Showing posts with label student newsroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student newsroom. Show all posts

Ask the newsroom: 8 editors and reporters from The Kansas City Star share tips for young journalists

Photo courtesy of Flickr user James Cridland

By Rose McManus

From being unique in your writing, to finding your first real job, reporters and editors from The Kansas City Star offer up their best pieces of advice for aspiring journalists.





An insider's look at ONA15

Photo of Online Journalism Awards
by Katy Mersmann
By Katy Mersmann

Did you miss me? I'm back from the ONA conference and back posting on this blog for a day. I was on the ONA Student Newsroom, reporting in L.A. on the conference, which gave me a really different perspective on the conference. With our current executive board sharing their take on ONA from afar, I figured those of us in student newsroom could add a little bit about our take on the conference from inside the newsroom.

How to #JICONF If You Missed #JICONF

By Madison Feller

photo by Shelby Mann
Last weekend, the Missouri School of Journalism and RJI hosted #JICONF, or Journalism Interactive, the conference on journalism education and digital media. Throughout the weekend, professionals and students participated in panels and workshops about newsroom analytics, viral content, innovations and more. But if you weren't able to attend any of the weekend's events, you can still catch up. Here's the ONA Mizzou guide to learning from #JICONF—even if you didn't actually go to #JICONF:

Five takeaways from ONA 2013 for students

By Elise Schmelzer
The student newsroom at ONA13.
Photo courtesy of Laura Davison.
For some, this weekend was filled with tailgating and college football. Others spent the weekend in Atlanta learning about the future of digital journalism at the Online News Association's annual conference.

Laura Davison, an MU graduate student and former secretary of ONA Mizzou, was selected to work in the conference's student newsroom. Along with 19 other students, she spent the weekend recording the conference through blog posts, tweets and videos. From what they've collected, here are five ideas from the conference that students can apply to their own work.