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DigitalJournos.com - Snapshots of how journalism students drove traffic to their pages

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Snapshots Along the Way. Every Figure Tells a Story. After one day, this is what we were seeing:. Obviously, one student has shot out ahead of the pack in terms of visits to her page. But check out some of the other numbers that are showing up. For instance, check out the bounce rate - not so bad, when you consider that a lot of the people coming to these pages do not speak English as their first language. By Day 2, the traffic was really starting to pour in (especially to a student project):. Google is ...

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DigitalJournos - where journalists learn the skills to survive the Great Digital Migration

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Snapshots Along the Way. The Great Traffic-Driving Experiment. Content may be king . but distribution is queen. And she wears the pants. In J-school, we tend to focus on all the tools, techniques and strategies that are relevant BEFORE a piece of content is released into the wild. The whole issue of what happens after that has long been Someone Else's Problem. Yes, I can already hear the screams of outrage from the Traditional Media Curmudgeons. You want me to maybe mop the floors too? And so this class ...

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Rolling Stone’s ‘A Rape on Campus.’ Notes and comment on Columbia J-school’s investigation. » Pressthink

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Rolling Stone’s ‘A Rape on Campus.’ Notes and comment on Columbia J-school’s investigation. The key decision Rolling Stone made was made at the beginning: to settle on a narrative indifference to campus rape and then go off in search of the story that would work just right for that narrative. First, some essential links:. Here is the text itself: Rolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Report: An anatomy of a journalistic failure. Second, a few disclaimers:. 1 Asking ...

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DigitalJournos.com - what students learned, and what they think about "trash" news

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Snapshots Along the Way. In no particular order, here is the beginning of learning how to Scream Smarter. HUMBLE LITTLE EMAIL STILL TRUMPS SOCIAL MEDIA. With all the attention showered on social media marketing campaigns, having a large mailing list, and people who pay attention to it, is still the quickest and most powerful way to drive traffic to your web page. Scarlett’s ability to reach out to a massive audience via email and get them to click on her page, gave her an insurmountable lead. 6 Of course...

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DigitalJournos.com - about Dave LaFontaine and his unruly students

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Snapshots Along the Way. The students involved in this project all went far above and beyond the call of duty to try to replicate something that they will, in all probability, be experiencing after they graduate. They did this on the heels of working on their midterm projects, which called for them to learn how to do simple animations using Adobe Edge Animate. With a little practice, you can see the basics of design and interactivity taking hold and sprouting.

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Good Old Fashioned Shoe Leather Reporting » Pressthink

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Good Old Fashioned Shoe Leather Reporting. 8220;The scenes in All the President’s Men. That show Woodward and Bernstein crisscrossing Washington on foot and ringing doorbells at night are shoe leather mythology in its most concentrated form. Making calls is good, but one stepped removed from what is most holy…”. This post began as an email to Megan Garber of the Atlantic, who was writing about “hot takes.” She published. Some of what I told her.). Of all things good in journalism.). Leon taught me that w...