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 [...]
Qik (pronounced ‘quick’) is a social network video service that allows users to record, upload and live-stream video from a mobile phone to the web through a mobile app. The service makes it remarkably easy to collect and post video at breaking news or scheduled events. The Qik app uses a phone’s built-in still camera [...]
‘Journalism in the Age of Visualization,’ produced by Geoff McGhee as part of his 2009-2010 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, is a must-see for journalists interested in data visualization and visual journalism more broadly. The seven-part video – an hour in total – along with the rich assortment of examples, resources and [...]
In the multimedia world work flow might be defined simply as an organized, step-by-step system for getting a job done either by an individual or by a team. Good work flow is characterized by an almost mechanized efficiency throughout a project and consistency of method from one project to the next. With digital photography, especially [...]
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 with [...]
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 [...]
Most of so-called mainstream media has sharply reduced or outright eliminated its foreign newsgathering operations in the past five years. But in the supposed ashes of the crash burning of foreign reporting some see a bright future.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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