From the Online News Association conference: If academics want to play a leading role in “research and development” for the news industry, he [Paul Volpe, the deputy politics editor at washingtonpost.com] said we needed to be the ones to identify market needs and build the solutions. Report from Ryan Thornburg.
One of the more inspiring stories of the intermediate stage of online journalism takes place in the Nevada desert. At the beginning of 2008, almost no one had ever heard of the Las Vegas Sun. “We had about six weeks to build the site after we had the staff in place,” said Tyson Evans, new [...]
I’m at the annual Online News Association conference. Here’s the schedule of events. I hope to post some details about the “Playing the News” pre-convention session I’m in right now, but not yet.
The annual winners of the Society of News Design multimedia design competition include only two Gold awards, and both went to The New York Times. I missed this one, explaining an accident in New York City. I really like how it uses a photograph combined with animation to show what happened, and it uses that [...]
Last fall I blogged about the choice between a MiniDV video camera and the new tapeless models (Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD). The AVCHD format poses some challenges if you are trying to work with older video editing software and/or older computers. However, the prospect of going tapeless (and having faster file [...]
I’m liking this blog by Penn State journalism student Katharine Lackey: Beyond Print: Looking Into the Prism. Yesterday’s post springboards off a blog post at the MediaShift site in which a journalism student at NYU discusses the general cluelessness of many others in her course called “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers).” I don’t mean to [...]
I can’t get Sarah Palin’s gibes about “community organizer” out of my mind. I felt somewhat sick at how raucously the big crowd laughed at the phrase every time she said it. What kind of people are these, I wondered, who disrespect the idea of organizing a community to work on its own behalf? I [...]