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The Future Journalist Resource Center

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The is a list of resources that can be used to complement both journalism and communication classes. This is part of the OurBlook's University Partnership program which offers professors free, customized web, tech, and research assistance. Please take a minute to check out past classroom projects.

 

Publications for
Tradigital Journalists


bulletMashable:

bulletPaidcontent.org

bulletReadWriteWeb

bulletLifehacker

bulletPoynter

bulletMediaBistro

bulletMediaite

bulletOnline Journalism Review

 

Expert Interview Series:

To date, over 100 interviews have been collected, ranging from individuals like John Yemma, Mike Hoyt, and Mitch Joel.


Social Media

Future of Journalism

Future Journalist

Future of Advertising

Citizen Journalists

 

SEO Resources

 

Networks and Blogs

SEO for Journalists
The blog is written by a former reporter who is now web content specialist.

Intro SEO copy writing Tips
Intro for beginners

7-experts-on-how-to-market-a-website-on-a-budget/
These are tactics that journalists should at least be familiar with when writing for the web. Great article b/c its made up of opinions from well known web experts.

General Overview of SEO/SEM:(3  part series)

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

SEOdmoz
The most important website for SEO news

On The Media Game:
Media Tidbits and Quick Hits from High and Low

Wired Journalist

Muck Rack

Journalist Tweets

Newsvine

Help a Reporter Out

Tweet Deck

 

Twitter Tools

HootSuite – Track track tweets, manage several Twitter accounts at the same time, and schedule when your tweets will be posted.

Twiangulate – Find out who are the people following you

FriendorFollow – Find out who is and isn't following you back

Twitcam – Records and automatically posts a link of vid to your twitter account

Twitpic – Easily post pics to your twitter account

Search.twitter.com – Identify trending topics.

Monitter.com – Search tweets by location.