By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for November 2006

6 great tools for news junkies

Monday, November 27, 2006

None of these require any downloads, and they work in any Web browser.
1. Technorati Mini opens a custom browser window that self-updates and lets you monitor a word, phrase or URL of your choosing. Use it on-the-fly as you keep an eye on current buzz about breaking news, or a new meme. You can keep [...]

Searching newspapers’ archives, thanks to Google

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Google’s News Archives Search can be fun even if you don’t go into the linked articles:
Example timeline 1: Viewtron
Example timeline 2: Arpanet
Example timeline 3: YouTube
Technorati tags: newspapers | search

Audience uses the tools we gave them

Sunday, November 26, 2006

“Well, uh — can’t we just start blogging back at them?”

Related book: The Long Tail
Technorati tags: journalism | online media | audiences | blogs | blogging | business

What MSNBC.com gained from the flip book

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Robert Hood, director of multimedia MSNBC.com, weighed in at length in the middle of a huge discussion at Lightstalkers about the MediaStorm / Ed Kashi / Iraqi Kurdistan “flip book.”
He says his team was asked to contribute to a story project MSNBC.com was doing about Iraqi Kurdistan.
We looked into all of our traditional sources and [...]

Citizen journalist, citizen vigilante?

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Doesn’t anyone think this is terrifying? A woman is attacked on the subway in London. I believe her. She’s right, it’s awful; it should not happen. It’s scary, and you’d think there would be some kind of protection.
That’s not what scares me, though.
She snapped a photo of one of the men who allegedly assaulted her. [...]

If only every online newspaper looked like this

Saturday, November 25, 2006

El País is the newspaper; ELPAIS.com is the fabulous, just-reinvented, marvelous home page. My God, I hope one day all newspapers will be this good.
Props to Juan Antonio Giner (now if only he would STOP USING FULL CAPS for so many things in his otherwise excellent news design blog!). Es muy difícil leer.
Technorati tags: design [...]

Multimedia journalism cornucopia

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Andrew has updated Interactive Narratives. Much nice stuff is linked there. It should keep you busy throughout the long (U.S.) holiday weekend.
He also mentioned Their Circular Life, one of those stunning Flash experiences that you won’t easily forget. It must be more than two years since I first saw it, but just reading the [...]