Archive for November, 2009
NY Times Senior Multimedia Producer Gabriel Dance on the Interactive Graphic

NY Times Senior Multimedia Producer Gabriel Dance on the Interactive Graphic

Posted 30 November 2009 | By | Categories: Events, Multimedia Storytelling, Video, Web Tools | No Comments

Dance’s core philosophy of design is simple: Get out of the way of the content and create interactive graphics designed to keep viewers engaged.

Drop.io: File Sharing for Journalists

Drop.io: File Sharing for Journalists

Posted 25 November 2009 | By | Categories: Cloud Computing, General, News Tech Tutorials, Web Tools | 15 Comments

Tech writeups often focus on the big guns: Apple, Google and Microsoft. But lots of little players offer great tools for journalists. One such small fry is Brooklyn-based Drop.io. The site offers a terrific solution for journalism collaboration.

Drop.io lets you set up free digital drop boxes – as many as you want – where you can share photos, documents, PDFs, videos, audio files and links with colleagues.

Tips, Tools and Plain Talk about Journalism's Future

Tips, Tools and Plain Talk about Journalism's Future

Posted 24 November 2009 | By | Categories: General | No Comments

We journalists have always been good at sharing what we know–but we’ve never been good at sharing how we know it. That can and must change as the internet enables us to collaborate with more people doing journalism, as journalism and how we do it is constantly and quickly transformed, as we all become students and teachers of journalism.