Great to see what young journalists-to-be are thinking about the future of journalism. From reading a few, what seems striking is the general optimism that there will be one! Thanks for sharing these, Adam Glenn for RJI Collaboratory
I thought that collaboratory members might be interested in reading the essays written by students in my undergraduate Perspectives on the News course. After reading the Nov/Dec issue of CJR, students expressed their own views:
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Curricular Innovation, Journalism Education, Freelance Coverage of Arts and Culture and Urban Reporting
What kind of help/insight do you hope to get from this community?
Insight into new thinking and new ideas in journalism
I think we should use the RJI Collaboratory incubator to develop:
Building blocks for geographic- or topic-based local Web news sites, News apps and widgets, Twitter as tool for news sites to channel local business, Clearinghouse of experts to help launch new services
I thought that collaboratory members might be interested in reading the essays written by students in my undergraduate Perspectives on the News course. After reading the Nov/Dec issue of CJR, students expressed their own views:
Welcome to the Collaboratory! Poke around a bit and if you don't see the conversation *you* want to have, feel free to start it!
We've got a "How We're Using This Site" page that provides more detail on the different areas of the site and the ways to make best use of them to not only share ideas, but to get projects up and running: http://rjicollab.ning.com/page/how-were-using-this-site.
And you can keep track of latest activities on the network by visiting the What's New page: http://rjicollab.ning.com/page/whats-new.
Thanks for joining us! Adam Glenn on behalf of the RJI Collaboratory