By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
Lee Glynn, a multimedia artist and designer at The St. Pete Times, in Florida, showed off a package about the Sputnik anniversary at a workshop held Saturday at our university. It’s kind of a workaday package, but that’s worth thinking about. It’s an anniversary story — you can plan ahead. It’s not a huge story [...]
Tomorrow — yes, tomorrow — on the beautiful campus of my university:
Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
All I’m doing is one session about blogging. I would have done anything they asked me to do, but blogging is all they wanted from me. (Yeah, go figure — a prophet is often without honor in her own land, [...]
With so many newspapers focusing time, money and other resources on online video, it’s great to see some real-life stats for how many people watch this stuff:
Since the video was posted on the [Gainesville] Sun Web site, [Executive Editor Jim] Osteen said, it has drawn more than 20,000 hits, a sharp rise from the usual [...]
Our university became the focus of national attention on Monday when campus police shot a student with a Taser during a public forum with U.S. Senator John Kerry.
One story I heard after the event: An experienced reporter was assigned to cover the forum but begged off because it was “just a speech.” An inexperienced reporter [...]
Followthemedia says The Tampa Tribune’s plan to reorganize its priorities and workflows just might be a good blueprint for other metro dailies too.
The Tribune is catching up on all the things that many metropolitan newspapers have done before it — outsourcing back office jobs (classified advertising telephone sales, circulation, customer service), changing page width, getting [...]
There are 204 newspapers in the Florida Press Association (which provides handy links to the newspapers’ Web sites). Of those, 46 are dailies. The State Library of Florida lists 55 dailies in our state (also with links).
One is a truly great newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times (circ. 327,390). It’s often held up as a model [...]
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