Give readers visuals every 250 words
Use the scroll test to determine where to break up text online.
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Writing
Email newsletters bring stories directly to readers
Staffs use email newsletters to engage readers, cut through the noisy news landscape
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Mixed media online project serves as inspiration for student journalists
Online project exploring individuals’ lives after prison valuable for students to explore
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This tutorial explains how to easily transcribe your audio interview files with Adobe Premiere Pro
If you have access to Adobe Premiere Pro, you’ve got a great tool to easily transcribe all those Voice Memo
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We’ll be online-only next year, and that’s OK
The news arrived abruptly at the end of the 2020-21 school year: Starting in 2022-23, our school district was cutting
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JEA Curriculum Highlight: Chunking, Linking and Liking – Making Online Stories Reader-Friendly
If you’re looking for a nice 45-90 minute activity for class that should help your writers level up their online
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A scriptwriting activity that sticks with students
Scriptwriting can be a hard sell to students who like to drop their interviews on a timeline and then begin
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Readers don’t leave Instagram. Here’s how news organizations are working with that
Sorry, but no one is clicking that “link in bio” on your Instagram account.
Don’t worry, though; it’s not you. Turns out, Instagram makes it pretty hard for creators to link out to their content elsewhere, which is why more and more news organizations are bringing their stories directly to the platform.
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5 Great Tips For Announcers To Close Out A Live Broadcast
The other day I was listening to a Lindenwood University football game on the radio. A former student of mine
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