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Universities need to begin teaching online journalism now

By Kevin OKeefe

With our growing work on LexMonitor and teaching the art of blogging, citizen journalism, and social media to what's about 1,000 lawyer clients, LexBlog hires journalism and communication students, both as interns and as full time employees upon graduation. Unfortunately, for new media companies like LexBlog and traditional main stream media companies, graduating journalism students are woefully unprepared for the real world. A world where online investigative reporting via blogging and the effective use of RSS, citizen journalism, and social media are as, if not more, important than print. The irony is that newspapers and traditional media are laying off high paid senior people and would love to have students with a hungry work ethic skilled in the ways of new media...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).