The Journalism Professor's One-Stop (Online) Shop

Al Tompkins understands the pressures facing both high school- and university-level journalism professors. Increasing class sizes, diminishing budgets, and simply being too busy working as a full-time reporter and teacher are just some of the difficulties they face. So the senior faculty for broadcast and online at The Poynter Institute recently launched aimfortheheart.com, an online repository complete with (almost) every tool needed to teach the craft of journalism.

“It’s just hard for these folks to find the things they need to use in their classrooms,” Tompkins said.