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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
After hearing a shopping mall was supposedly being evacuated because of a “bomb device,” Andy Stettler turned to his phone.
Using Banjo, a location-based application, Stettler checked the app’s map for geo-tagged social media posts coming out of the … Read more
It seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up, a chance for a young online startup to pounce on a news niche that has proven popular across the country but was virtually abandoned by one city’s legacy media.
All … Read more
The Washington Post on Thursday became the latest news organization to take the increasingly fashionable step of blowing up its article template to present a feature story in a unique, immersive format.
In December, The New York Times blew some … Read more
Interviews are a cornerstone of video storytelling because they provide emotion, content and structure, especially in documentary-style stories with little or no narration. Good interviews make for good videos.
Fortunately, most of what you’ve learned about interviewing applies to video. … Read more
Journalists are finding that social media gives them ample opportunities to breathe new life into archived content. Recently, they’ve used social networking sites — while covering deaths, anniversaries, birthdays and ongoing stories — to resurface old content that their audiences … Read more
The good news for reporters today is that the advent of smartphones has made it possible for them to do part of their job with nothing more than a phone. The bad news is, the practice of “mobile reporting” is … Read more
By now you’ve heard about how The Journal News of Westchester County, N.Y., published the names and addresses of thousands of local gun permit holders.
And you’ve heard that many gun owners felt The Journal News was either insulting their … Read more
If I could change anything about Twitter, allowing us to have more than 20 lists would be high up on my list. Pun unavoidable.
Twitter grows with each redesign that expands its abilities, but it hasn’t expanded the limits of … Read more