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Online Journalism – The Journalist's Toolbox
May 12th, 2012Data Visualization Tutorial
Examples, steps and video of how to create data visualizations
Society for New Communications Research
Nieman Journalism Lab
A project of Harvard University.
Cyberjournalist.net: Ethics and Credibility
Feed of stories and blog posts on web ethics issues, etc.
Invisible Inkling
Blog from journalist Ryan Sholin.
Knight Citizen News Network
Interactive map of community news sites.
Web-Strategist: Social Networking Statistics, 2009
Old Media New Tricks
Run by journalists from the Chicago Tribune and Austin American-Statesman, this site offers hands-on advice from many in media who using social networking and Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. The site also offers great blogging tips.
Friend or Follow
A helpful database for tracking Twitter followers and to track who’s following you.
Tweetake
Lets you back up your followers and people you are following.
Topify
Receive an e-mail notification that someone is following you on Twitter. It includes information about that person (how many followers, updates, etc.)
NAA: Imagining the Future of Newspapers Blog
The Online Timeline
From David Carlson at the University of Florida.
George Mason University: Center for History and New Media
Liquid Newsroom
Future of Journalism Lab blog on mobile trends and other industry news.
Scoop.it
Create online magazines with this curation tool. Works like a combination of Storify and Paper.li.
TinDeck.com
Free .MP3 uploading, hosting and sharing. Works similar to SoundCloud.
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National Geographic: How to Take Pictures with a Camera Phone
EyeTracking Study: How People Look at Your Facebook Page
Mashable: Web Typography 101
Breakdown of web-safe fonts.
Delicious: Great SoundSlides Examples
Examples from Regina McCombs at the Poynter Institute.
Topsy.com
Twitter search that doesn’t suck.
Twitter: A Producer’s Guide
A video Twitter primer of great examples of how to incorporate social media into a broadcast. A combination of news and TV shows.
Jupiter Communications
Jupiter Communications provides research on Internet commerce. Jupiter’s research, which is solely focused on the Internet economy, provides clients with comprehensive views of industry trends, forecasts and best practices.
Society for News Design: Multimedia Toolkit
A great collection of resources, many of them free, to help journalists develop great stories online. Resources include audio, video, charts, mapping, databases and more. This is a must-bookmark and a great resource for student journalists learning to develop content for the Web.
Journerdism.com
This site is a collection of news, tools and links targeted to the online news industry. The site, which offers and RSS, is a good quick reference for industry trends. It’s run by Will Sullivan, the award-winning Interactive Director of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Online News Association
Good online newsletter with dot-com studies, more.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers
RTDNA: Social Media Guidelines
Radio TV Digital News Association established guidelines for using Twitter and Facebook.
Internet Newsroom
A good newsletter on how journalists should use the Web.
HTML Writers Guild
Links, online courses and more.
Next Level of News
Great blog about online storytelling, social media and other trends.
Lanyrd
A social conference directory. Think of it as an IMDB for conferences.
Association of Internet Professionals
Google Public Data Explorer
Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand.
Cyberjournalist.net: 12 Great Tips for Digital Startups
Seven Things You Need to Know About How People Read Online
Font Dragr
Browser based tool that checks for web-friendly fonts. Just drag and drop!
Newsonomics
Site that accompanies Ken Doctor’s book by the same title. Explores the emerging business of digital news and how it shapes what we read.
ScoopIt: Top Web Sites for Journalists
SendSpace
Send/share large video files.
Best Practices for Engaging Facebook Users
Ifttt.com
Organize your social media and other online accounts.
Jeremy Caplan’s Useful Sites
Apps, websites and other tools.
Data Miner UK
Site helps you develop ideas for data-based online journalism projects.
Talking New Media Blog
A daily chronicle of Internet, mobile and tablet publishing news, information and opinion.
Social Media Today
A daily chronicle of Internet, mobile and tablet publishing news, information and opinion.
Reynolds Institute: Mobile Journalism Tools Guide
Great list of resources from Will Sullivan.
Ten Basic Tools to Improve Your Online Journalism
Tumblr Tutorial for Journalists
Original Online Coverage of 9/11
Archives of stories, pages, screengrabs and more.
Crowdmap
Helps you collect data from web, cell phones, etc., aggregate it and visualize it on a map.
