Tag: reporting
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Get Smart About Your Readers – Readership Institute
Rich Gordon’s hierarchy of database journalism: must-read for anyone trying to figure out where to start parsing. via Squared. Get Smart About Your Readers – Readership Institute
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Eye-Fi: How One Little Chip Will Change the Way You Share Pictures – Wired
I didn’t hear about this until I saw it on Diggnation, so forgive me if I’m late to the party, but this is a wi-fi enabled SD card for your camera. Got that? For any camera that takes an SD card. Eye-Fi: How One Little Chip Will Change the Way You Share Pictures – Wired
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Meeting story hydraulics
John Robinson, editor at the Greensboro News & Record, on stepping away from the “meeting story”: “Welcome to the world of hard choices. It’s always been this way. We don’t cover everything. We don’t even cover what we used to. Newspaper staffs are getting smaller, yet the number of meetings and events, of commissions and…
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Jailbreaking the iPhone in the name of mobile journalism – Robb Montgomery
Wow. Things like Twittergram and similar connections are impressive, but rolling that sort of functionality into a frigging iPhone button is just awesome. Foolproof after setup. via Will. Jailbreaking the iPhone in the name of mobile journalism – Robb Montgomery
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Seven notes, six links
Hypothesis: Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb. Plea: Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good…
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Obligatory Twitterquake post
So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building. That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.” Whoa. We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the…
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Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Toolkit” – Engadget
Be sure to check out the ‘Posts from the Reuters mobile journalism trial’ link to see what they produced. Nokia and Reuters develop an N95-based “Mobile Journalism Toolkit” – Engadget
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You can’t scoop yourself – The Journalism Iconoclast
“If your paper is always the first paper to have up-to-date news, people will go to that site first and more often than competitors. Why would I want to go to your competitor’s Web site that doesn’t have up-to-date news stories?” You can’t scoop yourself – The Journalism Iconoclast
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Covering Communities
Useful site to share with reporters and editors trying to understand how to cover their communities without writing meeting stories. Covering Communities