Posted on Mar 30, 2010

The Future of Journalism: New Business Models

Join us 5-7 p.m. PST on April 1 for a chat about business models in journalism.

Moderated by @digidave.

We’ll be discussing:

  • Are paywalls helping or hurting us?
  • Should news sites be non profit or for profit?
  • Who should be funding media? Government? Corporations?
  • and much more!

As always, send a tweet to @wjchat is you have questions you’d like answered!

Posted on Mar 23, 2010

Law + Web journalism

Join us 5-7 p.m. PST on March 24 for a chat about law in the cyberage.

We’ll be discussing:

  • The blogger/journalist debate
  • How to handle corrections
  • Libel, lawsuits….
  • and much more!

As always, send a tweet to @wjchat is you have questions you’d like answered!

Posted on Mar 17, 2010

Reporting with Social Media

Join us 5-7 p.m. PST on March 17 for a chat about reporting with social media.

We’ll be discussing:

  • Whether your reporting suffers from the immediacy of social media
  • How to interview using Twitter and other tools
  • and much more!

As always, send a tweet to @wjchat is you have questions you’d like answered!

(P.S. I know that the highlights from last week are late, but they’ll be up soon!)

Posted on Mar 10, 2010

Numbers: Not the Nightmare You Think They Are

Moderated by @gotoplanb, AKA Dave Stanton, Technology Fellow at The Poynter Institute, Instructor at the University of Florida and News design and cognition researcher.

Join us 5-7 p.m. PST for a lively discussion on numbers, data and visualization.

We’ll be discussing:

  • How to get the numbers you need
  • Putting numbers into context for your audience
  • The best kind of visualizations
  • And much, much more!

Got a burning question? Tweet it to @wjchat for consideration.

Posted on Mar 2, 2010

Making It In (And Remaking) Web Journalism

Moderated by @kelseyproud.

Join us 5-7 p.m. PST for a lively discussion on what it takes to get a job these days.

We’ll be discussing:

  • What do you need in your portfolio?
  • How do you stand out in a sea of job seekers?
  • anything you’ve wondered about job-seeking as a new (or new-ish) grad.

Got a burning question? Tweet it to @wjchat for consideration.

Posted on Feb 24, 2010

Beyond the Story: Multimedia and Interactive Projects

Moderated by @10000words.

Join us at 5-7 p.m. PST for a great chat about interactive and multimedia storytelling.

We’ll be discussing:

  • Breaking News and Multimedia
  • Your Favorite Tools for Interactive
  • Plenty more!

Got  a question you need answered? Tweet it to @wjchat for consideration.

Posted on Feb 16, 2010

Speaking Geek: A discussion about journalism and coding

Join us tomorrow night for a discussion between the coders and the journalists in newsrooms….or are they the same?

This discussion will be moderated by Greg Linch, @greglinch on Twitter.

We’ll be discussing…

- Programmers and journalists in the newsroom
- What journalists and developers can learn from each, both in terms of skills and beyond
- What are good general resources and specific tricks

Invite the journogeeks, hacker journalists and whoever else to talk to us about the tech side of web journalism.

And as always, send any questions you’d like answered via Twitter to @wjchat