By Mindy McAdams

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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 “workflow” category

Trifecta for success in the new new journalism

Monday, September 29, 2008

There’s more to this brave new world of journalism than technology skills.
Business sense will play a large role in the rest of your career, whether you are a journalism student or a seasoned veteran.
If journalism students graduate without an understanding of how editorial, business, and technology work together, “you have not prepared them for the [...]

Why the Las Vegas Sun is so great (Part 3)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Previously: Part 1 (Introduction to the Sun) and Part 2 (What They Do)
While they’re shooting tons of video and chasing breaking news, the journalists at the Las Vegas Sun also manage to produce some darned impressive large projects. I blogged about their way-cool Flight Delay Calculator in April — it’s a data-driven interactive graphic that [...]

AVCHD becoming less of a bear

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Last fall I blogged about the choice between a MiniDV video camera and the new tapeless models (Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD). The AVCHD format poses some challenges if you are trying to work with older video editing software and/or older computers. However, the prospect of going tapeless (and having faster file [...]

Advice for fresh journalism graduates (from a May graduate)

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A spring 2008 graduate of our journalism program got a job as an editorial producer with MLB.com. That means he gets paid to watch baseball and write about it. Sweet, no?
So to help out other journalism students, Nick Rosinia wrote this — “The ‘How to Watch Baseball All Day and Get Paid Handsomely (Well, Not [...]

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 [...]

Setting up a team for online journalism

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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 — [...]

Move your journalism beyond writing

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Early last week, someone added an old post from this blog to StumbleUpon. It garnered about 200 pageviews that day, making a little spike in my site traffic report. The post was from December 2006, and I didn’t even remember writing it.
Everyday journalism, on the job
I wrote about how a reporter would do her job [...]