Reading your final projects

I just got finished reading the rewrites of your final projects, and I want to tell you how impressed I am. Every one of them was good; some are exceptional. I hope you’ll take some time during the break to see what your classmates did. It’s not only a great learning experience, but I think you’ll enjoy them, too.

Now that the semester is over, I hope you will keep blogging, not just with text, but with your photos, videos and maps as well. Those of you who were successful in developing a beat may find that your blogs can be a key to professional success.

As promised, here are links to your final projects. Be sure to check out the online extras — video, slideshows and Google maps.

• Adrianne Loggins: Profiles of New England journalists who write blogs for their news organizations
• Amara Grautski: “Sports Radio: Building Online Content and Finding Its Niche of the Future”
• Ami Van Wygerden: “NYT Photo Project Encourages Citizen Journalism”
• Belen Bogado: “Getting to Know a Citizen Journalist’s Universe” (a profile of Steve Garfield)
• Bobby Feingold: “Is Print Dead?” (a look at Zinio.com, a service that provides for electronic magazine delivery)
• Candice Novak: “Where Are the Women?” (a video about Women’s eNews as well as the state of women and media)
• Chaz Miller: “Playing a Numbers Game” (about online computer-assisted reporting)
• Drew Bonifant: A feature on Bleacher Report, a fan-driven Web site about sports
• Erika Carrubba: A story on WRBBsports.com, the new online home of Northeastern sports
• Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle: “The Fabric of Our Lives” (a story that’s mainly about a digital storytelling workshop in Durban, South Africa)
• Jared Molton: “The Internet Magician’s Playground” (a feature on Genii, a Web site for magicians)
• Jess Volpe: A profile of Emily Sweeney, a staff reporter, blogger and video journalist for the Boston Globe
• Julie Balise: “Food for Blog” (about TheFoodMonkey.com, a foodie blog based in Boston)
• Liz Stitt: “EcoPaparazzi Allows Creator to Continue Following Her Bliss”
• Marc Larocque: “Open Media Boston Offers Social Media as Alternative to ‘Corporate Media Model’”
• Mark Rizzo: “Confronting the Internet, or, How Old Media Are Going New”
• Matt Collette: A story on Bostonist, the local outpost of the popular Gothamist chain of blogs
• Michaela Stanelun: A profile of Adam Gaffin, co-founder and editor of Universal Hub

I hope you all have a great holiday, and that I’ll see you on campus again soon.