All seven nominees for the first broadband video Emmy award are presented in a lovely viewer and package from The New York Times. Nominees came from MTV, National Geographic, The New York Times (three!), and The Washington Post (two). And the winner is … Travis Fox of The Washington Post, for his work about Hurricane […]

In advance of a guest lecture about foreign correspondents and technology, I asked the students to familiarize themselves with Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. Here are the instructions I gave them:
(1) Open the menu “Show all hot zones” and look at TWO (or more) of the locations from that menu.
(2) In each one of […]

A short, sweet and right-on-the-money editorial from Steve Safran over at the Lost Remote blog says:
The job of a good press is to question power. That doesn’t mean to be negative. It means simply questioning, investigating and reporting.
… Doctors have immunity. Lawyers have immunity. They have long been recognized as contributing to the greater good […]

Our students at The Independent Florida Alligator are drinking that new media Kool-Aid! The audio could be better (sounds like they may have used a cheap microphone), but the photos (by Jason Henry) are fantastic. Production by Tim Hussin and Andrea Morales — the Alligator’s photo editors. Soundslides was used (I’m so proud of them). […]

If people link to you, more visitors will come to your site. This applies to news Web sites, blogs, business sites, and everything in between. So, how do you encourage links to your stuff?
Here are some great tips, attributed to their original sources — most of which are on Brian Clark’s list (”How to attract […]

This package about Rwandan refugees in Congo (Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo) was nominated for a FlashForward award but didn’t win. It’s my favorite of the four packages in the “Narrative” category. While the navigation can be confusing, and once in a while the audio hiccupped, overall I found this a very compelling, […]

Most-viewed blog entries here vary by who’s doing the counting.
According to Performancing (for September 2006):

Falling circulation? Let’s jack up the price

Recipes for citizen journalism

Web video streaming: Which is the best?

News21 project: Worth it or not?

What I learned from the news designers, Part 1

According to Feedburner (past 30 days):

Podcasters get together (interesting to note that the […]