“Convener”: Sue Ellen Christian
At Sue Ellen’s request, people wrote ideas on slips of paper and gave them to her:
Ethics – how to handle tragedies and not freak out
Asking questions, listening, first hand, eyewitness reporting
How to do an interview
Teach a variety of multimedia skills
Give them a sense of hope for the J. industry
Cultural literacy – and fast – by 2050 U.S. will be a majority of people of color
Writing for the web from breaking news to blogging
Let students design an alternative media enterprise for the city in which they attend school
Please teach them real “Marshall McLuhan”
Journalism students should learn to stimulate the community, to ask good questions of each other and politicians
Make sure they appreciate that news is a conversation, not a lecture
Technorati.com, blogher.com
Explore what journalism is and what it is not
Make them familiar with technology and how to do news on it
Demystify technology, encourage and allow playfulness with it
Ways to incorporate and collaborate different media forms
Ways to avoid being a lazy journalist
Teach citizens to be better journalists. What they need to do as personal journalists.
Teach media literacy and understanding of what each media offers and what doesn’t offer
See Berkeley journalism school website