By Mindy McAdams
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One of the more inspiring stories of the intermediate stage of online journalism takes place in the Nevada desert.
At the beginning of 2008, almost no one had ever heard of the Las Vegas Sun. “We had about six weeks to build the site after we had the staff in place,” said Tyson Evans, new media [...]
Richard Koci Hernandez used to have this great blog called MultimediaShooter.com, and all of us online journalism junkies liked it — a lot! But it kept getting hacked, somehow, and Koci gave it up.
Now MultimediaShooter.com is back! And since Web guru Scot Hacker at Cal Berkeley set up the WP install, I think maybe we [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
A minimalistic PowerPoint outlines the basics, in modular pieces:
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I gave this presentation today at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Related resources are linked on this page, which I prepared for five days of journalist training in Vietnam earlier this summer.
My aim in this [...]
A useful and illuminating site I used to love has risen, phoenix-like, from its ashes.
Interactive Narratives is a database of links to, and descriptions of, some of the best examples of multimedia journalism and online news design. Redesigned and easier to use, it will likely be welcomed by everyone who loves this kind of work.
A new online course, in Spanish, will focus on online journalism skills for current journalists. The class will take place entirely online and will cover these five areas:
Introduction to Journalism 2.0. Understand the opportunities and challenges of practicing journalism in the digital age.
Web 2.0 and an Eye on the Future. Learn how Web 2.0 [...]
Yesterday I had a conversation with a reporter whose news organization has committed to forming a new Web/digital team. His questions made me think about how undefined this work still is, on the whole.
He asked whether there is any book or Web site that explains the differences among all the job titles he’s encountered — [...]
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