Archives: Future of News

Journalism professor and digital media leader Ryan Thornburg shares insights from his 25 years in newsrooms and classrooms.

• 2017 Graduation Speech to UNC Department of Statistics and Operations ResearchMay 14, 2017
• Survey: Is N.C’s Born-Digital News Legacy Being Sent Down the Memory Hole?March 25, 2015
• Email Newsletter Success MetricsDecember 9, 2014
• How to Write a Job Description for Newsroom ProgrammersOctober 28, 2014
• Ben Bradlee interview from 2005October 21, 2014
• Localizing the NYT Data Viz on Police Racial DisparitySeptember 7, 2014
• Tar Heel Talks: Open-NC.org Helping Democratize Data Driven JournalismAugust 29, 2014
• Why ‘Robot Reporters’ Are a Good ThingJuly 2, 2014
• Video: Saving Community Journalism Book LaunchMay 8, 2014
• How to Cover Live Events: Create an ExperienceNovember 10, 2013
• Correct Audience Numbers for The Columbia TribuneAugust 1, 2013
• Data Journalism Class Exercise (Or, Teaching Critical Thinking)July 17, 2013
• How it’s going to go down tonight. Maybe.November 6, 2012
• Storify Tips for JournalistsOctober 16, 2012
• What Makes a Good Twitter Bio for Journalists?September 12, 2012
• Linking and the Pussy Riot StoryAugust 17, 2012
• How to subscribe on Facebook? What does Acquaintance mean?July 27, 2012
• Installing Python: Quick Tutorial for Journalism StudentsMay 14, 2012
• The Guardian and Social ReaderApril 5, 2012
• Should I Use Twitter Before My Story Is Posted?January 10, 2012
• The 7 Key Presentation Elements of a News StorySeptember 11, 2011
• [Updated:] If you give a pig a Python …September 6, 2011
• Online Ads Aren’t Annoying EnoughSeptember 1, 2011
• Bracken’s right: Print IS the new vinylAugust 19, 2011
• OpenBlock Setup/Matintenance CostsAugust 5, 2011
• Annotating the NewsJuly 22, 2011
• Open Block Rural, a 2011 Knight News Challenge winnerJune 23, 2011
• How to do article comments, make UI decisions. Firefox style.June 1, 2011
• Sohaib Athar wasn’t a journalism major, and neither are youMay 9, 2011
• ‘Fake’ MLK quote small hint at pernicious popularity of liesMay 3, 2011
• “Bringing OpenBlock to Rural America” is a Knight News Challenge FinalistApril 5, 2011
• Social Media and News Judgment in the ClassroomMarch 18, 2011
• Top 10 Best Things About David BroderMarch 9, 2011
• The Non-Linear Inverted PyramidFebruary 25, 2011
• FAQs As Online Newswriting ExerciseFebruary 23, 2011
• Journalistic Thinking and Intro NewswritingFebruary 15, 2011
• Knight News Challenge Proposal: Crowdsourcing Data to Bring OpenBlock to Rural AmericaJanuary 25, 2011
• Journalism at Universities: Research Should Lead, a Journ.D. Would Raise the AnteJanuary 21, 2011
• Our Op-Ed on Pro-Am Collaboration in N.C. NewsDecember 12, 2010
• Breaking News Emails: An Under-Appreciated ArtDecember 2, 2010
• Sample Syllabus: Producing Online NewsNovember 19, 2010
• Copyediting and Computer CodeNovember 10, 2010
• Article Comments Are Alienated ExperienceNovember 8, 2010
• Audience Engagement Starts With Audience TrackingNovember 5, 2010
• Lessons From ONA ’10: What It Takes, Part 2November 3, 2010
• Lessons From ONA ’10: What It Takes, Part 1November 1, 2010
• The List: Quotes and Notes From TBD.com at ONA ’10October 30, 2010
• Job Post: OpenBlock, Django and Community NewspapersOctober 29, 2010
