Comments on: Flight Delay Calculator: Cool and useful http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/flight-delay-calculator-cool-and-useful/ Notes from the classroom and observations about professional practices for sharing the news on digital platforms. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Will Sommer - 24 ways to improve your news site http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/flight-delay-calculator-cool-and-useful/comment-page-1/#comment-14208 Will Sommer - 24 ways to improve your news site Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:47:08 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/flight-delay-calculator-cool-and-useful/#comment-14208 [...] A calculator can be used to illustrate the personal effect in a story involving numbers. For example, Barack Obama’s campaign used a calculator to show voters how Obama’s tax plan would affect their taxes, while the Las Vegas Sun created a flight delay calculator (via Mindy McAdams). [...] [...] A calculator can be used to illustrate the personal effect in a story involving numbers. For example, Barack Obama’s campaign used a calculator to show voters how Obama’s tax plan would affect their taxes, while the Las Vegas Sun created a flight delay calculator (via Mindy McAdams). [...]

]]> By: Dan Kubiske http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/flight-delay-calculator-cool-and-useful/comment-page-1/#comment-9936 Dan Kubiske Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:15:23 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/flight-delay-calculator-cool-and-useful/#comment-9936 Great link. I took the US government links in the article and passed them on -- with credit to you and the Sun -- to my fellow journalism profs about ways our students can used the information to develop stories and fill out otherwise potentially boring anecdotal stories about air travel. http://gmujournalism.blogspot.com/2008/04/looking-for-interesting-story-idea.html I also included it in the DC SPJ blog site. http://dcspjpro.blogspot.com/2008/04/figuring-out-flight-delays.html Great link.

I took the US government links in the article and passed them on — with credit to you and the Sun — to my fellow journalism profs about ways our students can used the information to develop stories and fill out otherwise potentially boring anecdotal stories about air travel.

http://gmujournalism.blogspot.com/2008/04/looking-for-interesting-story-idea.html

I also included it in the DC SPJ blog site.

http://dcspjpro.blogspot.com/2008/04/figuring-out-flight-delays.html

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