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update on nyu journalism mediashift

Posted on September 19, 2008 by Chris Houchens

I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago about an NYU student who wrote a post about the online knoweldge of GenY in her journalism class. From communicating with Alana, I knew there would be a follow-up from the … Continue reading →

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zero tolerance social media

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Chris Houchens

For the last couple of months, I’ve been on the receiving end of Peter Shankman’s thrice daily HARO email blast. I think it’s great — on many levels. I have functioned as a source for a few reporters doing marketing … Continue reading →

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embedded and right

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Chris Houchens

A NYU journalism student has written an “embedded report” about Quarter lifers / GenY’s outlook on journalism and online media for the PBS Mediashift blog. In the online journalism class that I teach, I find the exact same results as … Continue reading →

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print publishing and online

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Chris Houchens

Mitch Joel has some insight from this NAA report about the print publishing business. The report focuses on the positive numbers that newspaper websites are racking up. While at the same time, newspapers are covered in sackcloth and ashes about … Continue reading →

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Reality Check

Posted on July 24, 2007 by Chris Houchens

Recently, I spoke to a group of late teens/early 20-somethings about online media. These students were in an honors class in one of the top journalism schools in the country. They were all on Facebook heavily About half were on … Continue reading →

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