This page accompanies a one-hour chat with MFA graphic design students.
September 11 Anniversary (The Hole in Manhattan's Heart), Newsweek
Explore the Human Heart, National Geographic
Liberians in Minnesota, Star Tribune, Minneapolis (analysis)
40 Years of RESPECT, Detroit Free Press (analysis)
Sputnik Anniversary: Comparing print and online treatments
Virginia Tech Shootings, New York Times (analysis)
California Fires, Newsweek (analysis)
Vincent Brothers Murder Trial, Bakersfield Californian (analysis)
D.C. Schools Scorecard, Washington Post
Interactive Wealth Calculator, New York Times (analysis)
Stoves for Guatemala, Houston Chronicle
IEDs: The Hidden Enemy, Newsweek
Afro-Latin Americans, Miami Herald
Islam in Europe, MSNBC.com
Churchill and the Great Republic, Library of Congress
SXSW 2006, Dallas Morning News
Burning Man, Las Vegas Sun
A single person might be able to serve in two or even three of these positions on the team, but it's unlikely that one person will be able to do it all.
Society for News Design (SND)
Membership is open to anyone with a professional interest in news and news
design. They have GREAT conferences and workshops.
Alberto Cairo Web Site
Cairo used to be a news graphic artist (infografista) at El Mundo,
a large daily newspaper in Madrid. Now he teaches journalism at the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He shares a lot of his wonderful teaching
materials online.
Visual Editors
Editors, designers, IT managers, and publishers check in to this "classroom"
to learn what's new and to develop new strategies for telling stories.
A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change, by Adrian Holovaty
HTML Dog has the best tutorials, free and not cluttered with ads!
10-Minute Flash Tutorials (honestly, only 10 minutes each)
Simple Flash Project: Single SWF (your first Flash package)
FlashJournalism.com (companion Web site to the book)
Journalists' Toolkit: Flash Resources
My e-mail:
My blog: Teaching Online Journalism