Online Journalism Strategies

Video and Flash handout (PDF file, 256 KB): This handout has been updated. It is 8 pages, illustrated.

National television awards (Emmys) honor video from The Washington Post newspaper (see all five finalists for the award)
Washington Post documentary video (index)
Roanoke.com video and multimedia (index; or watch a very amusing installment of Roanoke's daily Webcast from Oct. 24, 2006, complete with cockroaches and deer hunters)
Spokesman Review newspaper "transparent newsroom"
Spokesman Review newspaper Video Journal

Great Flash video tutorials: gotoAndLearn.com (in the archives, find Video Basics - Part 1 - 8)

National Public Radio (U.S.)
Story: U.N. Readies N. Korea Sanctions; Vote Saturday (listen to the audio from the page, without using iTunes)
iTunes (main site, from Apple)
Podcast Alley (thousands of free podcasts)

Put your own podcasts online at iTunes -- here's how.

Start your own free blog at Blogger.com or search for blogs by topic at Technorati blog search.

Bluffton Today (population: about 15,000 people)
Flickr.com photo sharing site (example shown: Paris in Riots, by Gonzale)
Bakotopia and The Northwest Voice are two of the many citizen journalism and community Web sites operated by The Bakersfield Californian newspaper

Download a "cookbook" for creating a citizen journalism Web site (PDF file; requires free Adobe Reader).

Allow your readers, viewers and listeners to subscribe to your news, blog, or podcasts. Subscriptions can be read via mobile or in a Web browser.

How it all works (What is a "feed"? How to subscribe to news feeds)

"Burn" your own feed (free) at Feedburner

Mindy's blog is Teaching Online Journalism. You will always find sites like these discussed in the blog.

Sofia and Rousse, Bulgaria | October 2006