Archive for 'Staff Structure'
Secrets of a Successful Broadcast Journalism Program
Posted on 28. Dec, 2011 by Michael Hernandez.
Tweet The challenges of establishing and maintaining a broadcast journalism program are numerous. How do you generate story ideas? What do you say to students who want to produce a comedy show? How do you grade students? What are the best cameras and editing systems to use and how many will you need? And then [...]
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Goal statements: How to grade without rubrics
Posted on 08. Nov, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet Last month, I attended KEMPA’s regional high school journalism conference, and I went to a session taught by an experienced newspaper adviser. She gave valuable advice to new advisers, including myself. One of the things she shared was her extensive rubric for grading that gives me heart palpitations just thinking about. Grading is often [...]
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“We only have 10 on staff, we can’t move online.” Yes, you can.
Posted on 28. Oct, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet So many staffs talk about not having the resources or the manpower to move online. A year ago I was speaking in Michigan and met Jake Lourim. Jake runs Troy Colt Sports Update, a website covering sports at his school. He runs it by himself – and has for three years. And I’ll tell [...]
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Assessing a crazy converged newsroom
Posted on 14. Oct, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
Tweet This year we took two separate publications, a print newspaper staff and an online staff, and merged them into one staff that produces a monthly newsmagazine and a daily website. It’s become one big, crazy newsroom with lots of bodies moving in different directions working on wildly different assignments all at the same time. [...]
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From Small to Big: The Challenges of Staff Size
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Evelyn Lauer.
Tweet Five students. At the beginning of last year, that’s all I had in my newspaper production class. I wondered: How is anything going to get done? Twenty-five: The current number of students in my newspaper class. I still wonder: How is anything going to get done? The circumstances maybe the different, but the challenge [...]
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We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee [...]
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Run MAMP with Word Press locally, without access to a server
Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 by Michelle Harmon.
Tweet MAMP– Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP–installs a local server environment on Mac OS X computers. Consider installing this free software program (or a paid version) on each staff lab computer to allow students to experiment with Word Press without having any impact on server files. It’s a safe zone for learners (and teachers)! Students can [...]
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[Handout] What’s the difference between WordPress user roles?
Posted on 27. Jun, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet I’d battled this question long enough without a good answer. I know there is documentation out there that spells this out easily, I just needed something verbal and visual that I understood to get it all to make sense for me. I could never remember who had the ability to publish posts or who [...]
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Staff Positions: Converge all media copy under a Writing Czar
Posted on 05. Jun, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
Tweet I’m a big fan of playing to the strengths of my editors and fitting positions to meet their strengths instead of trying to make them fit into a predescribed mold. As a result, in my 13 years of advising I’ve never had a staff structure look the same. I advise the newspaper, yearbook, web [...]
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