Digital News Journalist

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 [...]

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 was [...]

See examples of live-blogging, multimedia and community involvement related to health coverage on the web.

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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??

Instructions for transferring video, audio and photo files
1. Visit http://www.mediafire.com
2. Click on “Create a Free Account” on the upper right hand corner if this is your first time using the site. You only need an email address to start a free account.

3. If you already have an free account, click on “Login” in the upper [...]

Audio for the Web does not mean taking a radio piece, uploading it to the Web and sticking a podcast label besides it. Here are some examples of how to use audio on the Web:
NYT: Lasorda Reflects on Dodgertown
Lives in Focus: Vietnam veteran’s Posttraumatic Stress Disorder rips family apart
MSNBC: Part 3: Venturing ‘outside the wire’ [...]