News Flash — The blogging class scheduled for January 21st, this coming Saturday, has been postponed until Saturday, March 25. Our apologies for the late notice to all who signed up, and I hope my email reached you earlier.
We look forward to seeing you in March.
Tom has assembled a first rate group of instructors with experience in journalism, commerce, media, technology, and of course blogging. All of them are active bloggers. The instructors include:
Tom is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. His blog, MiniMediaGuy, explores the business of new media. Tom has a Masters Degree in journalism from Columbia University. He is the former owner of a typesetting and publishing company, and founded a monthly newsmagazine. He has previously taught feature writing for UC Extension and was a journalism instructor at College of the Redwoods.
Tim is a Berkeley software executive and entrepreneur with 15 years’ experience in startups, turning technologies into products that improve people’s lives. He is also a passionate writer on topics ranging from politics and public health to technology. A blogger since 2001, Tim was the founding editor of the award-winning SARS Watch Org medical blog. He also writes The Berkeley Blog and The Midnight Blog, and is a contributor to Bayosphere, the Beast Blog, and Techdirt.
Lisa is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and a blogger (Legal Blog Watch, Surfette) whose accomplishments include helping launch the BlogHer conference. She was editor-in-chief for the original Women.com Networks, the award-winning Web portal that became a top 30 Web site with 25 million unique visitors. She has developed Web coverage with Hearst and Rodale magazines, Gallup, Bloomberg, ABC’s Good Morning America, E! Television/Online and HBO’s Sex and the City. Lisa blogged the Democratic National Convention for the Los Angeles Times and regularly contributed to Jay Rosen’s Pressthink blog.
J.D. is one of the world’s leading authorities on citizens media and the personal media revolution, and a frequent speaker at technology and media conferences. A former editor for the Sacramento Bee, J.D. is the co-founder and executive director of Ourmedia.org, a cutting-edge citizen journalism site. His new book about the personal media revolution, Darknet: Hollywood’s War Against the Digital Generation, has won critical acclaim from online luminaries such as Stanford law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig.
Nothing!. So I have set up a blog for the class, and as the day for the class approaches, we will fill it up with content. During class we may add more content to it, and we will update it after class with ideas, tools, and suggestions from the class.
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