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When journalists go to jail

Some Vietnamese journalists have asked my opinion about the arrest and detention of two of their own. Nguyen Viet Chien, 56, a reporter for Thanh Nien, and Nguyen Van Hai, 33, reporter for Tuoi Tre, were jailed last month, according to the Vietnam Journalism site. VietNamNet reported that the two will be in “temporary detention [...]

A real need for local news, “hyper” or not

Scott Karp wrote a kind of case study about what we all want from local news online, based on his quest for information about a big storm in his home area near Washington, D.C. This is very instructive: What he wanted to know, and how hard it was to find. His concern about power outages [...]

MVPs for March and April

Most visited posts on this blog from March 1, 2008, through May 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics: March 2008 (10,309 visitors) Why you should suck it up and learn to script What every journalism student needs to know (now) Catch-22 in journalism internships WordPress as your Web authoring tool April 2008 (11,233 visitors) Catch-22 [...]

First day with Soundslides

The journalists in the training session here in Saigon have impressed me with their enthusiasm. Have a look at this Soundslides created by Nguyen Tien Giang of the Saigon Times on Tuesday night. He recalled this photo essay by one of the newspapers reporters (yeah, not a photojournalist) and persuaded another colleague (one in my [...]

Numbers in the newsroom and in the audience

Two snips out of Howard Kurtz’s Washington Post column on May 25: … we are working harder than ever, in part because of the round-the-clock demands of the Web; Post campaign reporters are constantly writing online items for The Trail column in addition to their daily stories. So to suggest that a shrinkage of the [...]