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At most universities, students are required to take English composition courses, and at many others speech and/or foreign language classes are also required. Yet in the debate about teaching code in journalism programs, code is often reduced to a shiny toy.

Very interesting story about a new report from the folks at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard (major, huge, prestigious journalism think tank) and what Twitter is doing to campaign coverage. Things have changed A LOT since I was covering George W. Bush on the presidential campaign trail in 2000. See what you think....

This digital journalism instructor points out flaws in Engine Lite.

One of your classmates said there was problem with the link, so I am re-sending. Also, someone else asked for details of the blogging assignment. Remember, you are to research Reddit. Get on the site, look around and then find out, from it and other sources, what, if any, remedies the participants in the Tripathi timeline offered to correct their errors. What did they do? Was it enough, in your opinion? Base your blog post on your research (hyperlinking, remember, is attribution in digital journalism)

Helpful screencast by my colleague.

The photo of the actual iceberg that sunk the Titanic has been artificially colorized so that you see the red gash the Titanic left in the ice. You can't see it in the original BW photo. So, which is more accurate, the original or colorized version? What would be the best way to think about this question?

Here is a Tumblr site of resources for verifying the information you find online.

From training for multimedia journalism profs this summer. More resources than you will wrap your heads around this semester, but definitely worth a cruise through if you want to do more later.

Interesting post on Slate. Colin sent it. Thought I'd share. It's true that rushing to judgment and making errors are as old as journalism (and humanity) itself.

Some help for Major Assignment 2.