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Me? Helping college kids do interwebs? IDK WTF??
Yesterday I wrapped up a week-long stint as a faculty member at the New York Times Student Journalism Institute at Dillard University in New Orleans. The program is a pretty sweet deal for the kids. They get to work in a newsroom setting where Times staffers assign them stories and help them through the process of interviewing, writing and copy editing. The result is a full daily edition of the Times that includes upwards of 60 stories.
Oh yeah. Nowadays newspapers are useless unless they have an accompanying Web site. That’s where my help partly came in, as I guided students on posting stories to the site and creating multimedia content to accompany those articles. The work included photo galleries, audio slideshows, videos, audio clips, and even a timeline. I was impressed by the finish work, which you can view here.
