By Mindy McAdams
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Have you seen the L.A. Times homicides map? I’m sure you’ve marveled at the New York Times homicides map, and perhaps you have also admired the Boston Globe homicides map. The L.A. map, however, has a lot (a lot!) of fine features that the others lack.
One of my students wrote a critique of the L.A. [...]
I’m referring, of course, to “real-time Web” and “augmented reality.” The second such terms hit the mainstream press, we are likely to be bombarded by them for weeks or even months. A Time magazine cover story is probably in the works. (Or have they already done it? I haven’t seen a Time cover recently.) Jon [...]
Lots of folks were talking about micropayments for journalistic content this week (example).
One thing I’ve mulled over is a daily fee that’s quite small (say, 50 cents? Maybe even less). I think this is easier to accept than a fee per article; most articles are so short, and really, you might only read the first [...]
We’ve reached the point where having journalism students take one isolated class about “online journalism” is not sufficient.
Ideally, online reporting and editing skills (and associated ethics) would be integrated into every reporting and editing class. If that’s not happening, then your program will need to offer specialized courses. Here are a few guidelines:
A pure production [...]
Some months ago, when I had somehow been persuaded to fly to Los Angeles to participate in a nice event at the USC Annenberg j-school, I learned about a unique project commissioned by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. And then I forgot about it. And then I remembered, and I searched for it, but [...]
The New York Times has put up a wonderful package of Obama’s Election Night speech, with a dynamic transcript and a useful navigation bar. Listen and watch again.
Now we’re talking about breaking away from the so-called rules of online video.
So watch this, and see what you think:
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Original video (bigger) here. (See the 270 comments posted [...]
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