Give the students credit.

They were handed an ambitious goal and, when I lost my nerve and pulled the plug on their journalism project, “The New Bullying,” they plugged it back in and made it work.

The advanced reporting class… Read more

In this week’s career chat, Marc Samson talked about Pressfolios, a new Web application that helps journalists build and manage an online portfolio of their news stories.

Samson, who is Pressfolio’s co-founder, talked about how journalists can benefit… Read more

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Everett J. Mitchell II, managing editor of The Medicare NewsGroup. The site features original and curated content that’s aimed at journalists covering Medicare.

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Recently, Beijing-based journalist Debra Bruno wrote a column describing how the search for diverse job candidates turned her into “a Facebook stalker” when she worked at Roll Call. When she ran the site’s internship program, she was told… Read more

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Wade Roush, chief correspondent at Xconomy, and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. Xconomy, a site that covers tech trends and companies, has reporters in Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego,… Read more

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Lila LaHood, director of operations and development at SF Public Press, an independent nonprofit that focuses on in-depth news. LaHood has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School… Read more

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Larry Olmstead, vice president of organizational development at United Way Silicon Valley. He was formerly a vice president with Knight Ridder and managing editor at the Miami Herald. He also ran… Read more

Booth Newspapers and MLive.com recently consolidated under the name MLive Media Group, which launched last Thursday.

MLive Media Group and Advance Central Services Michigan now operate AnnArbor.com, MLive.com and Booth Newspapers, and are taking a digital-first approach. More than… Read more