NY Times Senior Multimedia Producer Gabriel Dance on the Interactive Graphic
Dance’s core philosophy of design is simple: Get out of the way of the content and create interactive graphics designed to keep viewers engaged.
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Drop.io: File Sharing for Journalists
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.
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Tips, Tools and Plain Talk about Journalism's Future
We journalists have always been good at sharing what we know–but we’ve never been good at sharing how we know it. That can and must change as the internet enables us to collaborate with more people doing journalism, as journalism and how we do it is constantly and quickly transformed, as we all become students and teachers of journalism.
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Event: How to Present Data on the Web
Join Gabriel Dance, senior multimedia producer at The New York Times, as he discusses how interactive graphics are developed for one of the most popular news sites in the world. (UPDATE 10/4/09: The New York Times received an Online Journalism Award on Saturday, Oct. 3, for its Interactive Graphics, besting MSNBC.com and Wired.com. The category [...]
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DNJ Links for September 18, 2009
American Public Media’s Marketplace Whiteboard videos, a super-sized jQuery slideshow tool and a review of the Canon EOS 7D.
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Google Docs for Journalists 4: How to Back Up Your Documents
Now that you’re using Docs, how do you back-up all those files you’ve stored online? Google backs up your documents on multiple servers, and you can back-up your own docs in at least 4 different ways.
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Is It Secure? Google Docs for Journalists: Part 3
In a comment on a previous post, which was an introduction to Google Docs, Jay Rosen offered a good suggestion that I address the issue of document security. Journalists of all sorts – from those who are super techie to those who rely exclusively on paper notebooks – may justifiably wonder about the safety/privacy of Google documents. I have three thoughts about this.
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How to Go Digital: Google Docs for Journalists – Part II
When you start using Web-based software, suddenly all of the material you gather is accessible online from wherever you are. If you’re used to using a Google search to find info quickly on the Web, just imagine how convenient it can be to be able to find something from within your own past reporting and writing just as easily and quickly. No more digging through old drawers trying to locate a piece of paper with a number scrawled on it. Just open up Docs and search for any word, name or date range to find anything you’re looking for.
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Google Docs for Journalists: An Introduction
Google Docs is a suite of free, browser-based software that includes easy to use word processing, spreadsheet and presentation tools akin to Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The big difference between Docs and Microsoft Office is that your Google documents are stored online, so they’re accessible from anywhere you have Internet access.
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The Digital News Journalist's Latest Tool: Google Voice
Mastering the telephone has always been “job one” for journalists. It doesn’t take long for a budding reporter to become painfully familiar with research hazards involving heavy phone use. Google’s latest project, Google Voice, helps the journalist with all of these pitfalls, and more.
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