalism students have a tendency to fill a college career with nothing but journalism courses, which can lead to exactly the situation Kraus described. That’s why schools accredited by the Association for Education…
You can lessen the grip of media-induced fear
| 19 December 2012 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism |
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I have heard many cry out in the last few days, “Media! Leave Newtown alone! You’re despicable!” The humane part of me agrees with this cry. But you have to understand something. That media frenzy that everyone decries? It’s all our fault.
Infographic: The Pitfalls of Freelancing
| 24 February 2012 | Posted by Donn King under Employment, Journalism, Speaking, Writing |
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Infographics have become a trend–at least partly, I think, because they’re information-dense means of quickly making sense of a topic, and effectively combine visual and verbal information. This one applies to both writing and speaking, I think, as well as the obvious connections to IT. Created by: Masters Degree
Publishing student work via Flipboard
| 8 November 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Education, Journalism, Technology and learning |
As I write this, I’m at the Innovative Professor Conference at Austin Peay State University, getting ready to do a presentation about a method of publishing student work for Flipboard, one of the most popular apps available on the iPad. I have this theory that “out loud” is best for big picture information–establishing context, talking about…
Open government leads to greater happiness
| 5 March 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism, Thoughts |
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This report by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press might lead to a “well, duh!” response. Nevertheless, it is good to see solid evidence bearing this out. “Citizens who believe their community’s information systems, government, media and such are performing well are more likely to be engaged in their community and are more…
You must be willing to create crap…
| 19 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Communication, Education, Journalism |
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…in order to find the good stuff. That’s sort of what Anne Lamott advised in her book Bird by Bird. One of her chapters was titled pretty much that (using a stronger term than crap). Daniel Pink posits a similar idea in his piece entitled Why you should come up with at least 1 bad…
Thoughts on Web 2.0 and Human 1.5
| 30 January 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism, Miscellany |
This is for an assignment in the Digital Storytelling course, but I’m happy to share it here, for whatever it’s worth. I was thinking about how differently writers approached things “in my day” with copyright, etc., and today with things like Creative Commons licenses. I don’t know how informative it is, but it reflects my…
Syllabus for parody course too true
| 23 April 2009 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Education, Humor, Journalism |
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One of the great things about parody, of course, is that it is all at once funny and not-funny-because-it’s-too-true. Robert Lanham has produced a syllabus for a course called Internet-Age Writing, and it makes me laugh and cry, just like those people I heard about in a student’s speech who named their dog “Fungus.” What…
Look behind the curtain
| 19 April 2009 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism |
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As someone who tries to teach students about evidence, support, reasoning, etc., stuff like this just makes me mad, and I”m not sure if it’s because the cartoonist is ignorant of basic background information and economics, or because he thinks his readers are that ignorant, or because he’s right. (I’m sure he’s right a lot,…
Intellectual property in the age of blogs
| 12 April 2009 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Journalism |
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Merlin Mann keeps the 43 Folders site. In “Free as in ‘Me’” he does an elaborate but interesting examination into issues of intellectual property and ownership that go beyond the merely commercial. My opinion: the assumption that intellectual property is mainly about commercial interests taints the discussion on the part of both proponents of protecting…
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