W3 Web Tutorials
Learn HTML, CSS, etc.
Ushahidi
Open source code for interactive mapping.
MyComputerIP.com
An easy way to check your network/computer IP address.
101 Ways to Improve Your Media Website
Journalism Journeyman
Great blog full of industry tips and resources.
25 Essential iPad Apps for Journalists
CNN: Newsroom Exposed
A look at the extensive process of getting a story from the newsroom to the Web.
J-Log
A great weblog that covers current journalism topics.
Tr.im
Shortens URLs and provides diagnostics/stats on hits.
House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
ClickZ: Seven Qualities of Good Online Writing
Time Magazine: 50 Best Web Sites
HotSpotList.com
Search this database by city or state in the U.S., or several other countries for places where you can connect to the Internet without plugging your laptop into the wall. Includes airports, restaurants, etc.
NPR: As a Matter of Fact Blog
Blog from the news librarians at National Public Radio.
Center for Media Innovation and Research
University of Florida innovation.
First Monday
A peer-reviewed Internet Journal, looks at various studies and results that have recently been done on the topic of journalism and the Internet.
Media Visions
Great research with a strong section on critical-thinking skills.
SpinSpotter
An interesting piece of software tool that claims to expose news spin and bias, misuse of sources, and suspect factual support. Uses algorithms to spot spin keywords on sites you surf .
Knight Citizen News Network
Resources for citizen media.
Center for Citizen Media
More resources for citizen media.
Press Think
Blog from NYU’s Jay Rosen on new media and other timely topics.
TownNews.com
Helps more than 600 newspapers — dailies and weeklies in 48 states publish on the World Wide Web. Operated by International Newspaper Network, which was founded in 1989 to help community newspapers deal with new technology, the site offers tips, stories and a newsletter on tech trends.
NICAR
National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
IRE
Investigative Reporters and Editors site offers many free and charged resources.
Hacks/Hackers Help Page
Tips and tricks for spreadsheets, databases and other online apps questions.
Tips for Journalists Who Want to Code
Mapperz Mapping News
A blog about mapping.
URL Appraisal
Find out how much your web address is worth.
Ben Franklin Project: Web Tools
A great list of free online storytelling and multimedia tools.
Power Reporting
List of syllabi and tools from CAR courses across the nation
Poynter.org’s New Media Bibliography
Trends, ethics, design, resources galore.
Top 10 Crimes of Online Writing
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF works to protect free expression and access to information online.
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
A not-for-profit organziation whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture.
Center for Digital Storytelling
Cyberjournalist: Newsroom Convergence Headlines
Stories on what’s happening with digital/print/broadcast news.
Flowing Data: 37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About
PC Magazine: 10 Ways Not To Be a Jerk Online
The Wayback Machine
A new version of Archive.org that searches screengrabs of old website designs.
Computer Newspaper Editors
A directory of hundreds of online news editors.
Journalismnet.com
Tutorials, links, story tips, government links. Great site!
Tweetblocker
Twitter spam filter.
WebSiteGrader
Evaluates your site based on SEO, design-friendliness, etc.
Hubspot
Evaluates your Web site’s SEO, design, etc.
Imbedding Almost Anything on Your Web Page
LetsGoDigital
Online magazine about digital imaging published in three editions (English, Spanish and Dutch).
Media Web Directory
A great collection of links to media-related sites.
100 of the Best Authors on Twitter
Flowing Data: The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
ONA: Best Audio Slideshows 2011
User picks. Great examples for newsrooms, classrooms.
Las Vegas News Now 8: Desert Underwater
Multimedia look at foreclosures in Vegas.
Ragan: 14 Apps That Will Jumpstart Your Writing
Graphic Novel Reporter
News, reviews, blog and more.
CyberAtlas.Internet.com
Internet statistics and marketing information.
ONA: Interactive Narratives
From the Online News Association, this site highlights great online media packages.
Mastering Multimedia
A blog about photojournalism and online journalism.
MultimediaShooter.com
A photojournalism site that offers tips, news and commentary about digital storytelling.
KobreGuide.com
Guide to the best in multimedia and video journalism.
Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide
From the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Future Journalism Project
Blog about the industry, tech equipment, issues in online journalism, etc.
