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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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