The webpage for the Convergence Reporting II course at Abilene Christian University
Free Press is suggesting an analog to a carbon tax on fossil fuels — but atoning for the attention economy’s perils instead of climate change.
For as long as I can remember, journalism metrics in general, and particularly reach metrics—like pageviews and unique users—have been the subject of profound suspicion within the news industry. In recent years, the negativity has intensified, even from people I generally admire. Metrics have come to be synonymous, for some people, with a bankrupt journalistic […]
Source: You may hate metrics. But they’re making journalism better. – Columbia Journalism Review
The levels of media literacy are too low to sustain high-quality journalism.
Source: Media literacy is crucial to help sustain high-quality journalism — Quartz
City Bureau is training young reporters to improve coverage of underserved communities.
Source: How Chicago’s ‘J-school of the Streets’ Is Reinventing Local News – POLITICO Magazine
