By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
A journalist is tweeting the closing arguments of a sentencing trial in Spokane — live. This is a capital murder case.
The newspaper’s Twitter feed is here. WARNING: Some descriptions and references relate to extreme violence. More trial coverage from The Spokesman-Review appears on a special Web page.
Journalists at The Wichita Eagle pioneered this kind of [...]
After watching El País cover a large-scale tragedy thoroughly, tirelessly, with courage and restraint, I dipped into my RSS reader and found Greg Linch’s post at TNTJ ( “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists”). If you’re in the mood for inspiration, for something to make you stop sighing and crying about the current state of journalism, TNTJ [...]
Follow how a great online news organization follows a big breaking story, at El País.
Here is an early infographic:
The plane crashed about six hours ago, at 2:45 p.m. local time (GMT +2), while taking off at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
Update (6:40 p.m. EDT): The updated animated graphic makes good use of satellite images.
Update (10:45 p.m. EDT): [...]
News update junkies, this is for you. The images are screenshots straight from the iPhone screen. You don’t need the new model to run these — just the 2.0 software upgrade.
Mobile News Network, from the Associated Press. “Today in Video” and “Today in Photos” (above, top left) are very cool, although, unfortunately, the quality of [...]
The BBC reports on a study of use of the mobile Internet (the Internet on your phone!):
The US is the most tech savvy nation with nearly 40 million Americans — 16% of all US mobile users — using their handset to browse on the move. The UK and then Italy come a close second and [...]
Can a newspaper eliminate all beats? That seems to be the plan at the Tampa Tribune.
Division of newspaper journalism work into “beats” has practical benefits. The reporter on the cops beat gets to know local law enforcement and local crime pretty well. (The cops reporter can tell you which streets are unsafe at night!) He [...]
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