Have you heard? Though most Americans still turn to TV to get national and international news, for the first time, the Web has overtaken newspapers as a news source.
In fact, according to a late December blog post by Nielsen Online, about two-thirds of all adults who were on the Web looked for news online in [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: Beyond Bootcamp, journalism school, Rich Beckman, The New York Times, University of Miami
2008 has been a tough year for news. In addition to massive layoffs as documented by Erica Smith at her Paper Cuts map, advertising revenues tanked last quarter.
Nevertheless, news companies still need content. And they’re still looking for people. Do you have the right skills and are you willing to be where the work is?
Webb [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: jobs
Almost 10 years ago, four guys watching the way business was being done on the Web posted a 95-point proclamation of what worked and didn’t online. They called it “The Cluetrain Manifesto.” Its key tenets: Conversation is essential for business to thrive. Silence kills.
In the least year or so, I’ve heard more marketers like Ian [...]
Categories: Social Media, Tips & Tools
Garrett Hubbard takes questions during a live Q&A online.
(Photograph by H. Darr Beiser/USA Today © 2008, used with permission)
Click below to read some of Garrett’s answers.
Categories: Photojournalism, Tips & Tools, video
Tagged: livechat
ONA08, the Online News Association’s national conference, has launched several sites online, where you can connect with others who will be in Washington, in person or in avatar, next week.
There’s:
A Twitter feed that’s the “control tower” for all things ONA08 online
An embeddable Twitter widget that collects all tweets tagged @ONA08 and #ONA08
A pre-conference podcast series [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Social Media, Tips & Tools
Tagged: conferences, ona08
Most freelancers will tell you when it comes to deciding who to write for, choose magazines. The pay better. And there’s something nice about seeing your name, your photos, your work on glossy — or if it’s a “green” publication, matte — textweight stock.
They’ll also tell you it’s good to develop relationships with editors. After [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Making Money, Tips & Tools
Drew DeVigal’s Interactive Narratives has relaunched.
The site is a searchable database “designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling around the country and the world.”
Register, and you can submit your own work, as well as vote on and critique others’ multimedia projects.
“Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Photojournalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: andrewdevigal, audio, database, drewvigal, interactive, multimedia, search, video
Carlos Brando, a Ruby on Rails developer, has released a free book covering the Ruby on Rails 2.1 updates.
It’s a pretty good overview for those new to the latest version of Rails. And hey, you can’t beat the price.
(via Ruby Inside)
Categories: Tips & Tools
It’s the end of the week, which means time for Ricochet’s One for Fun.
Today, I’m giving away private beta invites.
Update: All the invites are gone. If I get more in the future, I’ll post a new note.
Mapfaced allows users to create, search for and rate food and drink crawls in New York City. It’s positioned [...]
Categories: Maps, One For Fun, Tips & Tools
Tagged: beta, invites, Maps, productivity
I love The Economist.
You may scoff at their Web site, but there are few sources that analyze business and world affairs as well or as soberly.
On March 6, they published a story called, “Hold the Front Page,” which described an HP Social Computing Lab study that tried to answer the question: How do you maximize [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: exposure, lineup, readership, rundown, story order, traffic