Tag: Online News
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Just the FAQs, please
Jeff Jarvis on the Local Challenge: “The biggest challenge facing local news organizations today is figuring out how they can gather more and produce less. That is, how can they help other people produce, so the news organizations have something worth gathering?” Gather more and produce less, indeed. It’s hard for lifelong newsroom types to…
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A story that didn’t fit in the paper
I was skimming Mark Glaser’s Jennifer Woodard Maderazo’s round-up of online mappety map goodness at MediaShift a minute ago when I saw a link to the LA Times crime blog Homicide Report and remembered that it was one I wanted to check in on as a reference point for something we’re taking about brewing up…
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Flickr Pro and the freemium business model for newspapers
Given the recent developments around our house and the logical uptick in uploading to Flickr, I went ahead and took the $24.95/yr plunge. What I get for my money: Unlimited uploading, unlimited image storage, unlimited bundling and feeding of images, and all the old stuff that had been pushed out of my top 200 by…
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Find a way, any way, to cover breaking news
Howard Owens spent his Saturday migrating a small weekly newspaper site from one content management system to another. On a Saturday? Why? Because the town the paper covers was the one in Kansas that was almost completely destroyed by tornadoes. It’s called Greensburg and the paper is the Kiowa County Signal. Along with most of…
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Another wonderful West Coast event I’m regretfully unable to attend – but you should
I promise, at some point next Fall, I will emerge from the land of the bisy backsons and start showing up for some of the really cool conferences and summits and conventions that the cool kids put together. But for now, I’ll continue learning (and schmoozing) vicariously through those of you lucky enough to make…
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Online Journalism Awards: 2007 Online Journalism Awards – Rules
ONA awards rules. Online Journalism Awards: 2007 Online Journalism Awards – Rules
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What’s your online newsroom’s emergency plan?
Roanoke has been doing everything right online on the Virginia Tech story. Breaking news, multimedia, everything at once, plus, the one thing most of us never think too much about, keeping the servers running. Here’s how they did it. I hate to ask this question, but what’s your online emergency plan in the event of…
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Maps and stories – Simon Waldman
“The current frenzy with mash-ups has set everyone off mapping everything to everything. It’s almost always quite smart – but does it actually help? And does it tell a story any better?” thx Mark. Maps and stories – Simon Waldman
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Students launch kids’ news website – Online Journalism Blog
Looks like a good j-school capstone course where students produce a news site, complete with blogs, podcasts, and forums, plus a print(?) magazine that goes deeper. Students launch kids’ news website – Online Journalism Blog