Posts filed under “new media journalism”
Every newspaper should pay attention to EveryBlock
EveryBlock is ChicagoCrime.org on steroids, and it is officially here to change the face of journalism forever. EveryBlock strives to put data into the hands of citizens down to the block level. It strives to give users a much better portrait of the world around them. From the introductory blog post at EveryBlock: For a [...]
If Time and Slate can use Twitter, so can you
Time, Slate and others have begun using Twitter to post rapid-fire updates from the campaign trail and at primaries and caucuses. And if they can do it, why can’t you? You can. Twitter is easy. Signing up takes seconds. All you have to know how to do is type 140 characters or less and hit [...]
You still can’t teach culture
A lot of people disagree with me, but I’ll say it again: you can’t teach culture. Sure, you can learn culture, but it cannot be taught. Learning culture is an affirmative step, it’s something an interested person does because he or she wants to. Being taught something is a passive step. Someone is teaching you [...]
Final project at online storytelling seminar
I did my Poynter project on a no kill animal shelter in St. Petersburg. Now, the projects that most of us did probably would have been handled differently in a real-world situation. I spent a few hours at the shelter, but in real life, I would have spent more time. I would have called ahead [...]
Thumbs up for Online Storytelling seminar at Poynter
I can now officially recommend the Online Storytelling With Audio & Images seminar at Poynter. Creating an audio slideshow is easy. Creating a great audio slideshow is hard. This seminar can help show you how to make the latter. The seminar had many audio slideshow neophytes but also people who had some experience with audio [...]
More thoughts on Poynter
Multimedia journalism is one of those funny things in life. Most of the people producing it weren’t originally multimedia — they were monomedia. If you’re a photographer you just add some audio skills and all the sudden you have multimedia. Right? The unique problem of creating audio slideshows is often people work on them by [...]
Offering bonuses for new media training
Our new executive editor and I discussed the idea that maybe we should give employees bonuses if they go through new media training. The idea is that we don’t want to mandate (at least not yet) that people learn new media skills. Instead, we want to encourage people. Basically, it would work something like this: [...]
Give your bloggers the tools to succeed
Blogging is an important tool for newspapers and journalists when done right. Blogs can cover stories and beats from new and exciting angles that regular printed stories cannot. Blogs can provide rapid-fire updates and, most importantly, a conversation. But bloggers can only be as good as the tools they are given to succeed with. Most [...]
New Year’s resolution: Learn something new in 2008
Whether you are a new media maven or an ink-stained wretch, you should make it your mission to learn something new this year. For most journalists — young or old — it’s a good time to finally learn a skill that will translate to the new millennium. Solid reporting skills and a command of the [...]
The LA Times (and many others) still don’t get it
David Lazarus has a new, nonsensical column in the Los Angeles Times about how not charging for content will “cost journalism dearly.” I don’t pretend to understand all the minutiae of the writers strike, but I do know this much: Hollywood scribes want to be compensated fairly when their work is accessed on the Internet, [...]