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Lessons from HuffingtonPost.com

Jonathan Dube — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:35:16 +0000

The HuffingtonPost.com’s meteoric rise in traffic in the past year has caused a lot of people to take notice. What is it about this blog-based site that has made it so successful?

The site, built on Movable Type blogging software, is… Read more

Statewide Coverage: Finding and Filling Some Gaps

Jonathan Dube — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:48:35 +0000

The Zonie Report is an online, independent media site that covers statewide issues in an unusual way.

At a time when news organizations are struggling for innovative ways to cover state news (see the recent story sharing partnership in Ohio),

Pulitzers and the Web

Jonathan Dube — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:24:04 +0000

Online journalism is increasingly playing a role in the Pulitzer Prizes.

The Pulitzers first allowed Web elements to be submitted starting in 1999, when they opened up the Public Service category.

In 2005, a journalist at a weekly newspaper… Read more

Creating a ‘Primary Place’ for Citizens Online

Jonathan Dube — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:10:15 +0000

New Hampshire Public Radio has spearheaded one of the more ambitious and innovative uses of the Web during the election so far.

The station created a citizen media Web site, Primary Place Online (PPO), as a… Read more

Behind CNN’s New Citizen Media Site

Jonathan Dube — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:36:06 +0000

Note: After seven wonderful
years of Web Tips columns, we’re going to broaden our focus from Web-based reporting tools to the variety of ways journalists are
using the Web. We hope you’ll stick with us… Read more

Find out What People Are Saying Online

Jonathan Dube — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:30:33 +0000

Wondering what new parents really think about co-sleeping and Ferberizing? Or what Harry Potter fans are saying about the possible spoilers circulating around the Internet? Whatever your subject, find out what folks are saying online using Omgili, a… Read more

MyYouTube

sree sreenivasan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:42:33 +0000

I recently sent around a YouTube video I had created about one of my journalism heroes, Reggie Stuart, corporate recruiter for McClatchy. You can see the piece and video about Stuart at this link – or… Read more

Tracking Web Buzz

Jonathan Dube — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:38:44 +0000

The increasing popularity of sites that let users submit, save and vote for Web pages they find online means that journalists have great new tools at their fingertips for finding story ideas.

Sites like… Read more

Tracking Media Changes

sree sreenivasan — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:05:37 +0000

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Free Online Courses from the BBC

Jonathan Dube — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:36:45 +0000

The BBC has one of the deepest training departments of any journalism organization in the world. Fortunately, thanks to the generosity of the BBC and British taxpayers, many of the BBC’s training courses are available… Read more