Reporting has always been about digging for facts, finding people to talk with, and gathering visual and aural accounts. Now that broadband is widespread, the tools have changed.
This Saturday, I’ll be in South Florida teaching an Online News Association workshop on where to go and what to use to mine, crowdsource, and distribute stories. It’s [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: Online News Association, Online social networking, Social information processing, twitter, Web 2.0
I came up with a Yahoo Hack Day idea that I hope will be fun and useful. To get it to work well, I need sample data. Could you take this survey and ask others to do so, too? Thank you.
If I can stay awake long enough, I may have the seed of my project [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: hack day, openhacknyc, survey, yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams opened the Online News Association 2009 conference with a discussion about the service, how it’s changed and what plans the company has in store. Watch the livestream:
You can also watch Leo Laporte’s keynote and the ONA Online Journalism Awards ceremony. Video from ONA09 panel sessions are free for members, [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: conference, Evan Williams, keynote, ONA09, Online News Association, twitter
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Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: ONA09
The sold-out annual convergence of digital journalists begins this week in San Francisco, with a career summit/job fair and pre-conference workshops on Thursday, and formal proceedings Friday and Saturday.
Once again, I’ll be acting as control tower on Twitter @ONA09, directing you to discussions of note, posts, articles, and relevant links. The conference hashtag is #ONA09. [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Linda Tischler, who covers design stories for Fast Company magazine, posts 10 tips on how to sell your story idea.
The list is mostly pet peeves, which freelancers must pay attention to. But there are also two excellent guidelines on what to do:
Offer me something nobody’s had before. The quickest way to catch my eye is [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money
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Categories: General Journalism
Ira Glass broke a lot of newswriting rules when he first started the radio show that would become the wildly popular weekly series, “This American Life.”
His stories weren’t fact-supplemental fact-quote or soundbite from a source, but anecdotes told the way broadcast instructors always urge: like you were telling your friends something fascinating.
If you like the [...]
Categories: Tips + Techniques, video
Tagged: Human Interest, Ira Glass, This American Life