Tag: Online News
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Online and print partying together
via E&P: Editors from the Washington Post and USA Today talk about “the continuous news desk” and “platform-agnostic coverage” on a panel at an Interactive Media conference. One j-school professor in the audience asked what the panelists were looking for in young journalists — should they already be focusing on multi-tasking, shooting video and the…
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Interactive Narratives: Photo Blogs & Aggregators
More newspaper photoblogs and other multimedia journalism sites… Interactive Narratives: Photo Blogs & Aggregators
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Flash Journalism
The homepage for Mindy McAdams’ Flash Journalism book. Somebody buy me a copy, okay? Flash Journalism
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Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.
MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool. What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool. Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations…
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XML.com: Dynamic News Stories
Adrian Holvaty proposes some simple tags that would code bits of useful metadata into online news stories. XML.com: Dynamic News Stories
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Serendipity on the Web
Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…
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Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
“Ironically, the same news media chiefs who fret constantly about credibility and the declining appetite for news are diving into this 24/7 news cycle. Does that make sense?” Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
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New Orleans hospital drama at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a huge 22-episode package running in print and online down at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution right now, and it takes the reader inside New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. From the introduction to the piece: To report this story, staff writer Jane O. Hansen interviewed more than 50 people over six months,…
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UC Berkeley Journalism / Event: Careers in Digital Journalism
Webcast of a lunchtime panel talk at Berkeley that I should have gone to. Lots of local online journalism gurus here. Worth a look if you have any intention of working in the online department of a Bay Area paper. (Hint: You do.) UC Berkeley Journalism / Event: Careers in Digital Journalism
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Note to newspaper companies: Keep your print layout off my screen
Hey guys, let’s make a deal: You stop trying to paste an old media model (print layout) on a new medium (e-paper, UMPC, tabletPC), and I’ll keep reading the stories I want to read, when I want to read them, either via RSS feeds from your paper, or when a blog I trust links to…