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11 Sites Journalists Should Know

11 Sites Journalists Should Know

Posted 12 January 2010 | By Jeremy Caplan | Categories: General, News Tech Tutorials, Tutorials, Web Sites, Web Tools | 2 Comments

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 [...]

Drop.io: File Sharing for Journalists

Drop.io: File Sharing for Journalists

Posted 25 November 2009 | By Jeremy Caplan | Categories: Cloud Computing, General, News Tech Tutorials, Web Tools | 3 Comments

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

Posted 19 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

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:http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3]
Thanks Drew!

Posting embedded audio to your wordpress hosted site

Posted 19 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

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 works only with [...]

Using FTP to store your media Online

Posted 18 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

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 on “New Folder” in the Fetch [...]

Using soundslides

Posted 16 October 2007 | By Sandeep Junnarkar | Categories: News Tech Tutorials | No Comments

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 [...]