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From Mashable.Com

With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook () or Twitter (), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

And though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are the 10 ways journalism schools are currently teaching students to use social media. Please share in the comments others that you have found to be important and effective as well.

May 27 JTM Stewards Call Notes – compiled by Leigh Montgomery

Attendees:

Peggy Holman
Barry Parr
Steve Hanson
Leigh Montgomery

Website update:

Steve wants to replace ‘People’ tab with Profiles of those who have ‘signed on’ on the JTM site – will be done by webmaster

Jonathan Lawson, Michelle Ferrier and Peggy will discuss longer term direction for the site, to bring ‘content out of conferences,’[spaces] make it more visible, searchable, utilitarian

Suggestion for discussion forum other than Google Groups

JTM update:

Three conversations going on:

1. Bill Densmore: working on event to be held at Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA in September – pertains to civic engagement – will need more detail from Bill
2. Peggy:  Exploring a possible first – a regional JTM event, around a (working) central question such as:  How does journalism support the cultural health of a region?
3. Potential JTM event focused on people of color – similar to Silicon Valley event with intersection of tech and journalism, this would include outreach to journalism orgs, groups etc -

Note: These last two are in a nascent stage, still getting focused / funding etc.

Stephen Silha is speaking to Kellogg Foundation about supporting JTM as a whole – grant proposal needs to be put together

Original article at The Guardian.

Rupert ­Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ­"malfunctioning" business model.

Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an "epochal" debate over whether to charge. "That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience," he said.