Is this the future of print? Esquire Magazine has just published an experimental, limited-edition issue that features something called electronic ink on the cover, with moving words and flashing images. The same technology puts a Ford ad in motion on…
Month: September 2008
What CNN has learned from iReport
In the two years since CNN launched iReport, its user-generated content initiative has contributed to and even driven some of network’s coverage, says Tyson Wheatley, news manager for user participation at CNN. Accepting a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism yesterday, Wheatley said CNN…
Working as a Web producer
60 sites in 60 minutes
Hats off to Molly McDonough of the ABA Journal online and Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle for their whirlwind tour of useful sites for journalists at last week’s SPJ convention. Among their recommendations that I don’t think we’ve mentioned…
Photojournalism can be dangerous
Award-winning photographer Luis Sinco of the Los Angeles Times knows first-hand how risky his profession can be. He was embedded with a Marine unit in 2004 during some of the heaviest fighting in Iraq; one of his photos from that…