Many journalism educators will find this Washington Post article very useful as a condensed version of all that has happened to our field in recent years. At the end, Patricia Sullivan writes:
There’s no question that the Internet has changed the news industry in the past decade. Old media has learned that simply shoveling content from [...]

A short and sweet summary of latest Eyetrack findings from my friend Laura Ruel. Although some of this is common sense, just go and look at some news Web sites and see whether they are breaking every rule with their cluttered, distracting home page designs.
Technorati tags: photojournalism | infographics | information graphics | news design [...]

Just think about this for a minute:
I’ve learned that a journalist basically does three things: collect data, distill data, and present data… It seems to me the first piece has gotten rather trivial in many cases. Data is everywhere. We’ve never been so inundated with information as we are now. Since many news organizations are [...]

Al Tompkins, of Poynter, shares some of his current favorite examples of “great online storytelling.” The Naples (Fla.) News database of local housing sales is an excellent package, very smart — but not one I would highlight for “storytelling.” It includes a great backgrounder (Here’s why we ignored ‘over-valued’ realty story), which provides valuable insight [...]

A long time ago, I knew someone who had had a summer job in the warehouse of a trade magazine publisher. To describe how incredibly boring those magazines were, he said, “They were about things like typesetting.” His example failed with me, because when I imagined a magazine all about typesetting, I wanted to get [...]

Every community of highly skilled professionals probably has a home on the Web. The infographics people of journalism are no exception.
Thanks to Katie Ratcliffe, who runs infographics production in the Asia-Pacific for Agence France-Presse, we now have a good roundup of sites and blogs for news graphics, via The Editors Weblog. If you teach design [...]

You can still register onsite for the NPPA 60th Anniversary Summit in Tampa, Florida, this weekend. I have posted an outline of my two sessions. Handouts will be linked there as soon as they are finished.
Technorati tags: photojournalism | Flash journalism | Flash | multimedia