Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, was answering readers’ questions online for the past five days.
What he looks for when hiring a new employee:
[A]n ideal applicant would have very strong traditional graphic design skills; in-depth training in usability and interaction design; practical experience coding XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash; a commercially viable comfort level with […]

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 […]

(1) You can make a playlist of a selected group of videos in YouTube and then generate a custom video player (also in YouTube) to play just those videos — in any order you select. Maybe this is old news to everyone else, but it was new to me. I thought it was really cool, […]

The Olympic Torch carried through San Francisco, reported minute by minute, from the scene:

If you still don’t understand the value of Twitter, click the image to see the story.
(Via Team Tibet, on Twitter.)

Like a lot of j-schools, mine has been discussing updates to the curriculum. Much of that discussion concerns skills. So we ended up saying we need a list of skills. Then someone said, yeah, I’ve seen that kind of list, and I don’t know what some of that stuff means. If you say the students […]

I asked three journalism professors who teach magazine courses to tell me the top three magazines they would choose to subscribe to in printed form, no matter how good the Web site for the magazine was. Here are their lists, in rank order:
Professor No. 1

O (Oprah Winfrey’s magazine)
Esquire
National Geographic

Professor No. 2

Esquire
Sports Illustrated
Outside

Professor No. 3

National Geographic
The […]

Smart words from Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, based in Dubai:
Digital journalism is part of the continued journey of journalism.  …
The increasingly active role of the reader/user in the news process is an opportunity not a threat for professional journalists.  …
The Golden Age of investigative journalism is just beginning.  …
Read the interview. It’s […]