Moodle and margaritas? Blackboard and beer? Journalism teachers may be joking about beverage pairings as they prepare to teach online for a while, but they’re also facing challenges posed by the need for “virtual instruction” due to the coronavirus. Most…
It’s hard enough to report, write, edit and produce the news these days but, even if you can do all of that well, you may need additional skills to survive and thrive in a digital-first newsroom. Some are obvious: You’d…
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…
Another terror attack, this time at an upscale hotel in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. At least 21 people were killed in the assault on the DusitD2 complex last week. As the siege went on for 20 hours, photojournalists captured images…
You’ve done a TV story, rewritten it for the web and promoted it on social media. All good. But you can still do more with the story online by adding multimedia elements and there are good reasons for doing so.…
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…
Social media can be a bother, just one more thing to fit into an already overloaded day. If it feels that way to you, you’re doing it wrong. Boyd Huppert, who’s been in TV news more than 30 years, calls…
While she hates to hear someone utter the phrase ‘print is dead,’ Lacey Russell, a CNN video production assistant, knows it’s a digital world. “I don’t like when people say ‘print is dead,’ because good writing will never die,” she…
One of the many challenges of a television investigation is figuring out how to make sure people see it. Josh Hinkle and the investigative unit at KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas, spent 10 months looking into killings of peace officers across…
There are thousands of them on Facebook Messenger alone, and journalism organizations with plenty of resources and lots of room for innovation have been experimenting with chat bots, voice interfaces and machine learning to engage their audiences. For the uninitiated,…
