Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University

The Graduate Seminar: Journalists on Journalism
The Graduate Seminar (Comm 291) provides a discussion forum for students and working journalists to present and exchange views on the most current and emerging trends, issues, and practices in the communications industry. Professional journalists and news experts are frequently invited as guests to share their expertise and practical insights relevant to the challenges impacting the rapidly changing media landscape. Student reporters produce podcasts and videos of these dynamic exchanges.

Silicon Valley Pulse
A news and multimedia project about Silicon Valley communities produced by students in the Public Issues Reporting (Comm 273) and Multimedia Storytelling (Comm 275) classes.

Social Media Classroom
Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and learners with an integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools. The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos.

Digital Media Entrepreneurship
DME (Comm 240) pushes the envelope and examines entrepreneurial nature of the power shift in the news business. What does it mean for journalists, media practitioners, entrepreneurs and technologists? Students work in small, interdisciplinary teams to conceptualize, prototype and launch sustainable digital media ventures.

Uncovering the Dark Side
The Human Rights Journalism course (Comm 277K) launched a wiki project to explore the role of journalists in exposing human rights abuses: Uncovering the Dark Side: Human Rights Reporting from El Salvador to the Bush Administration