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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “design” category

New York Times map and data for Super Tuesday

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Others have already blogged this, but it bears repeating — this is a beautiful package of data. Loads like lightning. Combines Flash and XML and HTML and CSS. Easy to figure out. Just a gorgeous example of what a team of smart, well-organized journalists can put together if they know what they’re doing.

Maps and dynamic data: Bridge Tracker

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Nice work from MSNBC.com on a Bridge Tracker graphic that allows you to enter any two U.S. cities and see all bridges between them, with data about safety inspections for each bridge. Data for more than 100,000 bridges are included. The graphic is part of an investigative package about bridge inspections.
Apart from its news value, […]

Bidding farewell to Chicago Crime

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Adrian Holovaty has announced the shutdown of chicagocrime.org, the groundbreaking online dynamic data project that has inspired so many journalists since 2005 (only 2005? Gosh, it seems much longer … Internet years …).
The site is still functioning today, but according to Adrian’s post, it will be gone tomorrow.
One of many things I have liked to […]

XML and data in Flash for smooth updates

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Florida has its presidential primaries under way today, and The Miami Herald has produced a nifty data-driven map to show the results:

University of Florida journalism alum Stephanie Rosenblatt (May 2007) e-mailed to say that the Herald graphic is using feeds coming in live from the AP. The numbers are feeding into XML documents, and Stephanie’s […]

But can you tell a story?

Monday, January 21, 2008

Can you do great narrative storytelling purely in XHTML and CSS? Or do you need Flash?
This provocative question stems from a recent blog post by Khoi Vinh, design director for nytimes.com. He didn’t come straight out and ask that, but pretty close:
My complaint, right now, is that the majority of storytelling that happens on the […]

Long-anticipated launch of Las Vegas Sun redesign

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Putting a value on journalism memberships

Monday, January 14, 2008

Will Sullivan did a brilliant thing in his blog yesterday: He evaluated four professional journalism / visual journalism / multimedia journalism organizations he belongs to. The four are the Online News Association (ONA), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Society for News Design (SND), and Sports Shooter (which has an excellent Web site you can read […]