At the beginning of February, I began a job at Sports Illustrated’s website SI.com as part of their new video team. I chalk this up to a small miracle (and a possible mistake in HR), but the people here at Digital News Journalist don’t seem to buy into my aberration theory. They asked me to [...]
Visualizing data often makes good stories. I wondered how stories themselves could provide data for visualizations. You often hear of the ideal graph of story structure–the classic three-part profile with an introduction to the conflict leading to a climax, and ending with the resolution. This structure would be represented by a slow-rising hill ending [...]
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 [...]
According to founder Turi Munthe Demotix is a “street wire” or “virtual photo agency” specializing in international breaking news coverage. For the more than 8,000 contributors to the citizen-based photo website it’s an opportunity to showcase and perhaps sell work. For the rest of us it’s the latest example of an industry in transition experimenting [...]
Boil journalism down and you’re left with three stages: researching/reporting, writing/creating, and polishing/presenting. Thus the organization of these 33 essential sites for journalists, originally assembled for a three-part January Academy workshop at CUNY’s J-School. The first group of sites (1-11) focused on finding, managing and organizing info. The second group of sites (12-22) was all [...]
Publishing stories, polling thousands of people and building networks once required vast resources and a large, skilled team. Now any journalist with some basic Web tools can quickly do all of those things, reaching a global audience with little more than a laptop.
The key is understanding the available tools. My previous post listed the [...]
The list-making season gave us Vadim Lavrusik’s smart 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist and John Thompson’s concise Ten Things Every Journalist Should Know in 2010. Poynter posted a lively list of 100 Things Journalists Should Never Do, and Adam Westbrook added a nice set of 10 Resolutions for Journalists in 2010. To [...]
In her 13-minute commencement address to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Class of 2009, Arianna Huffington, the outspoken editor-and-chief of the Huffington Post, told the graduates that the eternal truths of journalism including the need to speak truth to power remain as important in the era of Twitter and Facebook as at any time in the past.
“Read this,” I instructed several CUNY J-School students in a recent email. “Read every word of it. He’s talking about you.” I had provided a link to David Carr’s latest Media Equation column, “The Fall and Rise of Media.”
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.