ConsumerWebWatch.org
It’s mission is to “investigate, inform and improve the credibility of information published on the World Wide Web.”
Poynter.org: New Media Timeline
Background from the 1960s to the 1990s.
The Digital Publisher
A new column on online publishing.
WebArchivist.org
Site is indexing Sept. 11 content.
Yahoo! Picks: News Media Best of the Web
The 21 top media sites, according to Yahoo!
Purdue University Web 2.0 Tools
Great categorized list of interactive Web tools.
The Internet Blueprint
Developing legislative bills to build a better Internet.
JForum
Site closed May 2001 but still has content up.
Forbes.com: Best of the Web
Tracks trends in many e-industries and includes lists of links.
Google Zeitgeist
An archive of what people are searching for online.
Multimedia Evangelist Blog
Great tips on products, tools and gadgets.
Yahoo! List of Most Viewed News Content (U.S.)
National Education Technology Writers Association
Radio and Internet Newsletter
A great site developed by Kurt Hanson.
Media Survey
Tracks Web site performance. A good newsletter that offers “expert tech media analysis.”
Netratings.com
Like the Nielsen TV ratings, this site offers traffic information for the top Web sites.
the lowercase world of sreenath sreenivasan
associate professor of professional practice administrator, online journalism awards co-founder, south asian journalists association.
Small Business Websites That Work
This is the companion site to my book of the same name and includes lots of helpful background material for writers researching how company Web sites can be made effective. There are a couple of full chapters available for download (including an internet backgrounder called “Getting to Know the Internet”) and lots of links for businessmen and researchers.
Top Documentary Films
Watch online documentaries for free.
The Internet Society: A Brief History of the Internet
Wall Street Journal All Things Digital
BuzzMachine
Tech blog from journalist Jeff Jarvis.
ClickZ Internet Statistics and Demographics
Andrew Holovaty
Site of innovative Chicago web developer Andrew Holovaty, who developed Django, etc.
Institute for New Media Studies
University of Texas: International Symposium on Online Journalism
Video, papers, transcripts fromm pasty symposiums.
FCC: The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected
University of Maryland J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
Flot
Google program helps turn numbers into visual stories.
Journal of New Communications Research
Electronic Frontier Foundaton: Legal Guide for Bloggers
APME: “Local Readers and the Newsroom: The Online Credibility Gap”
PBS: MediaShift
From PBS’ Mark Glaser.
Library of Congress; National Digital Information Infrastructure
and Preservation Program
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
Editing for the Web
Covers design and editing tips, as well as training for web editors and offers pointers on how to make web products work.
10000Words.net: Where Journalism and Technology Meet
A blog on technology and multimedia storytelling, written by Mark S. Luckie, a print journalist who studied multimedia journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has produced multimedia and interactive projects for Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and Contra Costa Times (Ca.).
Web Page Design for Designers
This site is helps graphic designers make the transition from print to the web.
Knight Digital Media Center Tutorials
Great training tips, ranging from video software to data visualization.
Web Review
Targeted to designers, this site covers various aspects of developing a web site, developing a database, news and Web tools and include columns about creating a site.
BBC: How Big Really? Dimensions
Gives spatial context for events by presenting them against the background of a place (city or ZIP code) whose dimensions a reader understands. Very similar to IfItWereMyHome.com during the BP Gulf oil spill.
Stanford: Journalism in the Age of Data
A great video tutorial on how to use data visualization online as a journalist.
Video: History of the Internet
Mashable: How Social Media Is Changing the Business of TV
Poynter: How to Assess the Quality of a Web Site
A great video tutorial on how to use data visualization online as a journalist.
SocMap.com
Location-based data mapping tool. Free on the Web.
Error Level Analysis
Enter the web address of an online photo and this free site analyzes how much Photoshop work has been done to the photo.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Scribd.com
A site that invites journalists to publish their work and reach new audiences.
Dot Mobi
Test your Web site’s content to see how it would appear on a mobile browser.
Knight Digital Media Center: Connecting with Communities of Difference
The Future of News
A blog by University of North Carolina professor Ryan Thornburg.
Citizen Media Law Project Legal Guide
Search by keyword or state-by-state map.
