Comments on: Share your wisdom with UF students http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/ A world for online journalists. Come all ye scribes, artists and innovators of the press. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cory Armstrong http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Cory Armstrong Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:27:36 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-46 I agree Danny. I've been waiting for the update on what you told your students. Since we're offering advice (I know I'm late:), I'd offer up one additional piece: learning to use Excel and manipulate data. I've been told by reporters/editors that learning to feel comfortable with numbers will be a huge plus. So much information is online now that the more you know about what to do with it, the better you'll be. I agree Danny. I’ve been waiting for the update on what you told your students. Since we’re offering advice (I know I’m late:), I’d offer up one additional piece: learning to use Excel and manipulate data. I’ve been told by reporters/editors that learning to feel comfortable with numbers will be a huge plus. So much information is online now that the more you know about what to do with it, the better you’ll be.

]]> By: Mindy McAdams http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Mindy McAdams Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:26:53 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-43 I would love to see a fresh post from you, Danny, that summarizes the best of these tips. It would be VERY linkable ... I would love to see a fresh post from you, Danny, that summarizes the best of these tips. It would be VERY linkable …

]]> By: Kristen Novak http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Kristen Novak Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:48:34 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-39 As a newbie in the field of multimedia journalism (just started my first "real" job last January), here is what I have found the most useful - sorry there are four not three: 1. Understand what the different types of media are - text, audio, video, photos, infographics - and how they work. You don't have to be the best at each of them, but understand them and their purpose. 2. Learn how to tell a story. Forget the platform and focus on the story and how to best tell it. (Each media can be used to best convey something...why are you choosing video to tell a certain story over photographs with audio? Maybe because there is a lot of action you would otherwise miss out on, etc...) 3. Get experience NOW! INTERN! WORK! Don't restrict yourself to anything in particular. Think about the big picture and use internships/jobs to get skills - I interned for a wide array of companies and honed my skills not only in journalism but also in design, programming, and development). 4. Make use of the technology available to you! Biggest question in interviews: Do you have a blog and what is it about? Everyone has a passion - write about yours on a blog to get experience and practice! And if you are a visual person, don't feel left out - make your blog using photo stories or videos. As a newbie in the field of multimedia journalism (just started my first “real” job last January), here is what I have found the most useful – sorry there are four not three:
1. Understand what the different types of media are – text, audio, video, photos, infographics – and how they work. You don’t have to be the best at each of them, but understand them and their purpose.
2. Learn how to tell a story. Forget the platform and focus on the story and how to best tell it. (Each media can be used to best convey something…why are you choosing video to tell a certain story over photographs with audio? Maybe because there is a lot of action you would otherwise miss out on, etc…)
3. Get experience NOW! INTERN! WORK! Don’t restrict yourself to anything in particular. Think about the big picture and use internships/jobs to get skills – I interned for a wide array of companies and honed my skills not only in journalism but also in design, programming, and development).
4. Make use of the technology available to you! Biggest question in interviews: Do you have a blog and what is it about? Everyone has a passion – write about yours on a blog to get experience and practice! And if you are a visual person, don’t feel left out – make your blog using photo stories or videos.

]]> By: m@tt http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-34 m@tt Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:37:22 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-34 From someone that was hired one year ago at a 90,000 daily as a phone clerk and has moved up quite a bit in one year, students must know in three years that a degree doesn't mean they can walk into a newsroom and become a columnist and/or the No. 1 reporter. You must start somewhere, and that somewhere is traditionally a very low place (low as in on the totem pole and in the pay scale) Also, read a newspaper. Every day. I can't tell you, as a former EIC of one of the top JC papers in SoCal for a year, people come in not reading one inch of a newspaper (sure, plenty of blogs and web sites) but rarely did I find someone who actually read a newspaper. To me, it shows when reading their copy. From someone that was hired one year ago at a 90,000 daily as a phone clerk and has moved up quite a bit in one year, students must know in three years that a degree doesn’t mean they can walk into a newsroom and become a columnist and/or the No. 1 reporter. You must start somewhere, and that somewhere is traditionally a very low place (low as in on the totem pole and in the pay scale)

Also, read a newspaper. Every day. I can’t tell you, as a former EIC of one of the top JC papers in SoCal for a year, people come in not reading one inch of a newspaper (sure, plenty of blogs and web sites) but rarely did I find someone who actually read a newspaper. To me, it shows when reading their copy.

]]> By: Danny Sanchez http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Danny Sanchez Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:13:32 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-33 I'm glad everyone is pitching in with advice for my brethren at UF. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far and those who posted on their own blogs about this (<a href="http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/" rel="nofollow">Bryan Murley</a>, <a href="http://tojou.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Mindy McAdams</a>, <a href="http://jaccblog.blogspot.com/ rel="nofollow">Rich Cameron</a>, lotsa love to you folks). Not only will I be providing this advice to the students, but I'll also be using this as a personal example of how readers can become a part of developing a story and improving it with their insights -- simply if you take the time to ask them nicely! Again, thanks everyone; I'll let you all know how it goes after Monday! I’m glad everyone is pitching in with advice for my brethren at UF. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far and those who posted on their own blogs about this (Bryan Murley, Mindy McAdams, Rich Cameron, lotsa love to you folks).

