Cyber-Journalism is following a promising path from the bottom up and is now percolating into many major Univrsities. Check out this course at New York University. Titled “Digital Journalism” and taught by Christopher Allbritton at NYU’s Journalism School, it features assinments like:
Assignment: There are a lot of different companies out there producing some kind of blogging software. SixApart, Google/Blogger, LIveJournal, Weblogs Inc., and Userland, just to name a few. There are others out there. Contact some of these companies and show me what their vision is for the future of the medium. Where is it going and why? What are some of the uses of the blog that they see but which are not being done now for lack of applications? This is a business story, so look at it from that angle. Find out their business plans, their revenue model, how they plan to stay in business and try to tell me stuff I don’t already know. If they’re based in New York, ask to visit their offices and talk to regular employees. Make this a rich story to tell.
Where do we sign up? Is this guy coming to BloggerCon?
from Digital Journalism via Weblog-Ed