Education

Ideas for visiting Virginia Commonwealth University graduate journalism class

I’ll be trekking down to Richmond, the capitol of the commonwealth I now call home, to speak with a graduate-level online journalism class on Friday evening. My esteemed Publish2 colleague (and all-around awesome dude) Ryan Sholin was not able to attend and I’ve been invited to discuss what we do, how journalism is changing and whatever [...]


Announcing the beta launch of Multimedia Standards

After some teasing on Twitter (with the recently neglected #multimediastandards hashtag), we’re now ready to announce the beta launch of Multimedia Standards!
The site was created by 13 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Miami as part of Rich Beckman’s spring 2009 Seminar in Visual Storytelling class. It’s built on WordPress using a heavily [...]


June 18 at noon EDT: Poynter live chat about avoiding social media overload

UPDATE: The chat is now embedded below.
Yet another CoverItLive blog! Yes, on Thursday at 1 p.m. EDT I will help lead a Poynter live chat about avoiding social media overload (during my lunch break):
How Do I Help Students Handle Information Overload on Social Media Sites?
The URL is simple and easy to remember (and tweet!), so [...]


Feedback request for video class final project

Below is a near-final draft version of a video Jackie Villavicencio and I did for our video journalism class. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

The Andersons from Greg Linch on Vimeo.


I’ve been selected for the Poynter Fellowship for College Journalists 2009

I learned Tuesday by e-mail that I’ve been selected as one of 40 students to participate in the Poynter Fellowship for College Journalists this summer. It takes place May 17-29 at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
I doubt that it needs to be said, but I’m extremely excited. As I wrote in my essay, [...]