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Jul 12, 2021

For Journalists Considering a Move to Teaching

What you need to know before you start — A time comes for many journalists when they think, “I’ve had a good run in this career, and now maybe I should transition to full-time teaching at a university.” …

Teaching

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For Journalists Considering a Move to Teaching
For Journalists Considering a Move to Teaching
Teaching

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Nov 12, 2017

Choosing a major in college

What’s really the best career for you, and how do you get there? — As an educator, I hear a lot of surprising stories about why students chose a major. The reasons often have little to do with the student’s real interests. (This essay, inspired by a New York Times article, Six Myths About Choosing a College Major, began as a Twitter thread.) Focusing…

Education

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Choosing a major in college
Choosing a major in college
Education

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Code Like A Girl

·Jul 5, 2017

Code and Journalism Today

What journalists and journalism educators should understand — When The Washington Post’s Ray Daly gave a talk about “JavaScript journalism” at JSConf back in May 2013, Snow Fall had appeared less than six months earlier. Daly showed dozens of examples in which JavaScript code had enhanced the storytelling in reports published online by news organizations ranging from the…

Journalism

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Code and Journalism Today
Code and Journalism Today
Journalism

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Jun 29, 2017

Two 50+ women, one hot car, six national parks

How we traveled through Utah and Wyoming in June 2017 — Jodi says we’ve been trying to make this trip for 17 years. I say we started planning it three years ago, but whatever. We finally sat down in October 2016 and booked flights, a rental car, and five nights in Yellowstone. I was set on visiting Yellowstone, at last, for…

Travel

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Two 50+ women, one hot car, six national parks
Two 50+ women, one hot car, six national parks
Travel

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Apr 25, 2017

How to professionalize your GitHub repo

You probably know that most code professionals use GitHub, and you probably realize that people are going to look at your GitHub repos when they are thinking about whether to hire you or offer you an internship. (If you’re not using GitHub yet, it’s easy to get started with the…

Github

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How to professionalize your GitHub repo
How to professionalize your GitHub repo
Github

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Mar 1, 2016

How to be a digital collaborator

A small business owner needs a website. She hires one of my students to build it. They have a conversation or two about what should be included. It’s not a large website — just five or six pages, with no e-commerce. It breaks down here: The Web designer asks the…

Journalism

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How to be a digital collaborator
How to be a digital collaborator
Journalism

5 min read


Mar 5, 2015

The Future of Journalism Education (the Remix)

A curated collection (with a few added remarks) from the 2015 Knight Foundation report “Above & Beyond.” Innovation News Center, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida Aggregator’s note: Text that is not in quotation marks is my own opinion unless clearly noted as coming from the report. …

Journalism

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The Future of Journalism Education (the Remix)
The Future of Journalism Education (the Remix)
Journalism

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Feb 25, 2015

Storytelling Now

A personal selection of outstanding stories from the 2015 Society of News Design competition. Journalism awards come out of long hours invested by judges, in rooms where too much junk food is consumed, as lists of links or stacks of entries are eyed, pondered, discussed. I did that last weekend…

Journalism

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Storytelling Now
Storytelling Now
Journalism

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Feb 15, 2015

Sheep Fighting in Subang

Those are the biggest testicles I have ever seen, I thought as the rams came off the small trucks, wrangled by men holding the animals’ giant crescent horns. Each ram’s scrotum looked like a jackfruit, huge and pendulous. The rams are bred for aggression so that they will fight. The…

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Sheep Fighting in Subang
Sheep Fighting in Subang

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Thoughts On Journalism

·Apr 9, 2014

(Re)defining multimedia journalism

New storytelling forms inspire us — Summary: “Snow Fall” was a watershed project, but we’ve already gone beyond that. Let’s focus on innovations in multimedia storytelling techniques. There’s no consensus among journalists about what the term multimedia means, or even whether to use it anymore. The multimedia skills listed in a job advertisement might span a…

Journalism

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(Re)defining multimedia journalism
(Re)defining multimedia journalism
Journalism

6 min read

Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams

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Digital journalism professor, University of Florida. I love code, Vespa, cats, world travel. https://mindymcadams.com/

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