Teaching technical skills to journalists.
Teaching journalism students technical skills is essential for both their personal and professional development and the journalism industry as a whole. Here's why.
Topic
Media Hackers
A collection of 17 issues
Why haven't we come up with a solution for misinformation?
Misinformation and disinformation may just be as old as our modern ways of storytelling. We've become increasingly reliant on these online networks and systems, have started to understand their impact, but have failed to prioritize solutions.
Leaning into learning 🧠
I'm leaning into learning and my strengths not only as an educator but as a lifelong learner. If there's anything I've learned from my time across the pond and after speaking at How to Web, it's that this is my biggest strength and what makes me come alive.
Ghost theme documentation basics + using them to update my site.
As I started to update my site this week, I realized that I haven't documented just how I update my site and what critical parts of the Ghost documentation I rely on to build the customizations I need.
Here's a quick preview behind the scenes of what I did to update my site recently.
Cleaning up your personal Notion (so you can actually get use out of it)
Here's how I organized the chaos of my personal Notion workspace without losing my mind (or the material that I've been curating).
Building a community design system.
Building a community design system allows for community builders to communicate efficiently and effectively about the work that they're doing and how it accomplishes long-term objectives.
Building in Public with Arvid Kahl
Arvid wanted to share his journey — and his own writing experience and this became part of his process and his journey. He started with a blog and writing posts and guides about what people were doing.
The importance of language in gathering
In order to ensure not only the stability of industries experiencing rapid growth but also the stability of the individuals who planted the seeds for this growth – we must be precise in the language and terminology in how we gather.
The future belongs to makers.
The future belongs to makers! Now let's pump the breaks and think about our values as creators + fellow internet humans.
A modest proposal for those of us on the internet.
Creating your media product
Understanding what works as a news product, and at the end of the day, choosing
what news product to build can be a make or break for your solopreneurship
journey.
For some in a newsroom, the product development process is something you may or
may not have encountered but not