Not only will I be providing this advice to the students, but I’ll also be using this as a personal example of how readers can become a part of developing a story and improving it with their insights — simply if you take the time to ask them nicely!

Again, thanks everyone; I’ll let you all know how it goes after Monday!

]]> By: Danny Sanchez http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Danny Sanchez Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:03:52 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-32 I'm glad everyone is pitching in with advice for my brethren at UF. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far and those who posted on their own blogs about this (Bryan Murley, Mindy McAdams, lotsa love to you guys). Not only will I be providing this advice to the students, but I'll also be using this as a personal example of how readers can become a part of developing a story and improving it with their insights -- simply if you take the time to ask them nicely! Again, thanks everyone; I'll let you all know how it goes! I’m glad everyone is pitching in with advice for my brethren at UF. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far and those who posted on their own blogs about this (Bryan Murley, Mindy McAdams, lotsa love to you guys).

Not only will I be providing this advice to the students, but I’ll also be using this as a personal example of how readers can become a part of developing a story and improving it with their insights — simply if you take the time to ask them nicely!

Again, thanks everyone; I’ll let you all know how it goes!

]]> By: Bryan Murley http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Bryan Murley Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:01:16 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-31 Hey, Paul, that's WAAAYYY more than three. :-) Hey, Paul, that’s WAAAYYY more than three. :-)

]]> By: Paul Conley http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Paul Conley Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:23:26 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-30 1. Become a great reporter -- know how to work a phone, work a room, flirt with a secretary, cozy up to a crook, convince an untrustworthy politician to trust you, get regular people to feel comfortable with you, learn to feel comfortable around powerful people, always carry a mechanical pencil and double-check the spelling of people's names. 2. Become great with the computer -- know the ins and outs of every content-management system you can find, understand at least the basics of html, be able to work in Flash and Photoshop as easily as you can work in Word, build something online using open-source software such as WordPress or Joomla, learn to work a spreadsheet like an investment banker and an audio file like a sound technician, always carry a digital camera and double-check the spelling of people's names. 3. Become a great person -- be fair in your reporting and kind to strangers, keep your complaints to a minimum, work harder than the people around you, learn to understand yourself before trying to get others to understand you, don't dress like a bum, call your Mom, always carry spare change for the winos and double-check the spelling of people's names. 1. Become a great reporter — know how to work a phone, work a room, flirt with a secretary, cozy up to a crook, convince an untrustworthy politician to trust you, get regular people to feel comfortable with you, learn to feel comfortable around powerful people, always carry a mechanical pencil and double-check the spelling of people’s names.
2. Become great with the computer — know the ins and outs of every content-management system you can find, understand at least the basics of html, be able to work in Flash and Photoshop as easily as you can work in Word, build something online using open-source software such as WordPress or Joomla, learn to work a spreadsheet like an investment banker and an audio file like a sound technician, always carry a digital camera and double-check the spelling of people’s names.
3. Become a great person — be fair in your reporting and kind to strangers, keep your complaints to a minimum, work harder than the people around you, learn to understand yourself before trying to get others to understand you, don’t dress like a bum, call your Mom, always carry spare change for the winos and double-check the spelling of people’s names.

]]> By: Teaching Online Journalism http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Teaching Online Journalism Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:50:23 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-29 <strong>What a journalist needs to know now...</strong> Tell Danny by posting a comment at his blog. There are a few good ideas there already.... What a journalist needs to know now…

Tell Danny by posting a comment at his blog. There are a few good ideas there already….

]]> By: Innovation in College Media » Blog Archive » What does a journalist need to know? http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Innovation in College Media » Blog Archive » What does a journalist need to know? Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:59:30 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-28 [...] Danny Sanchez asks: What are the top three things a freshman journalism student should do or know to be a competitive job candidate three years from now? [...] [...] Danny Sanchez asks: What are the top three things a freshman journalism student should do or know to be a competitive job candidate three years from now? [...]

]]> By: Bryan Murley http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Bryan Murley Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:50:47 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-27 I think the editor of the News-Record gives some good advice: http://blog.news-record.com/staff/jrblog/archives/2006/09/jan_schaefer_of.html also, howard owens: http://www.howardowens.com/index.cfm?action=full_text&ARTICLE_ID=2277 I think it comes down to three attitudes: 1. Excitement about change 2. Desire to learn new things 3. Embrace the "other" - i.e., the community If you have these three attitudes, the skills and knowledge will naturally flow. I think the editor of the News-Record gives some good advice: http://blog.news-record.com/staff/jrblog/archives/2006/09/jan_schaefer_of.html

also, howard owens:
http://www.howardowens.com/index.cfm?action=full_text&ARTICLE_ID=2277

I think it comes down to three attitudes:

1. Excitement about change

2. Desire to learn new things

3. Embrace the “other” – i.e., the community

If you have these three attitudes, the skills and knowledge will naturally flow.

]]> By: Lex http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Lex Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:53 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2006/10/09/share-your-wisdom-with-uf-students/#comment-26 If you don't know how to think logically and critically, if you don't know how to ask the right questions (and, sometimes, keep asking them), all the technical expertise in the world won't matter. If you don’t know how to think logically and critically, if you don’t know how to ask the right questions (and, sometimes, keep asking them), all the technical expertise in the world won’t matter.

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