We ended the first full week of classes in the multimedia newsroom on an up note Friday. The students who will be making sense out of all this technology, my online editing class, met in the newsroom's training area for the first time.
Our guest during class was Tom Bell, editor and publisher of the Salina Journal. Our topic: "The future of newspapers and TV news in an online world." Friday's class was the kind of a morning that keeps teachers in the business. The students were prepared and engaged. Tom said he was impressed. The discussion was stimulating.
We talked about anonymous call-€in lines and new economic models for Web newspapers. And these young journalists had some definite ideas about the future. Take a look at what Matt Rodriguez, for one, had to say. You will be meeting all these students on the blog as the semester rolls forward.
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