Andrew Beaujon
June 5, 2013
12:34 pm
There were few specifics in the Chicago Sun-Times' announcement that it had
laid off its photographers and
tasked its reporters with capturing photos and video via iPhone. For instance: How in the heck will reporters capture quality video if they have little or no video experience?
One possible answer may be found at The Washington Post, which has deputized some of its reporters to create videos using an iOS app called
Videolicious. Post deputy editor of video Jonathan Forsythe stresses that while the paper does "not have any plans for Videolicious to ever replace our high-quality video stories shot and reported by our video department," some of its journalists have made popular Web-ready videos since it began training staff to use the tool late last year.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
4:41 pm
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Joshua Gillin
May 16, 2013
2:53 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 25, 2013
2:41 pm
NPR officially moves into a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. today, five years after it
bought the property and began planning for the move.
NPR had been based in a narrow triangular building in the Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood since 1994. The new headquarters is a historically preserved, four-story warehouse from the 1920s, joined with a new seven-story office tower on North Capitol Street. It offers
much more space, including "a two-story open newsroom with broadcast and production studios," as well as
views of the Capitol.
The historic NPR sign was relocated to the new building Monday morning.
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 14, 2013
2:40 pm
Scripps Howard Foundation
Spencer S. Hsu won the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for investigative reporting in this year's Scripps Howard Awards,
announced Thursday. Hsu's
articles on forensic science "exposed the Department of Justice's use of flawed data in more than 20,000 criminal convictions," the awards text reads.
Other winners include Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune
for their series on flame retardant furniture, Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio Express-News
for her photojournalism, and the Denver Post for
its breaking-news coverage of the July 2012 Aurora, Colo., theater shootings. The New York Times won in the
digital innovation category for "Snow Fall." The Post's Aurora coverage and "Snow Fall"
also both won ASNE awards.
Previously:
SABEW, Selden Ring, SND winners announced as awards season heats up |
Austin Tice, David Corn win Polk Awards
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 7, 2013
1:31 pm
Washington Post
Doug Feaver "will serve as an advocate for readers, responding to their questions and concerns," the Post
announced today.
- Doug Feaver
Feaver was a career Postie -- a reporter and editor
for 29 years on the Business, Metro and National desks. He then became executive editor of washingtonpost.com in 1998 and retired in 2005. He stayed involved for a few more years with a blog called dot.comments that responded to reader comments on the site.
The Post
just ended its ombudsman program, replacing it with this new reader representative. Unlike Patrick Pexton and other Post ombudsmen of the past, the reader rep is a Post employee (not an independent contractor) and will not have a regular weekly print column.
It seems the primary outlet of expression for Feaver and assistant reader representative Alison Coglianese will be a blog on washingtonpost.com. Feaver is on Twitter (
@feaverdb), but has barely used it since 2011.
Related: Washington City Paper writer
appoints himself as the Post's new ombudsman
Previously:
Pexton: Ombudsman can get answers from reporters who won’t answer readers
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 4, 2013
3:28 pm
The Huffington Post |
Slate
Juliet Eilperin is switching from The Washington Post's environment beat to its
"online strike force" in politics. Rest easy, those of you concerned by The New York Times' decision to
shutter its Green blog not long after
closing down its environment pod -- the move doesn't reflect a change in the number of people the Post will throw at environment coverage.
"Darryl Fears is still on the environment beat for us and Juliet's position will be backfilled," Post spokesperson Kris Coratti writes to Poynter in an email, using the latter term to indicate Eilperin's opening will likely be filled by someone within the company. Eilperin, she adds, "is also taking her expertise with her -- she will be reporting on the debate over climate change and environmental policy from her White House perch."
Will Oremus
counts some of "the 65-odd other Times blogs that did not get the axe":
Five blogs on culture and media, including “The Carbetbagger,” about awards shows; “After Deadline: Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style;” and “Media Decoder,” a media-industry blog that so far has not seen fit to cover the Times’ own elimination of its “Green” blog.
The Post
does not have a science blog.
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 1, 2013
10:18 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 1, 2013
7:51 am
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.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 28, 2013
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