{"id":27,"date":"2003-09-23T14:57:13","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/09\/23\/what-should-journalism-schools-teach-a"},"modified":"2003-09-23T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T18:57:13","slug":"what-should-journalism-schools-teach-about-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2003\/09\/23\/what-should-journalism-schools-teach-about-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"What should journalism schools teach about blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a30'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a possible summer 2004 panel discussion at a journalism education conference&#8230;<br \/>\nHow can &#8220;mass communication&#8221; scholars look at weblogs? Should journalism educators be teaching future professional journalists about blogs? Should we be teaching future bloggers about journalism, from fact-checking and headline-writing to libel law? <\/p>\n<p>This is my first draft of a panel proposal&#8230; Comments appreciated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Weblogs, newspapers and political coverage:<br \/>\nNew roles for professionals in a world of amateurs?<br \/>\n<br \/>1. Blogs by opinion columnists (everyone an &#8220;instapundit&#8221;?)<br \/>\n2. Blogs by reporters (with or without gatekeeping editors!?)<br \/>\n3. Blogs to invite public tips and comments (participatory journalism or token &#8220;interactivity&#8221;)<br \/>\n4. Blogs as something to cover. Identifying important voices versus &#8220;blogrolling&#8221;? Who has time to read this stuff? How do you sort out grassroots and astroturf?<br \/>\n5. Using blogs and Web linkage to supplement newspapers: Linkage to document opinions with facts, link opposing opinions for public debate <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2003\/09\/23.html#a61\"><font color=\"navy\">Growing version<\/font><\/a> of this item.<br \/>\nEarlier related <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2003\/09\/03.html\"><font color=\"navy\">weblog entry<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/'><font color=\"navy\">What should journalism schools teach about blogs?<\/font> &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a possible summer 2004 panel discussion at a journalism education conference&#8230; How can &#8220;mass communication&#8221; scholars look at weblogs? Should journalism educators be teaching future professional journalists about blogs? Should we be teaching future bloggers about journalism, from fact-checking and headline-writing to libel law? This is my first draft of a panel proposal&#8230; Comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}