Steve Safran of Lost Remote wrote a really excellent list of six straight-to-the-point lessons for online journalists to learn before their city gets flooded — based on his experience in Boston last week. For example: Of course, the amount of video crashed our email. LESSON THREE: Prepare your IT staff for this and have a [...]
This has been much covered already (see the Daily Koz, for example), but for the record, here is the News.com report from May 26. The appeals court pointedly took issue with Apple’s argument that the Web sites were not legitimate journalistic enterprises. Apple had claimed that the sites were engaged not in “legitimate journalism or [...]
From the New York Times obit for this most readable communication theorist: Dr. Carey shunned the increasingly abstruse, highly mathematical theoretical work at the frontiers of his field, preferring instead to focus on underlying values. He drew from anthropology and sociology, James Joyce and Boston Red Sox lore, to explore the cultural dimensions of journalism [...]
Our students are fabulous. Check out the profiles of eight local bands photographed and interviewed on location in Orlando by Alligator staffers (pop-up window opens from the link at right, “Gainesville heard at FMF”). For something completely different, see what an intern from UF created for the St. Pete Times with hard news on deadline [...]
Bespoke tailoring is reserved for the wealthy — or those who travel to Hong Kong — but bespoke journalism may be the wave of the future. To see what I mean, check out Circle of Blue. Circle of Blue is a pragmatic, creative, journalism-based project dedicated to addressing the global freshwater crisis … [and] a [...]
John Caserta sent this link to a site he designed (as part of a team) for The New York Times. It’s a really nice example of how to visually represent data with a back-end application that updates the numbers as needed. Companies within a selected market sector are represented by dots. The bigger the dot, [...]
For all you journalism educators struggling to keep up with what’s new in technology — if you have not caught up with Web standards, here’s a possible starting place for you: The Web Standards Project formed an Education Task Force in 2005 “to work directly with institutions of higher education to help raise awareness of [...]