Knight Digital Media Center Newsletter
Federal Web Managers Council
Offers guidelines to managing U.S. government Web sites. Helpful for following trends on how agencies are communicating with people and the media.
TrendsMap.com
A great visual mashup that allows you to pinpoint Twitter topics trending across the country.
Twitter Chat Etiquette
Great list of tips from Jennifer Hellum.
What the Hashtag?
Look up what various hashtags mean in this database. Great for finding Twitter chats.
Global Online Survey: Who Blogs Online?
Research from the Knight Digital Media Center, April 2010.
TwitterFall.com
Track trends on a specific topic or newsmaker.
Monitter
Great for tracking trends on a specific topic or newsmaker.
Datamasher.org
Charts government stats and other data.
Data.gov
A government data mashup that is an initiative of the Obama administration.
Spot.Us
Warning: There may ethical concerns with content produced on this site! This community funded journalism site is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. The public can commission journalists to do investigations on important and perhaps overlooked stories. All donations are tax deductible and if a news organization buys exclusive rights to the content, your donation will be reimbursed.
Storify and Social Media Curation Skills
Great tips and examples from the Knight Digital Media Center.
Five Rules for Journalists Using Storify
From Staci Baird from San Francisco State University.
Cyberjournalist: Half of Americans Watch Video Online
Cyberjournalist: Innovative Journalism on Tumblr
Emphas.is
Crowdsourced funding for photojournalism projects, similar to Spot.us.
Play the News
This interactive game helps readers understand current events and news. It’s created by a company called Impact Games.
Journalism Research Social Network
Videos, blogs, discussion and other networking tools to cover what areas of online journalism you’re researching. Site is founded by Paul Bradshaw from Great Britain.
Information Valet Project
From the Reynolds Institute at the University of Missouri, the Information Valet Project is organizing an information-industry collaborative to build, own and operate a shared-user network layered upon the basic Internet.
MediaJobPod.org
A job/internship site tailored to college students looking for multimedia jobs. Watch imbedded videos from professionals on how to find jobs, interview, write cover letters, etc. If you are interested in Web reporting/production or TV production, take advantage of the advice on this site.
SnappyTV
How to pull live TV clips off the web and share in social media and embed in Storify.
KeepVid.com
Download streaming video from YouTube and other sites to edit and use in your video.
SearchEngineLand: What is SEO?
Video explains what search engine optimization is and how it works.
History of Communication
Includes mentions of web, social media near the end.
30-Plus Free Multimedia Editing Tools
Aviary Myna Audio Editor
A great substitution for Audacity and Garage Band.
Directory of All Congressional Twitter Handles
Sepiatown: Mapped Historical Photos, Film and Audio
Upload historical images by location. Then/now tool compares Google Streetview images along with images from the past.
LucidChart
Build imbedded flow charts for free.
Gephi
Open source graph visualization tool.
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My English teachers were the highlight of high school
May 10th, 2012
By Bryan Toussaint, CNN
Editor’s note: In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week this week, we’re asking our colleagues at CNN to share their stories of teachers who have inspired them. Bryan Toussaint is an associate producer at CNN.com.
I hated high school, or maybe I simply hated adolescence. I found the years between ages 15 and 18 particularly annoying and inconvenient. It was a lot like walking through the security at the airport. Most of us would like to avoid the procedure but going through the experience is the only way to get you closer to where you want to go.
Fortunately, my 11th and 12th grade English teachers, Ms. Kappel and Ms. King, were there to make the adolescence experience a bit more tolerable. They introduced me to Bigger Thomas, Ralph Ellison’s invisible man, Holden Caulfield, Basil Duke Lee and other characters that would serve as my surrogate friends.
Many of these characters dealt with the same coming of age issues I faced at that time. Ms. Kappel and Ms. King taught me how to appreciate great literature and through those book reports taught me how to organize my thoughts, how to be a more critical thinker. I’ll readily admit that “Invisible Man”, “Native Son” and “The Catcher in theRye” were part of the curriculum. But I most appreciated the books and short stories they recommended I read outside of what was required, particularly the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I thank Ms. King for that.
