February 27, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
The newsroom at the Rocky Mountain News found out yesterday that Friday, February 27 would be its final edition. It was heart breaking to read and watch. What made it extra painful was how the newsroom came together to share the painful experience with anyone who wanted to watch. Through the day I followed their [...]
February 26, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
After a huge revolt against Facebook’s Terms of Service the company announced it plans to go about things differently. In the Facebook Blog, we learn that members will be asked to vote on new Facebook Principals and a new Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. I will be very curious to see how many people read [...]
February 25, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
I am one of the younger faculty members at the Missouri School of Journalism. I’m also a bit energetic. Okay. I have a lot of energy. So when I present the faculty with a new idea or a great concept… Some of them tune me out because they assume they won’t understand what the heck [...]
Posted by Jen Reeves
And they say I should blog more often. Thanks to everyone who gave me input from yesterday’s blog post where I asked what makes a great blogger. Obviously a great blogger posts more often than I do… And may have a better sense of humor than I have. But I sure as heck can give [...]
February 24, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m sitting in a room with Matt Thompson and Jane Stevens while Matt holds a small group session on what makes great blogging. I strive to be a great blogger but I’ve found a number of things get in my way: My new found obsession with health (I’m working out 6-7 days a week) I [...]
February 18, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
As a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, I have the opportunity to focus on projects that I wouldn’t normally have as much focused time to get the job done. So it’s exciting to see many things starting to emerge here at the Missouri School of Journalism. I’m teaching 21 students this semester and I have them all [...]
February 11, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
I don’t seem to write much about things without throwing Twitter into the topic line — I’ll work on that since there are SO many interesting developments and discussions that I’m involved in these days as we try to create a new future for journalism. But first I need to mention my pet project that [...]
February 10, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
Here I go again… Talking about Twitter. But I just got involved in a really interesting conversation on Twitter that I think is worth bringing to this blog (Thanks to Scott Hepburn’s encouragement). I’ve been on Twitter a while — I obviously blog and speak about it a bunch. I also like to share how to [...]
@laurenreid that will be fun. You must come back and talk to my class sometime!
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