Whether you’re a TV reporter or producer, it’s quite likely that you will also be working for your station’s website, but just what duties are most common? New research from Michael Cremedas and Suzanne Lysak of Syracuse University provides important…
USA Today puts together some amazing online interactives with a surprisingly small staff. Just five people are typically involved in putting together major projects, says Chet Czarniak, managing editor of USAToday.com–a designer, programmer, producer, IT person and database editor. The…
By Stephen Goforth, University of Mississippi (former CNN writer/producer) The Online News Association convention in San Francisco included a session titled, “Design Solutions from News Experts.” While panelists from the New York Times revealed a glimpse into new features coming…
If your goal is to produce a sticky Web site, data is one way to get there. Providing lots of information that people can explore on their own will entice some of them, at least, to spend time on the…
Most television Web sites have left the age of shovelware behind, thank goodness. It took a while, but stations finally figured out that simply posting TV scripts online wouldn’t entice anyone to visit a site twice. That said, there’s still…
If you aren’t already reading any of Jakob Nielsen’s work about online writing, you should start. Just recently he published his pick for the news organization with the best Web headlines. And the winner is….the BBC. According to Nielsen, good headlines should…
So you’ve been laid off or can’t find a job in journalism. Think you can survive on blogging alone? Not so fast, says Scott Joseph. After taking a buyout from the Orlando Sentinel, where he’d spent 20 years as a…
The Washington Post is already up with a very cool interactive map and timeline of President Obama’s inauguration. TimeSpace lets users “experience the events of Inauguration Day through photos, video and text from specific locations.” Students from the University of…
If there was ever any doubt about the popularity and staying power of blogging, a new report says there shouldn’t be. Ten years after the launch of the first blog host, Open Diary, blogs have become a truly “global phenomenon…
National Public Radio is reinventing itself as a multimedia news organization, and is retraining its staff for this new mission. In the latest issue of American Journalism Review, Jennifer Doroh reports that NPR hopes to have 450 staffers up to…