• Sex With Me and Porn on YouTubeOctober 29, 2010
• Triangle’s Media Ecosystem Needs Tributaries and MainstreamOctober 14, 2010
• Example of Corrections in an N&O Sports BlogOctober 12, 2010
• Technology ≠ Relevance, Age ≠ FreshnessOctober 11, 2010
• Twitter Fundraising: Lessons I LearnedOctober 4, 2010
• Journalistic Brainstorming: What Don’t We KnowAugust 25, 2010
• How to Teach ‘Multitasking’ to Journalism StudentsAugust 25, 2010
• JOMC 491 Class CalendarAugust 20, 2010
• Places, Everyone! (Daily Filter)August 19, 2010
• Triple Filtered? That’s Smirnoff Ice. This Is Only a Double Filter.August 18, 2010
• I Filter, You Summarize?August 17, 2010
• Welcome to JOMC 491: Public Affairs Reporting for New MediaAugust 6, 2010
• Convergence in the Classroom, Metamorphosis in the NewsroomAugust 5, 2010
• Tip Sheet: Curating Links in News StoriesJune 28, 2010
• Tip Sheet for News BloggersJune 21, 2010
• The Web: Not Just Another News ChannelJune 15, 2010
• What’s the Demand for Downballot News?May 5, 2010
• Future Journalists’ Take on the Future of NewsMay 3, 2010
• Reporting for OnlineMarch 29, 2010
• The Credit Economy?January 26, 2010
• Fertile Failure: Live Blogging Class DiscussionJanuary 14, 2010
• A Lab for ‘The Reconstruction of American Journalism’January 13, 2010
• News Organizations Should Not Be OnlineJanuary 12, 2010
• Examples of UNC’s Online Student JournalismJanuary 8, 2010
• Predictions for the Decade? Nano Journalism?January 3, 2010
• Citizen Journalism, Public Health Stories and Ooze NewsDecember 17, 2009
• Vote: Online Journalism Textbook TitleDecember 16, 2009
• 18-24 Year Olds: It’s Their Problem to SolveNovember 6, 2009
• Professional Journalists, Just In Case You Ever Need OneNovember 2, 2009
• Fertile Failure & the Lessons of HistoryOctober 30, 2009
• U2’s Bono Sings the Battle Cry for Online NewsJune 25, 2009
• Rerun Posts: Who Drives the Vision? Who Takes the Risk?June 16, 2009
• J-Schools: Breeding Ground for Fertile FailureJune 15, 2009
• The One Tool Your Newsroom Needs Right Now: A Failure FormJune 10, 2009
• Innovation Isn’t EnoughJune 9, 2009
• We All Live in Tiananmen TodayJune 4, 2009
• Newspaper Corrections: Sources Now Share the ObligationJune 1, 2009
• Reflection: The Secret to Teaching Journalism to Digital NativesMay 24, 2009
• Notes From a SemesterMay 6, 2009
• Facebook Politics: Hidden in Plain SightApril 29, 2009
• Advice to Future Magazine EditorsApril 16, 2009
• New Book: Reaching Audiences, 5th EditionApril 8, 2009
• NCAA Basketball, the Tar Heel, and Citizen MediaApril 6, 2009
• Does the WSJ’s Online Business Strategy Work for Local News?April 3, 2009
• Survey of Online Journalists: They’re Young, White CopyeditorsApril 2, 2009
• Innovative Student Journalism in the WorksMarch 25, 2009
• Corrected: How Many Online Journalists in the U.S.?March 16, 2009
• Stuck in the Middle With News: When Professors Report and Technologists Aggregate, What’s Left for Journalists?March 10, 2009
• Spelling, Grammar and Domain Name RegistrationMarch 4, 2009
• Social Media and User Generated Content for JournalistsMarch 3, 2009
• FAQs on North Carolina’s Dropout RateMarch 2, 2009
• When Everyone’s a Publisher, Who Will ‘Convene’ The Public?February 22, 2009