Online editing exercises and resources

By   |  5:38 pm May 3, 2011

Follow these links for additional resources for information on editing online, plus links to some online editing exercises.

  • Center for Journalism Ethics — Includes an online ethics issues including accuracy, new media trends and gatekeeping from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Editing Breaking News Online — Exercise created by Bill Cloud, University of North Carolina, and published on editteach.org. Read more here.
  • Editing for the Web — Exercises and discussion by Jim Stovall, creator of JProf and professor at the University of Tennessee. … Discussion of online editing; editing exercise is here.
  • MediaShift —  Tracks how new media are changing society and culture.
  • Online Editing — Video featuring Paula Devlin, online news editor at The Times-Picayune. View here.
  • Online Journalism Review — Partnership between the University of Southern California Annenberg School and the University of California – Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Read more here.
  • Think Press — Jay Rosen’s articles, blog posts and musings about new media in a changing media landscape. Read the blog.
  • The Poynter Institute — Online journalism ethics guidelines from linking, user-generated content and workplace issues to credibility and accuracy. Read more.
  • Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshops 2010, 2009, 2008 — Web archive of online media ethics speakers, panels and programs
 … For 2010 workshop, click here. For 2009 workshop, click here.
  • Standards for Digital Breaking News Coverage — From Steve Buttry’s workshop sponsored by Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Read the discussion and get a handout here.
  • Teaching Online Journalism —  Websites and blogs by Mindy McAdams

Jan Leach is an assistant professor of journalism at Kent State University and director of KSU’s Media Law Center for Ethics and Access. She is coordinator of the annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop and is an Ethics Fellow at The Poynter Institute. Before joining Kent State in 2004, she worked at various newspapers including five years as Editor/VP of the Akron Beacon Journal. E-mail her at jleach1@kent.edu.

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