The Rocky Mountain News Web site needs a “design producer.” I thought that was a pretty interesting job title — not a designer, and not just a producer (hm, story producer, news producer … design producer) to “work with our developers and producers to build innovative tools and applications.”
Sometimes these job ads seem to be […]

Not only is this amusing animation directly related to a news story of great local interest in Detroit (the city’s mayor embroiled in scandal), but it was produced and posted in ONE DAY! Kudos to the Freep!

(Thanks to Sue B-B for the link!)
Background of the story here.

Scott Karp writes about “link journalism” and how it could have saved face for The New York Times in the recent case of using unnamed sources in a story about John McCain and a lobbyist:
… on the web, with its infinite space and connectedness, the Times could have added an important supplement to their own […]

From the Newspaper Association of America come these awards for Most Innovative Multimedia Storytelling in 2007:

24 Hours in Lawrence, Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World/The World Co.
Broken Trust, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune
A People Torn, Star Tribune, Minneapolis (see my blog post about this one)

Congratulations to Matt Waite and The St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly for a win in […]

Many parents today want their children to complete a university education. They see a bachelor’s degree as a necessity in the information economy (or, as it’s also been called, the network economy).
That certainly is true in the sense that a bachelor’s degree is a requirement for most white-collar jobs, including an entry-level job at a […]

Here’s a current job ad worth thinking about (notice it does not specify any prior experience):
News Producer, Overnight — Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Industry: Online/New Media / Job Duration: Full Time / Job Location: Arlington, Va.
Job Requirements: Washngtonpost.com, the Web site of The Washington Post, is seeking a news producer to work on the overnight shift.
Duties include:
Update and […]

With all the world watching a seemingly endless election campaign in the United States, who would turn toward Malaysia, a Southeast Asian nation with only 25 million residents?
Malaysia’s national elections (voting is scheduled for March 8 ) have much to teach us about new democracies, in my opinion. For one thing, the press (both print […]