The Rumors are True! Shawn Smith Now Unemployed!

June 5, 2009

Well, not exactly unemployed. Starting today, I’m self-employed :-P Today is my last day serving as senior producer for MLive.com. My video explainer (turn your volume all the way up – sorry about that) WHERE I’M GOING Since 2007 I’ve been working on my own internet marketing group with three others. We started by building [...]

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Dear Journalism Students: Do You See Something the Journalism Industry Doesn’t?

April 7, 2009

Forbes reports that while news agencies across the U.S. are slashing budgets and payrolls, journalism schools are actually filling up. Who knew? Says Forbes about J-School applications: Columbia, Stanford and NYU applications increased 38%, 20% and 6%, respectively, from the previous year. Same thing at state schools. The University of Colorado (up 11%), University of [...]

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Your In-Depths Can’t Keep My Interest – The Real Problem of Long Articles Online and What To Do About It

April 1, 2009

Ever notice how the most interesting articles online seem to command too much of your time? Have you ever stopped reading a long article online because you saw that it was paginated into 8 clicks? ‘Ugh, 8? That’s just too much,’ you might have thought. If you’re anything like me, this  happens to you all [...]

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Jon Stewart’s Skewing of CNBC Sends Message You Don’t Need a Journalism Degree or Newspaper Experience to be a Journalist

March 6, 2009

Are we there yet? Have we finally arrived at the realization that the world’s journalists don’t need a j-school degree and newspaper experience to be considered a journalists? If you’re still teetering on the edge, start first by watching Jon Stewart’s skewering of CNBC analysts:                     [...]

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