Demotix: The citizen-based future of photojournalism?
According to founder Turi Munthe Demotix is a “street wire” or “virtual photo agency” specializing in international breaking news coverage. For the more than 8,000 contributors to the citizen-based photo website it’s an opportunity to showcase and perhaps sell work. For the rest of us it’s the latest example of an industry in transition experimenting [...]
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The digital future of foreign reporting
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.
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11 Multimedia Sites for Journalists
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 [...]
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Another 11 Sites Journalists Should Know
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 [...]
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11 Sites Journalists Should Know
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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Arianna Huffington on Journalism: Commencement 2009
In her 13-minute commencement address to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Class of 2009, Arianna Huffington, the outspoken editor-and-chief of the Huffington Post, told the graduates that the eternal truths of journalism including the need to speak truth to power remain as important in the era of Twitter and Facebook as at any time in the past.
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Media's Fall and Rise
“Read this,” I instructed several CUNY J-School students in a recent email. “Read every word of it. He’s talking about you.” I had provided a link to David Carr’s latest Media Equation column, “The Fall and Rise of Media.”
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Crowdfunding: Anatomy and aftermath of one trash-y story
Crowdfunding, while not a tool in the technical sense, may turn out to be an indispensable business tool in the new ecosystem of journalism. While the idea of getting many people to donate small amounts of cash to fund a project is not new — charities do it, political campaigns do it — some forward-thinking journalists and entrepreneurs are starting to apply the same crowdfunding concept to the news.
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The Canon Powershot G11 point-and-shoot
If you’re looking for the cost and size advantages of a compact/point-and-shoot camera that can produce the kind of image quality that solid visual journalism requires, this is the one for you.
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Dropbox: Dead-Simple File-Sharing and Backup
Several Web sites offer – often for free – tools for managing and sharing large files (e.g. Mediafire, Megaupload, Box.net, YouSendIt, Drop.io, etc.). But, none have improved my workflow more than Dropbox.
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