News organizations are increasingly crowd-sourcing using online survey tools like Google Forms to collect sources, data and their audiences’ experiences. Putting together a survey requires no programming or technical skills and best of all, the tools are mostly free. Presentation tools, such as Google Charts, Many Eyes and others allow you to then showcase your [...]
When community members are first asked to contribute to The Local, they’re always excited by the opportunity to see their work published on the NYTimes.com. Converting that initial enthusiasm to actual submissions, however, is a challenge. Whether we’re looking for one-offs contributions or trying to develop an ongoing relationship with someone in the community, the [...]
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism recently assumed the editorial leadership NYTimes.com’s The Local community web site, which covers the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. The plan is to build on The Times’ work, which first launched in the spring 2009, and to make it more scalable, generating greater community contributions and [...]
Join Gabriel Dance, senior multimedia producer at The New York Times, as he discusses how interactive graphics are developed for one of the most popular news sites in the world. (UPDATE 10/4/09: The New York Times received an Online Journalism Award on Saturday, Oct. 3, for its Interactive Graphics, besting MSNBC.com and Wired.com. The category [...]
See examples of live-blogging, multimedia and community involvement related to health coverage on the web.
Most news videos I find on the Website of newspaper websites or television news sites remind me of the early days of Web journalism: people took copy from the print version and shoveled it online.
Writing captions for photographs displayed on the Web has many similarities to writing captions for photographs displayed in a newspaper–except we can add a lot more information.
Traditional newspaper headline can be brilliant: literary, pithy and clever. Headline writers and editors love the creative play on words! Unfortunely, search engines don’t get the humor and could care less about the style. But why give a damn anyways about search engines??
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