I focus much of my attention on sports. But I root for few teams. I am a sports writer. I teach sports media. And amid the challenges of learning box scores and the rules of hockey and wrestling, there is a little thing called sports media ethics that are getting tougher and tougher to teach….
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(This column first appeared in the March 2018 newsletter of the AEJMC Media Ethics Division.) On the first day of Ohio State’s spring break, third-year journalism major Zach Varda put on a dress shirt and blazer, tucked his recorder and laptop into a messenger bag, and headed off to the Franklin County Court of Common…
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Note: This post was originally published Oct 10, 2016. Seemed like it might be worth reposting now. #MeToo I was lucky last week to join a “Rock the Vote” team for a panel aimed at helping millennial women understand their importance to the 2016 election. Our focus was non-partisan, but I’m sure you can guess the leanings of two liberal…
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It’s never easy to travel during the semester, but it was worth it to spend part of last week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln talking the status of sports journalism/media programs as part of the first gathering of professors representing sports journalism programs at Big Ten schools. Most inspirational to hear about the offerings from…
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Journalism students at Ohio State University are launching a new podcast, “Student Slant,” to explore issues significant to their generation. Framed around the journalism classes of Prof. Nicole Kraft, topics include the First Amendment, media law and ethics, news concepts and creation, sports and whatever other topics inspire the next generation of journalists. Watch for episode one…
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What an honor to speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in October on a topic near and dear to my heart: our paper, “Making Mojos: How iPads Are Enhancing Mobile Journalism Education,” which was a top paper at the conference. Read all about Mobile Me & You, and check out our paper.
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Interactive Book No. 2 hit the shelves today in the form of “Writing Like Rabbits: A guide to creating and selling magazine articles.” I am especially exited about this book, which comes 10 years to the semester since I first started teaching magazine writing at Ohio State, and I finally have the textbook I feel…
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Apple has launched its first Faculty Speaker Series and, believe it or not, the featured faculty member is me. We spent two days filming in New York and followed up with closeups in New York, and now you can view all of that work on iTunes. Love to hear what you think!
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This has been a year of speaking–literally from New York to California to Texas–spreading the iTunes, flipped class, social media word as it relates to journalism. The winter brought trips to Apple on both coasts–a “showcase” event filmed in New York and an Education Seminar filmed in Cupertino, Calif.–as well as an appearance at SXSWedu…
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After seven weeks of preparation and three days at Apple’s main headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., my first iTunes U course, Media Law & Ethics, went live yesterday. It will surely be the first of many. Hope you will check it out, and read about our incredible experience at Apple in this blog post on Kraft…
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