The incredible people you meet

I spoke with a lovely journalist from the U.K., Jemima Kiss, who operates a blog at jemimakiss.com. I could use a hundred students like her. She is young, intelligent and doing amazing things on the Internet.

Her site is beautiful. As an artist, her sensibilities come through in an amazing way. I particularly like the juxtaposition of her handwriting against the type, along with the very sophisticated colour scheme.

Her journalistic sensibility is also very different. The photographs, shot on interesting angles, represents how the web can be such an interesting place rather than the stuff designs associated with traditional media.

I encouraged her to try multimedia presentations in her journalism, not just using hyperlinks, text and graphics, but also expand into audio and video, as storytelling tools

She is a journalist for paidContent, writing from overseas. It must be challenging to work virtually, but we teach students that this is the new creative model used by companies based on the web.

It is energizing to see such creative, unique talent being used to stretch journalism.