Lauren Simonis
PBS
Contact Lauren
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Lauren:
A Rising Model for Newsrooms at the Innovation News Center at Florida
Matt Sheehan is the director of the Innovation News Center in the College of Journalism & Communications at the University of Florida. EducationShift talked with Sheehan about how the center hopes to make itself a model for existing and emerging newsrooms across the country. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: How to Do Field Reporting with Mobile Devices
On Friday, May 16, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on how to do field reporting with mobile devices. The chat will take place on Twitter at the #EdShift hashtag at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. → Read More
Students Should Tap Their Professors for Job Networking
You re sitting in the back of a giant lecture hall as a professor goes on about some theory. You re taking good notes and you like her style, but you ve never been to her office hours. And while she might remember your face, she definitely doesn t know your name. You just made a huge mistake. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: Finding Jobs and Internships
On Friday, May 2, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on tips for students to find jobs and internships and ideas for effective interviewing and networking. The chat will take place on Twitter at the #EdShift hashtag at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. → Read More
How Medill Uses ‘Searchlights and Sunglasses’ in the Classroom
Owen Youngman, Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy at Northwestern University has been using Searchlights and Sunglasses by Eric Newton as a textbook in his classroom. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: How to Hack Your Curriculum
On Friday, April 18, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on helping educators hack the curriculum with experiments. The special guests will include first-round winners of the recent Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: Students Take Over
On Friday, April 4, our biweekly #EdShift chat gets a brand new spin. The students are taking over. The chat will involve students from journalism programs across the country, focusing on what they need from their journalism education. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: How to Teach Social Media
On Friday, March 21, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on how to teach social media. The chat will take place on Twitter at the #EdShift hashtag at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. It will be moderated as usual by MediaShift’s Education Curator Katy Culver, with special guests <a href=https://twitter. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: Does a Journalism Degree Matter?
On Friday, Feb. 21, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on the question does a journalism degree matter? With that will come discussion of other sources of education and training outside standard J-schools. → Read More
#EdShift Chat: Teaching Entrepreneurship in Journalism Schools
There was a time when journalism students were trained for a job at a local newspaper, radio or TV station or magazine. Now, it s just as important for students to know how to start their own digital business, their own startup. → Read More
#EdShift Chats: Can MOOCs Boost Journalism Education?
On Friday, March 7, our bi-weekly #EdShift chat will focus on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other online efforts in journalism education. The chat will be moderated as usual by MediaShift’s Education Curator Katy Culver, with special guests Owen Youngman, Northwestern University, ... → Read More
#EdShift Chat: Tips for Journalism Educators to Get Grants for Innovation
Finding and getting grants and funding for journalism educators can be difficult -- especially in navigating all the grant requirements and making the right contacts. → Read More
Top 10 E-Book Trends of 2013: Apple Loses; Amazon Wins; Prices Drop
Click the image for the full series.Photo illustration by wildfox76 via Flickr Creative Commons.</... → Read More
#wjchat: Rebooting Journalism Schools
With changes in the field of journalism, it s important to take a look at how new professionals are learning their skills in journalism and communication schools. In early December, #wjchat focused on what journalism schools are doing right and wrong, as well as ways to improve journalism education, with special guest Eric Newton from the Knight Foundation. → Read More