Guest Speaking at a Journalism Class
In two weeks, I’ll be a guest speaker in a journalism class taught by a coworker. The presentation I gave last year is still on my Web site. (Please don’t laugh too hard.) I introduce the budding journalists to a variety of sources they can use for their articles, like people, archives, business sources, public records, databases, and teach them some skills for using the Internet and evaluating information. I also explain to them why they’re stuck with me as a guest speaker: news librarians can be a lot of help.
If you were a journalist taking an introductory course and had to sit through a lecture by a news librarian (what’s a news librarian anyway and why do I have to listen to one?), what would you want to hear? Hey news librarians: what’s the most important thing I can tell these future reporters?
(Gosh, I guess I need to add something about blogs and RSS feeds …)
Addendum 2/11: Skip class. The presentation is on my Web site.