Ms. Kappel deserves much of the credit, or blame, depending on your point of view, for my decision to pursue a journalism or some other Liberal Arts career. (The D’s and C minuses I earned in Algebra, Calculus and Chemistry were also big factors in that process.) I’m an introvert. I can’t sing. I’m not particularly athletic and I won’t dance unless intoxicated. Writing was always my primary means of expression, my means of “sharing my gifts” as she would say. Ms. Kappel encouraged me to do so through journal writing.
At the time I didn’t really understand why she was interested in my thoughts about the world. And while she didn’t always agree with the opinions of a wet-behind-the-ears 16-year-old, she constantly told me she appreciated my thought process and the way I chronicled the world around me.
In addition to encouraging me to write, she was the first teacher who genuinely appeared to care about who I was as a person and what I had to say. She challenged to me to do my very best and frequently got after me for coasting my way to a B when she felt I had A+ potential. Ms. Kappel was tough but very fair. She was someone who sought to motivate me by identifying and exploiting my positives to their fullest while acknowledging my weaknesses and challenging me to improve. Ms. Kappel probably would have been a great boss. I know she was a great teacher.
Do you know an inspirational teacher? Schools of Thought wants to hear your story. Email us at SchoolsofThought@cnn.com or send us an iReport! You may see your story on Schools of Thought!
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Reporter, fired for stripping, charges gender discrimination
May 10th, 2012Los Angeles (CNN) — A part-time stripper fired from her full-time newspaper job covering Texas high society claims she’s a victim of gender discrimination.
Sarah Tressler, 30, filed a complaint this week asking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate the Houston Chronicle’s decision to let her go after another paper revealed her second job.
Tressler covered high society, general assignments, human interest stories, men’s and women’s fashion and other stories for the newspaper for two months, Tressler said at a Los Angeles news conference Thursday. But she “very rarely” worked as a dancer, a skill that helped her pay for college, she said.
“Sometimes I would just go in for three hours at a time to get a workout in because stage rotation, if you’re doing it in 7-inch heels, is a really good way to get a workout in,” Tressler said. “And I didn’t have a gym membership. So, on days off I might just go in there in the afternoon and do a couple stage rotations and knock it out.”
A rival newspaper, tipped off by an online blog titled “Diary of an Angry Stripper” she wrote anonymously, published a story about her background in March.
She was soon told by an editor that she was fired for not disclosing her dancing experience on her job application, Tressler said. “There was no question on the form that covered my dancing. I answered the questions on the form honestly.”
“I was very upset that I was fired, because I had been told by many editors that I was doing a good job,” Tressler said.
Gloria Allred, a Beverly Hills lawyer known for championing high-profile cases involving women’s rights, is representing her. She called the firing gender discrimination, which is covered by federal law.
“Most exotic dancers are female, and therefore to terminate an employee because they had previously been an exotic dancer would have an adverse impact on women, since it is a female-dominated occupation,” Allred said.
The newspaper management remained mum about Tressler’s charge. “We have not seen the complaint and thus cannot comment,” Chronicle spokeswoman Naomi Engel said Thursday.
Tressler, who has a master’s degree in journalism, said that when she decided to dance to pay for college, she didn’t think it would keep her from pursuing the career she was trying to build.
“Some young women will use dancing as a way to make ends meet while they study to prepare for the career that they hope to be able to have for the rest of their lives,” Tressler said. “These women should not have to live in fear that once they acquire a position in the career that they have worked hard to achieve, that their past work experience as a dancer will jeopardize that position.”
She broke no laws by dancing, Allred said, and it “does not, has not and will not affect her ability to perform her job as a journalist.”
Tressler said has already found a new writing job in Houston for a publication she declined to name. She insisted she has no plan to parlay the media attention into a job covering high society in Los Angeles.
“I really like Houston,” she said.
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Michener Awards Foundation announces Fellowship winners
May 10th, 2012
OTTAWA, May 10, 2012 /CNW/ – The Michener Awards Foundation today
announced the winners of the 2012 Michener-Deacon Fellowships.
The first Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education is awarded
to Melanie Coulson, senior online editor at The Ottawa Citizen. She
will spend the winter term in 2013 at Carleton University’s School of
Journalism.
