Will Sommer

BBC to open up thousands of training documents

This sounds delicious: The BBC has created a series of global journalism training sites as part of the launch of its Virtual College of Journalism, scheduled for six weeks time...The sites will give public access to BBC training resources and guides. The main BBC College of Journalism site (expected to launch at www.bbc.co.uk/journalism) will feature 250 films, 2,500 pages of articles and a range of self-testing services. How can we be expected to wait six weeks for [+]

24 ways to improve your news site

Soon, you'll be slinging information like this guy Brian Murley at Innovation in College Media is trying to put together an informal list of online journalism ideas that could help improve a college paper's website (or any news site, really).  They're arranged in descending order of difficulty. He hasn't added resources for implementation yet, so I'm electing myself for crowdsourcing and doing it myself. Here are some tools to pull off each of Murley's ideas (except for [+]

Learn Flash journalism with a game

Knowing even a little Flash can add a new dimension to your journalism. Here's why Flash journalism guru Mindy McAdams thinks journalists should learn Flash (emphasis added): Six hours with Flash is akin to taking a six-hour cooking class about an exotic foreign cuisine that you have hardly ever tasted before, much less tried to re-create in your own kitchen. You are NOT going to know enough after six hours to go home and whip up [+]