By Mindy McAdams
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So you have not started blogging yet, but now, you want to. Good for you!
Journalism educators: Would you like to add blogging to your classes? Don’t waste time talking to the IT department. Just do it! Here’s how:
Go to WordPress.com.
Click the big green blue button (sign up and create a new blog).
Look at your Dashboard [...]
You may know Geoffrey Hiller’s name — he’s a photojournalist and multimedia producer who has worked all over the world (see his portfolio). His photography projects are beautiful and moving, but I also admire his dedication to learning the new tools, including the nasty stuff such as XHTML and CSS. In my mind, he’s the [...]
I came across a graphic showing hospital death rates in the United States (from USA Today), and I’d like to ask you to open it up and — as online folks like to say — play with it for a little while. Below are two screen captures (detail) to pique your interest, and below them, [...]
After watching El País cover a large-scale tragedy thoroughly, tirelessly, with courage and restraint, I dipped into my RSS reader and found Greg Linch’s post at TNTJ ( “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists”). If you’re in the mood for inspiration, for something to make you stop sighing and crying about the current state of journalism, TNTJ [...]
Follow how a great online news organization follows a big breaking story, at El País.
Here is an early infographic:
The plane crashed about six hours ago, at 2:45 p.m. local time (GMT +2), while taking off at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
Update (6:40 p.m. EDT): The updated animated graphic makes good use of satellite images.
Update (10:45 p.m. EDT): [...]
I found this on a lawyer’s blog:
Unfortunately, for new media companies … and traditional main stream media companies, graduating journalism students are woefully unprepared for the real world. A world where online investigative reporting via blogging and the effective use of RSS, citizen journalism, and social media are as, if not more, important than print. [...]
I’m not a data expert like journalists Adrian Holovaty, Matt Waite and Derek Willis (to name only a few), but I deeply appreciate the work they do. I see a great potential for a better-informed public — if journalism organizations could make certain kinds of large data sets easier to understand.
I’ve been watching a variety [...]
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