Tag: reporting
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Print Media Demise, Cont. – Crunch Notes
How to blog: “When I write, I write to learn more than I write to teach. I am not preaching to the masses, I am inviting them to have a conversation with me, where I get to set the topic and have the first word. We go from there.” Print Media Demise, Cont. – Crunch…
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Dilbert – Feb. 22, 2007
“No, I expect you to publish my press release and act like you wrote it.” Dilbert – Feb. 22, 2007
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Caught in a breaker….. « VideoJournalism
Cyndy Green on how to cover breaking news as a video journalist: “Breakers are not for amateurs. Period. Keep your distance and use a tripod if you have any doubts. That fire can outrace you and the fumes from the toxic leak can kill you.” Caught in a breaker….. « VideoJournalism
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NowPublic and AP form partnership » mathewingram.com/media
AP hooks up with a citizen journalism aggregator. Breaking news coverage is going to start changing rapidly, and editing and dispersing credible citizen reports is going to become part of a wire editor’s job. NowPublic and AP form partnership » mathewingram.com/media
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Poynter Online – Telling Stories in Triplicate: Firefighter Deaths in Text, Online and on the Air
“Seriously, I think the TV practice of only going after sure stories has infected newspapers. Instead of editors listening to reporters — asking them what’s going on, editors are starting their day with a cup of coffee and Al’s Morning Meeting, and givin Poynter Online – Telling Stories in Triplicate: Firefighter Deaths in Text, Online…
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Why wouldn’t a journalist leave his job at the newspaper for the online newspaper?
Derek Willis, who blogs at The Scoop about investigative and computer-assisted reporting, announces his move from The Washington Post to… …washingtonpost.com. The online operation of the paper happens across the river from the newsroom, with a different set of employees and editors, and Derek has taken the step of packing up his skills and crossing…
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Using RSS to track the politicians you cover
Megan Taylor, an online journalism student at the University of Florida*, has been reviewing RSS feeds from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post this week. She points out a feature I hadn’t seen yet in the Post’s Congressional voting database: RSS feeds on every member of Congress full of their votes. (Thanks…
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Print reporters, homeless people and video | mattwaite.com
Matt Waite points to a P&S video shot by a homeless woman. If she can do it… Print reporters, homeless people and video | mattwaite.com
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Do your reporters have OCD or ADD?
From Jeff Jarvis’s notes on the something Arianna Huffington said during a discussion at Davos: She said that bloggers have obsessive-compulsive disorder while reporters (or more likely, their editors) have attention deficit disorder. I think it depends on the reporter, or the editor, or the town, or the size of the news hole. But all…