By Mindy McAdams
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Here’s something you could do to make change possible in your newsroom: Attend the Web App Summit, March 26-28, in California. Yeah, three days for $1,549. I guarantee that you’ll learn more than you would in 10 days at any assortment of journalism industry conferences or workshops.
Andrew DeVigal and Steve Duenes, of The New York [...]
Paul Conley is on a rampage with a series of posts based on the idea of digging a “fighting hole” (which many of us would call a foxhole). He’s writing about B2B journalism, but most of what he says applies equally well to daily newspaper journalism.
He’s saying employers should not offer any training in Web [...]
Just about every newspaper in North America has experienced staff cuts, buyouts or a hiring freeze. Editorial staff has been cut to extreme levels in some cases, reducing morale as well as (in many cases) hurting the quality of the product.
So it’s going to sound crazy if I suggest that newsroom staffers be given 10 [...]
They’re having floods in Indiana. The Journal and Courier is on top of the story. (I love it when the updates all have time stamps.)
I wrote three Web updates before I even got in my car to head out to the flooded lands. Before I left, we probably had a dozen updates, easy. All told, [...]
We are always struggling to teach young journalists how to interview better.
Successful interviews get people to go further than they planned to go, and rarely come from a planned list of questions, even when the questions are good ones. Interviewing does not work that way. It is a dynamic process involving two basic stages. Stage [...]
This discussion has been going on for a while (see Lucas Grindley’s original take here and his more recent reaction to Ed Wasserman’s column in the Miami Herald here) — some people find it horrifying that a journalist might get a higher (or lower) rate of pay based on how many readers he or she [...]
Thanks to a post on the News Videographer blog, I learned that Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has started a new blog of his own, Mastering Multimedia.
I’m excited, because I have long been a big admirer of The Spokesman-Review’s Video Journal, a blog where Colin and others at the newspaper display and [...]
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