Author: Debora Wenger

Student journalists tripping up with Twitter?

If you’re a journalism educator or a journalism student, two new studies are worth a look. The researchers behind “U.S. College Student Media and Twitter: Are Student Media Following Best Practices” surveyed the research and developed a list of five…

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Eight essential skills for journalists in 2019 and beyond

Mindy McAdams has long been an early adopter of new technologies and storytelling strategies for journalists. The University of Florida educator is the Knight Chair for Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process and she has trained hundreds of journalists in…

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6 keys to successful social videos

Digital news video consumption is increasing in general and across all the dominant social media platforms.  When videos published to social are designed specifically for the medium and by extension for mobile devices, they tend to perform better on measures…

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Five steps to better visual storytelling

Derek Seals is one of those people who just knows how to tell a story. The multimedia work he’s produced for the Detroit Free Press since 1999 is award-winning and powerful. He says he thinks about visual journalism as if…

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Five free and useful digital storytelling tools

Fran Bi is a storytelling engineer for SBNation. His focus is on taking sports features and finding new ways to tell them. “So, a lot of that is with graphics, whether it’s data visualizations or animations or any type of…

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Social media fosters “empathy” in journalists

Tony Russell is a reporter for KJRH, a Scripps-owned NBC affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A native of St. Louis, he graduated from the University of Mississippi in 2010. He also has worked for KHBS/KHOG-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Russell holds…

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How to get a social media job in a newsroom

Forget “digital first,” you need to be “digital now,” says Tanita Gaither, digital content manager for Raycom’s WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina. The 2011 graduate from the University of Georgia says it’s simply not enough to post regularly to your own personal…

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How to get a job as a TV news reporter

When you’re hunting for a job in TV news, it’s easy to assume that everyone you see on the nightly newscast had an easy time getting there.  But talk to reporters in a typical newsroom and you’ll see there are…

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