By Mindy McAdams
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On Tuesday I had a pair of guest speakers — Melissa Lyttle (photojournalist) and Lane DeGregory (reporter) — talk about how they reported The Girl in the Window for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. My course is Reporting and Writing for Online Media (syllabus here), but I told our guests I [...]
The Society of Professional Journalists has announced its annual awards for best online reporting. I think we should take a moment to consider how this great reporting is presented online.
Deadline Reporting (affiliated): Path of Destruction: Central Florida Storms, Clarisa Gerlach & staffs, TBO.com, WFLA and The Tampa Tribune. Is it just me, or is the [...]
First, it’s online: House of Lies (WARNING: It is NOISY!).
Second, the Herald has posted a nice brief about the winning story, “which revealed developers took millions of dollars in taxpayer money to build affordable housing for the poor, but failed to deliver, leaving thousands without their promised homes.”
Third, Debbie Cenziper, the reporter, was editor of [...]
So The Charleston Gazette, a small newspaper in West Virginia, won an IRE award for its investigative series about mine safety.
After years of covering the coal industry, [reporter Ken Ward, Jr.] offers readers an unparalleled portrait of the dangers inside mines and the breakdowns of regulation that made 2006 a deadly year. Using documents and [...]
Several people have written recently about the need to convey data — statistical information — online and in journalism generally. They are correct! Especially with the ability to search and to convey the data with dynamic graphics — online provides the perfect showcase for deep, meaningful data.
Derek Willis (the research database editor at The Washington [...]
In the years since Watergate,
while journalists have been busy honing their ability to uncover hidden information, the world has become a place where the scarcity of info isn’t the biggest problem. Its proliferation is. And by and large, journalism organizations don’t have the skills or tools to sort through all the data.
In an excellent post [...]
In comments about the 2005 IRE Award Winners, the judges had this to say about the Bergen County (N.J.) Record’s top medal-winning story, Toxic Legacy:
This work stood out not only for its exhaustive reporting and clear writing, but for its riveting multimedia presentation, which set a standard to which larger publications and broadcast outlets should [...]
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