Here’s one year-in-review list you won’t want to toss out with the empties on New Year’s Day. Poynter’s Regina McCombs has posted links to multimedia projects you may have missed and they’re well worth exploring. Her categories include map-based storytelling like the Iowa tornado coverage we mentioned here, as well as interactive graphics, video interactives …
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The Pew Research Center’s annual look at where people get their news shows TV still dominates, but online news consumption continues to grow. In fact, newspapers are no longer the second most common source of news for Americans, they’ve dropped into third place. According to Media Post Publications, TV claimed “70% share in 2008–but that’s down …
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Finally, some good news for journalists. It turns out they can’t be entirely replaced by computers. Not for lack of trying, you understand. But Gabe Rivera, the brains behind the technology news aggregator Techmeme.com, now admits, “Automated news doesn’t quite work.” Instead of relying exclusively on algorithms to decide the mix of headlines on …
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It’s being called a “game changer” for commenting on the news. Graduate students at Northwestern’s Medill j-school have developed a Web site that marries news content with a Facebook app to let users have their say about news stories. News Mixer takes content from the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette and allows users to log in …
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According to a new survey, online news is widely considered just as credible as newspapers and TV news. In some countries, including the United States, it’s seen as even more trustworthy. But the survey found that blogs, as opposed to online news sites, are almost universally distrusted. The study, by the research and marketing group …
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Hundreds of new journalism graduates are either out looking for jobs right now or soon will be following December graduation ceremonies. At least as many experienced journalists are also out pounding the pavement for work in the wake of layoffs across the country. NPR’s Alex Cohen sat down to talk with with Dean of the UC Berkeley School …
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Who you are is just as important as what you know when it comes to getting and keeping a job. Who you are is your personal brand, says consultant Terry Heaton, and journalists should take it seriously, especially when they’re just starting out in the profession. A young person applying for a good job may …
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It’s the first major market station in the country to do away with all of its two-person reporting teams. Under a new agreement reached this week with its labor unions, WUSA, Channel 9, will become the first station in Washington to replace its crews with one-person “multimedia journalists” who will shoot and edit news stories single-handedly. The …
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A colleague emailed this week to ask if I have any gift suggestions for a friend of hers who’s about to start graduate studies in journalism. Well, of course I do. But I decided not to send her a list. No, I’m not playing Grinch at this time of year. I figured if one person …
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The Los Angeles Times has quietly built a huge online resource that gives users the opportunity to explore information on their own. The data desk holds the results of 38 projects and more than 730,000 records: databases, lists, maps and rankings, both local and national. Most of the entries are under politics–from donor lists to …
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