By Mindy McAdams
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Beet.TV takes us on a tour of the video production facilities inside the the WSJ.com newsroom. Lots of gear.
In the same post, there’s also a video interview with WSJ.com managing editor Bill Grueskin, in which he explains the Journal’s approach to expanding video and teaching video reporting skills to reporters.
Found via Lost Remote.
Technorati tags: video [...]
Among sites with more than 2 million page views per month:
Being A Black Man (washingtonpost.com) Excellent, humongous. Probably the biggest Web package ever made. But of immense journalistic value. I’m not complaining.
The Lifeline (latimes.com)
A Sister’s Gift (Rocky Mountain News) Well done, but long.
(HM) The Vanishing Class (latimes.com) Too many pieces and too disconnected for me [...]
I found the winners from the big sites disappointing.
News, large affiliated sites
On the Border, ‘There’s Always a Hole’ (washingtonpost.com)I don’t like the distracting wind noise in the audio. I was impressed by a desert photo and the last two pictures, which made me think about an aspect of this familiar story (illegal crossings at the [...]
A partial list of links is online now. Don’t get too excited — it’s only galleries so far.
I encourage you to compare the functionality of these two gallery interfaces:
The Malacca Strait, from Time Asia
China’s Great Divider of the Sexes: Poverty (washingtonpost.com)
Do you find one of these two affords a much better experience for you to [...]
Although Malaysia is a small country (about 26.6 million people, or less than 10 percent the population of the U.S.), its press and broadcast policies are worthy of study. Take the recent government edict issued to a dozen mainstream newspapers and five television stations telling them to ignore any and all online information that might [...]
“Citizen feedback made me realize a few things about journalism in River Falls that others may want to know,” writes Debbie Griffin, staff writer at the River Falls (Wisc.) Journal.
She goes on to list 10 of those things, and they make good food for thought. My favorite:
As a community paper, we cover local, local, local [...]
Danny Sanchez explains it all to us, based on various sources and Google’s own patent application for “ranking blog documents.” (My mind reels when I think about applying for a patent on algorithms!)
Danny’s post is perfect because it neatly summarizes the how and why, then just points us to the compete original sources.
And if [...]
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