Comments on: ACP/CMA conference: the good and the bad http://www.anthonyjpesce.com/?p=35 a guide to life, the universe and new media Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: CMA Reflections: An Entrepreneurial Journalist is a Successful Journalist! | http://www.anthonyjpesce.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-118 CMA Reflections: An Entrepreneurial Journalist is a Successful Journalist! | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:55:25 +0000 http://www.anthonyjpesce.com/?p=35#comment-118 [...] colleagues at the College Media Advisers conference, my non-twittering Washburn colleagues, and the college media blogosphere to the general mood at the Kansas City conference this past week. The  consensus [...] [...] colleagues at the College Media Advisers conference, my non-twittering Washburn colleagues, and the college media blogosphere to the general mood at the Kansas City conference this past week. The  consensus [...]

]]> By: Miles http://www.anthonyjpesce.com/?p=35&cpage=1#comment-10 Miles Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:39:44 +0000 http://www.anthonyjpesce.com/?p=35#comment-10 During our website critique, the guy giving it discussed how the ACP had purchased a portable computer lab which can be easily shipped across the country. However, the vast majority of people seem to have laptops ... so there doesn't seem to be any good reason not to offer basic things like CSS or HTML workshops which wouldn't require additional software. The problem seems to be that the people who teach all the sessions and lead all the organizations are advisers who, in general, have never taken multimedia classes, don't work in modern newsrooms, and have no real incentive to change their operations unless their students force it on them. On a side note, I was in one session where the presenter angrily called all sites that don't do original reporting "rumor mongers." During our website critique, the guy giving it discussed how the ACP had purchased a portable computer lab which can be easily shipped across the country. However, the vast majority of people seem to have laptops … so there doesn’t seem to be any good reason not to offer basic things like CSS or HTML workshops which wouldn’t require additional software.

The problem seems to be that the people who teach all the sessions and lead all the organizations are advisers who, in general, have never taken multimedia classes, don’t work in modern newsrooms, and have no real incentive to change their operations unless their students force it on them.

On a side note, I was in one session where the presenter angrily called all sites that don’t do original reporting “rumor mongers.”

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