This may sound dumb, but I think the first place to turn is to newspapers, particularly The New York Times, Daily News, Washington Post and LA Times. If you're going to debate the value of "old media" or "mainstream media," you ought to read them. This isn't directed at Prof. Gorelick, who does, but at the many students who say they're interested in journalism but don't read the papers.
And if you haven't watched "News War," the excellent series Frontline did on the ills and future of news, it's still available on-line at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/
Don't miss it.
I often find myself disagreeing with Jay Rosen--a topic for another time--but his PressThink regularly raises important issues and is on my rss feed. Then there's Assignment Zero, the Rosen-driven experiment in "crowd sourcing," or is it "crowdsourcing"---man, I hate jargon.
Chip Scanlan is a great writing coach, on-line at the Poynter Institute. And Poynter's PointsSouth offers evidence--if anyone needs it--that students can write great stories. So (I will immodestly say) do these: www.huntspointexpress.com and www.nycitynewsservice.com, offering work from the CUNY graduate school of journalism.
Editor & Publisher is worth adding to the magazine list.
And around graduation day, journalismjobs.com might come in handy.
Bernard L. Stein
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:34:37 -0400
>From: "Gorelick, Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Web Sites; Email Bulletins; RSS Feeds
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
> This has really been helpful.
>
> Can I throw in two other questions? And I should
> say in advance that I know partial answers to each,
> but would value additional suggestions.
>
> 1) What organizations -- both local and national --
> should a student journalist explore and consider? I
> am afraid my answer would be partial and I would be
> grateful for suggestions. I know, for example, that
> quite a while back Gregg clued me in to the valuable
> activities of The Deadline Club. And I know about
> SPJ and AEJMC. But others will certainly know this
> terrain much better than I do.
>
> 2) The next question is related: There are an
> incredible number of Internet resources (listservs,
> blogs, RSS feeds, etc) for those who want to follow
> issues related to journalists and journalism. I read
> a number of them. But I am certain that I must be
> missing some good ones. Suggestions?
>
> The sources I use that come to mind are:
>
> Websites: AJR; CJR; Casey Journalism Center on
> Children and Families; The Center for Social Media;
> The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press;
> DART Center on Journalism and Trauma
>
> Daily Email Bulletins/Briefings: Mediabistro.com
> "Daily Media News Feed"; SPJ "Pressnotes"
>
> RSS Feeds: Poynter/Romanesko; NPR's On the Media
> Radio Program; Jack Shafer's Media Column in Slate
> Magazine; "PR Watch" of the Center for Media and
> Democracy.
>
>
>
> Steve
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> From: HCJ on behalf of Bernard L. Stein
> Sent: Mon 4/2/2007 9:51 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: clips from online publications
>
> I put the question to Jeff Jarvis, the Internet
> savant at CUNY's new graduate school of journalism.
> Here's his answer.
> Bernard L. Stein
>
> "I hate to make blogs the cure for the common cold
> but...
>
> "Blog software is the easiest content-mangement and
> publishing system ever made. I would use a blog as a
> means of presenting portfolio work. I don't mean
> that the work needs to be surrounding by blog
> writing.
> One may just use a blog to publish your work.
>
> "At the simplest level, this allows one to link to
> any work you've done anywhere else (including clips
> on mainstream sites, files on CUNY servers, PDFs on
> your own server, etc.).
>
> "WordPress also brings the ability to publish pages,
> not just blog posts. So you may take an article and
> put it on a WordPress page and then link to that
> from the blog.
>
> "Video can be posted to services such as Blip.tv or
> YouTube.com and then embedded in the blog. Or one
> may link to video files on a server to be played.
> (I'd recommend the former; it's so much easier for
> all.)
>
> Sandeep [Junnarkar, who teaches the interactive
> classes] and I are recommending to students that
> they get their own domain for their portfolios and
> that they establish an account to get blog software.
> One may use a free service such as Blogger.com, or
> paid and hosted services such as WordPress.com and
> TypePad.com. Those are all easy (I'd recommend
> WordPress among them). To ratchet this up a bit,
> I've recommended a very cheap hosting service, A
> Small Orange, where one can get one's own account on
> a server for $25 a year; this
> then enables the ability to put files on a server
> once they're taken off a university server."
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