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Essay: Some Patterns In The Chaos

By Kate Vilches • Jul 25th, 2009 • Category: News About News

Chaos is indeed journalism’s lot, as Professor Shirky observes. However, some salient trends are visible, and there is no harm in extrapolating from them — not to predict the future, but to help us prepare for what Herman Kahn called “surprise-free scenarios.” Phillip Meyer’s essay



Public Radio Boot Camp

By Kate Vilches • Jun 22nd, 2009 • Category: Upcoming Events

Public Radio Boot Camp
One day, one session, everything you need to know to make
NPR quality audio.
July 11, 8:30-5:30
FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus
Registration: $100
Contact Kenny@wlrnunderthesun.org



Blog: Newspapers’ salvation: Google, gadgets and gumption

By Kate Vilches • May 12th, 2009 • Category: News About News

Newspapers’ salvation: Google, gadgets and gumption?



Life After Journalism Panel Discussion

By Kate Vilches • May 5th, 2009 • Category: Upcoming Events

Life After Journalism, a panel discussion on moving on from the journalism business, will be held on May 16, 3-5 p.m.
The event is sponsored by Florida Journalists Network
Speakers include Tom DuBocq, who took a buyout from the Palm Beach Post and is now doing private investigations; Alex Clifton, who quit newspapers to become a teacher; [...]



Reminder: South Florida Media Coalition

By Kate Vilches • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Upcoming Events

Meeting THIS THURSDAY, April 23 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Clear Channel Radio Studios, 7601 Riviera Blvd., Miramar
Guest speaker: Mark Economou, Public Information Manager, Boca Raton Police Services, with a very informative and relevant look at social networking – Twitter, MySpace and Facebook for Law Enforcement, Fire and government agencies – how to make it work to inform the public, media and promote your agency.



Forbes: Journalism bust, J-School boom

By Kate Vilches • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: News About News

Forbes: Journalism bust, J-School boom
When the current class of optimists from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism prepared for their March job fair, some were stunned to learn that, along with The New York Times, Forbes, DowJones and other national publications, they’d also been signed up for interviews with Cat Fancy, a lively consumer [...]



Current.org: Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees

By Kate Vilches • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: News About News

Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting.
Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees



Nieman Watchdog: The State of the News Media: Bleak

By Kate Vilches • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: News About News

The sixth annual report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism sees 2008 as the bleakest year yet. “It’s not an audience problem or a credibility problem…it’s a revenue problem,” the report says.
The State of the News Media: Bleak



Multimedia Journalism Master’s Announced by University of Miami School of Communication

By Kate Vilches • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: News About News

Multimedia Journalism Master’s Announced by University of Miami School of Communication

Coral Gables, FL.- (March 16, 2009) – As print newspapers and traditional journalism jobs are growing increasingly scarce, the University of Miami School of Communication has taken action to adjust to the shifting journalism environment with the announcement of a new graduate program track, the [...]



ABJ Conference on Health Disparities

By Kate Vilches • Jan 5th, 2009 • Category: Upcoming Events

ABJ Conference on Health Disparities
January 30-31, 2009
Morehouse School of Medicine
Shuttle will pickup attendants at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta
REGISTER TODAY
www.MyNABJ.org
NABJ will give journalists insight into health disparities affecting the African American community, resulting in significantly higher mortality rates. Learn how to cover major health and medical stories that make an impact. Topics include obesity, heart disease, [...]