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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “reporting” category

Outfit yourself for audio gathering

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs.
All the information you need is here: [...]

Live in Fort Lauderdale

Thursday, September 18, 2008

This weekend I will be attending the National Writers Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ll be the guest of the South Florida Sun Sentinel; I’ll be doing some training in their newsroom on Friday.
Information about NWW is here. The schedule is here.
My session might be the ONLY one that’s not about writing. I’m going to [...]

Live from inside the courtroom, via Twitter

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

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 [...]

How online graphics succeed, or fail: 5 factors

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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 [...]

Two different approaches to video reports

Friday, July 18, 2008

Some lessons about how to write, how to report, and how to do video for online:
In conducting my iPhone research last week, naturally I consulted two of the better-known technology journalists, Walt Mossberg and David Pogue. I watched their video reviews of the product, and it made me think a bit about how journalists get [...]

Any journalist can do this. Really.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Bill Dunphy manages WebU, a training facility created to put 500 managers and staff from Metroland West Media Group through a week-long Web boot camp. Cool, huh?
He posted this list on his blog for WebU; the list is called Seven Steps to Writing Like a Digital Native:

Are there original documents you can link to?
Are there [...]

Court reporting — live updates via Twitter

Friday, May 16, 2008

Filing briefs live from the courtroom during a murder trial:

Where: Kansas.com (The Wichita Eagle)
When: Right now
URL: http://www.kansas.com/chelseabrooks/
Backstory: ABA Journal