Tag: reporting
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Rodriguez: Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos – San Jose Mercury News
“As the sun dips lower and the Pacific wind blows in, Reynaldo Pimentel rolls La Perla onto the grainy streets of East Salinas, and into a spicy battle.” Rodriguez: Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos – San Jose Mercury News
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Witness to a Shooting | New West Network
Powerful first-person stuff that happens when a reporter is a witness. Hard to write that inverted pyramid bit when you’ve been talking the shooter into helping put pressure on the victim’s wounds. via Travis S. Witness to a Shooting | New West Network
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Fair Game – Covering a small, temporary city – Gangrey.com
Links to a bunch of stories on a county fair by one St. Petersburg Times reporter. Fair Game – Covering a small, temporary city – Gangrey.com
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A last word on bees and mobile phones: “we didn’t say that,” researchers say (updated) from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
BREAKING NEWS: Cell phones are not what’s driving the bees away. In a related story, so long, and thanks for all the fish. A last word on bees and mobile phones: “we didn’t say that,” researchers say (updated) from Guardian Unlimited: Technology
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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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Virginia Tech
I don’t think there is going to be a Why in this story. There’s certainly a What Happened, and as journalists, that’s our first job. The remaining details will fill themselves in over time, but the Why will probably never come. Everyone will blame what they want to blame — no, what it is convenient…
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DigiDave: The Networked Journalist
New Assignment editor David Cohn with some notes on the basics of networked journalism: “1. Set up shop… 2. Outreach.” DigiDave: The Networked Journalist
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Profiling a Transgendered Life: Q&A with a Features Award Winner – Poynter Online
Great notes on getting sensitive people to share a sensitive story. via Gangrey Profiling a Transgendered Life: Q&A with a Features Award Winner – Poynter Online