This is the fifth in a series of Q&As we will be running with journalism teachers who run their own blogs or websites separate from what their students are doing at school. Our fifth is Stan Zoller of Illinois who writes for ZollerOnBuffaloGrove.blogspot.com and ChicagoNow.com.

Summer is an interesting time. It gives me a chance to catch up on things. Earlier this week I was flying home and finally had time to look at the NAA  study “Teens Know What They Want From Online News: Do you?” I found the PDF in a folder I’d labeled “*******to read” that was in a “more desktop stuff” folder which was in another folder called “Desktop.” Needless to say, it was a bit buried.

However, the 15 minutes it took me to read was well worth the time.

Attachments:

File	Description	File size
NAA Study PDF	This 2009 study by the NAA looks at what teens want from online news.	1634 Kb

Here is a neat piece by Cedar Rapids Gazette columnist Mike Hlas. He's covering reaction by a Big 12 coach of what seems to be the inevitable breakup of the conference. In this post, he gives a couple paragraphs of background, but then let's Iowa State women's basketball coach Bill Fennelly tell the rest of the story through his twitter postings. It's just an interesting alternative way to tell a story and one more example of how journalists are using social media posts in their stories.

This is the first in a series of Q&As we will be running with journalism teachers who run their own blogs or websites separate from what they are doing at school. Our first site is www.teachj.wordpress.com run by Robert Courtemanche from Houston, Texas.

Moving online seems like the thing to do these days. The professional media has seen the need and high school media staffs each week proclaim their new digital presence to their readers. I think it would be safe to say it’s a place everyone wants to be – it’s just a little scary because the road is not one that many have traveled and there’s no real Google Map to get staffs from point A to point B easily.