Today I had the opportunity to visit my alma mater, Rowan University, to speak with journalism students about hyperlocal Web sites.
My colleague, Gannett NJ Digital Development Director Ted Mann, and I were invited by Online Journalism Professor Mark Berkey-Gerard to address students about hyperlocal Web sites, how they’re made and used by news organizations and private citizens, and we also told students about our work with InJersey.
Click here to see my colleague’s slideshow presentation which we used at the beginning of our session today.
Since I’m a recent graduate, and know many of the students personally, I spoke about what journalism students should be doing to get their names out there and find employment. (I’ll add some more posts soon that includes more of my advice for college journalism students.)
I’m looking forward to the possibility of working with Rowan’s journalism department more in the future and hope we can find ways to partner their department with our print and online publications.
