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What news organizations are learning from their ebook efforts

Taylor Miller Thomas — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:39:21 +0000

News organizations have responded to changes in readers’ habits by moving beyond the newsstand and toward the bookshelf, zeroing in on ebooks as a new revenue source and a way to explore genres not typically found on front pages or … Read more

Tips for investigating a story like Cleveland’s missing women

Al Tompkins — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:21:51 +0000

How do you dig up information in a story like the one unfolding in Cleveland when all you know is three women missing for nearly a decade suddenly escaped their captors? When the story broke, government offices were closed, the … Read more

Confessions of a Twitter holdout

Stephanie Yamkovenko — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:46:10 +0000

While attending the 2011 Excellence in Journalism Conference in my hometown of New Orleans, I convinced myself to sit in on a few social-media sessions. I wasn’t participating in social media personally, but I knew its influence was continuing to … Read more

How journalists can remove themselves from Twitter lists — & why it matters

Nina L. Diamond — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:32:46 +0000

I love Twitter lists, and a while back I wrote about how they can help you as a journalist. So you may be surprised that I’m now going to tell you why you might not want to be on … Read more

How sensor journalism can help us create data, improve our storytelling

Matt Waite — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:06:22 +0000

Data journalism, meet sensor journalism. You two should talk.

What’s sensor journalism? I’ll get to that. But first, let me tell you a story about bugs — and a pair of gadgets that sat for months in a box under … Read more

What e-learning can teach us about journalism

Howard Finberg — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:12:44 +0000

The Poynter Institute’s e-learning project, News University, is celebrating its eighth birthday today. In digital years (three times faster than analog), that makes us about 24; old enough to know better but still young enough to have lots … Read more

What journalists need to know about the difference between Web apps and native apps

Casey Frechette — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:38:18 +0000

Facebook’s recent unveiling of Home, a software suite for Android phones (and soon tablets), offered more evidence that apps rule the mobile world.

Just a few years ago, usage of apps lagged Web browsing within that world. But … Read more

How journalists can measure engagement

Meena Thiruvengadam — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:17:13 +0000

Most journalists now understand they need to engage with audiences, whether online or in person. But it’s still not clear how news organizations can measure whether their attempts at engagement are paying off.

“Engagement isn’t just Twitter, Facebook or social … Read more

How news can compete with cat videos: 6 lessons for multimedia journalists

Carrie Ching — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:56:23 +0000

Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling projects for six years. We were often working with … Read more

How The Huffington Post is mapping news reports of gun-related deaths

Al Tompkins — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:02:11 +0000

The Huffington Post has compiled and mapped news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.

For 98 days, a team of Huffington Post researchers scanned news reports from around the … Read more