Photo by Mat Boyle

My name is Mark Berkey-Gerard. I teach online and multimedia journalism courses at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Campfire Journalism is a place to flesh out ideas about interactive storytelling and journalism education. The title comes from the writings of educator James Carey, who thought of journalism as a kind of collective campfire storytelling that begins in conversation.

“Conversation not only forms opinions, it forms memory,” Carey wrote. “We remember best the things that we say, the things the we say in response to someone else with whom we are engaged. Talk is the surest guide to remembering and knowing what we think.”

Blog header photo via Pete Liedtke on Flickr

Campfire Journalism by Mark Berkey-Gerard is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.