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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the nice things about Google’s Web-based software is that new features keep popping up even if you’re not paying a cent. This week the big news was Google Buzz. More on that once the dust settles. Meanwhile, I’ve recently been testing three new Google Docs features. First, Docs now lets you upload, store [...]
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 round off [...]
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