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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 April 2007

How to save a newspaper

Thursday, April 26, 2007

A very fat issue of Nieman Reports came out a couple of months ago. I thought, yeah, I gotta read that … and put it off, and put it off. Well, today I started reading. You know what I mean. I have the table of contents open in Firefox. The titles are not very enticing, […]

Making sense of Adobe’s CS3 bundles

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Now that we have a confusing array from which to choose, a lot of us are trying to figure out which one is the best choice for our own needs.
JourneyEd (online shopping for students and faculty, with education pricing) has everything on sale now. Prices range from $600 for the “Design Premium” bundle of Adobe […]

Tutorials for online journalism goodness

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Over at Journalistopia, lifelong Gator Danny Sanchez invites us to check out his Tutorials category. Wow! I follow his blog regularly, but I really didn’t realize how many great tutorials he has written or linked to.
One I had completely missed: Quick HTML bar graphs with Excel, Table Tango demonstrates a very simple way to get […]

Small ways to start innovating

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

An ultra-short list of practical tips for how to get that online innovation train moving forward:
Small. Storytelling. Experiments. Collaboration. Workflow.
Better yet, Laura explained each one in a single tight paragraph.
Via Journerdism.
Technorati tags: journalism | future | online journalism

A small favor

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Please fill out my survey of this blog’s readers.
There are ONLY eight (8) questions! Come on, help me out!
Update (April 29): The survey is finished. To see the questions I asked, look here.

Are you making the most of your long tail?

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

On Saturday (the day of the week when traffic to this blog is usually at its lowest), I saw a surprising surge in visits. Turned out a particular post had been linked on Techmeme, and it being a slow day, the link sat on the Techmeme front all day.
When I went into my FeedBurner stats, […]

El País gets into the citizen-j game

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

El País of Madrid — which has one of the best newspaper Web sites in the world — has launched Yo, Periodista (I, Journalist), its own citizen journalism experiment:
Help us build ELPAIS.com. If you have witnessed any news, send it to us, and we will publish it. You can send text, photos, videos or documents […]