The Tool: WordPress workaround for creating customizable “topical” news pages Why Use It: Build destination sub-sites for your news outlet that aren’t limited to automatically aggregating similar stories into categories WordPress, once considered mainly a tool for bloggers, has become a standby for quick-to-launch, easy-to-operate news web sites. One of the strengths of WordPress has [...]
Twitter has become a popular reporting tool that allows journalists across the world to follow the news in real time. Yet little focus is given to its use as a research tool. With its 140-character limit messages, it is more of a robust research tool than we realize. Here are just few ways that Twitter [...]
The Tool: Web-based survey builder that lets users “rank” their choices Why Use It: Great way to identify a “least worst” option instead of just a single favorite. I was recently helping some students identify the best day for an event they were planning, and suggested they use some kind of “preferential voting system,” one [...]
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 round off [...]
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.
Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted WordPress blog is a little more complicated and requires installing a plugin. If you are up to it, visit this link for the plugin. Installation instructions are here. The code you need to insert is found here. The post would also look like this: [Audio clip: view full post [...]
Here is a simple way to post audio if you are using a WordPress hosted site (such as http://fourlegs.wordpress.com). Simply add this code to your post and replace the link I have provided below with your own link. [audio http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3] You need to include a paragraph break space before and after the code above. This [...]
1. Launch Fetch. 2. In the “New Connection” window: enter “ftp.digitalstoragespace.com” into “hostname” enter “08class@digitalstoragespace.com” into username enter the password you have been given. 3. You may check “add to keychain” if you do not want repeat (2) in the future. 4. Hit “Connect” 5. You are now within a folder titled “08″ 6. Click [...]
We’ve gone over Soundslides in the Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism course. This tool is used around the world by small to mid-sized online news sites that do not have their own Flash developers creating customized templates. It is extremely simple to use and powerful–especially attractive to print journalists who today must also produce multimedia. This [...]
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