Laura Eggertson, a freelance journalist based in Ottawa, is the winner
of the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism. Ms
Eggertson will investigate Aboriginal Youth Suicide as a significant
health crisis in Canada. A former Nieman Fellowship winner, she plans
to research and write a series of print and on-line articles, and
create a radio documentary, based on both positive and negative
experiences of Aboriginal communities dealing with suicide.
Ms Coulson will teach an undergraduate reporting course at Carleton and
will conduct research into the growing phenomenon of audience
participation in the journalism produced by media enterprises and will
share her research and experience with students. Having made the shift
to digital media more than a decade ago, Ms Coulson has also been
responsible for community engagement projects in the national capital
region for her employer.
The Investigative Journalism fellowship is supported by the BMO Financial
Group. It allows a journalist to devote up to four months for a reporting project.
Applicants are required to undertake a project that aspires to the
criteria of the annual Michener Award for journalism with its emphasis
on making an impact for the public good.
The Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education, supported by
the Michener Awards Foundation and the Family of the late Paul S.
Deacon, is dedicated to the advancement of the education of Canadian journalists.
The winner will spend time at a Canadian university journalism school,
teaching or mentoring students, and also pursue personal education
interests.
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of
Canada, will host the Michener Awards ceremony at Rideau Hall on June
12 where the Michener-Deacon Fellowships will be presented and the
winner of the 2011 Michener Award will be announced. .
The Michener Award, founded in 1970 by the late Roland Michener, then
Governor-General, goes to a news organization. The judges’ decisions
are heavily influenced by the degree of public benefit generated by the
print and broadcast entries submitted for consideration.
Judges for the 2011 Michener-Deacon Fellowship
Lindsay Crysler (chair), former managing editor of The Gazette,
Montreal, former director of journalism, Concordia University,
Montreal; Clinton Archibald, associate professor, professor of public
ethics, St. Paul University, Ottawa; Michael Goldbloom, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishops
University, Lennoxville, Quebec, and former publisher of The Gazette
and the Toronto Star; Lynne Van Luven, associate professor of
journalism and creative non-fiction, University of Victoria; Erin
Steuter, chair of the sociology department, Mount Allison University,
Sackville, NB.
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Tweets for Keeps: April 29 – May 5, 2012 – Journalism Accelerator
May 9th, 2012Tweets for Keeps: April 29 – May 5, 2012
The Journalism Accelerator is not responsible for the content we post here, as excerpts from the source, or links on those sites. The JA does not endorse these sites or their products outright but we sure are intrigued with what they’re up to.
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Ben Huh's Plan for Journalism: More Feelings. More Crazy …
May 9th, 2012
The news, with cats. (icanhascheezburger.com)
Lolcat magnate Ben Huh continues to offer only the faintest dribs and drabs regarding Circa, his double-David-funded new startup. The Nieman Journalism Lab cornered him at ROFLcon, and apparently Mr. Huh would like more “dissemination of value-added interpretation of the facts.” He parses the buzzwords like so:
If you look at great journalists, it’s not because they were able to convey the facts, it’s because they were able to convey part of the emotion on the things that are subjective to the right audience. Like Anderson Cooper down in New Orleans. That was his break-out moment and he was like, “this is B.S.” He kind of went of the rails a little bit, and became a guy who decided that he was a guy who was going to say what he wanted to say. I want more of that in journalism.
If that makes about as much sense to you as listening to an adderall-addled tween, good. That’s exactly what Mr. Huh is looking for: “I’m looking for publications that are like teenagers. I think this is the part of the process where if you know who you are, then you might not make it.” Success!
It also sounds like he’s about ready to throw down with Buzzfeed:
I think what Buzzfeed is doing what Huffington Post did with SEO. I don’t think what they’re doing is meme-like, I think they’re just creating social bait.
Meme-served, you guys.
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Seattle Times reporter, ex-Microsoft worker win James Beard honors
May 7th, 2012Seattle Times reporter Maureen O’Hagan has won a James Beard Foundation Award for “Feeling the Weight: The Emotional Battle to Control Kids’ Diet.”
O’Hagan’s series of stories, which won in the health and well-being category, ran last June in Pacific Northwest magazine.
The Beard Awards, announced Friday, are presented each spring in New York City.
“Childhood obesity is an important topic — and a sensitive one,” O’Hagan said. “We’re so honored that families struggling with weight issues shared their stories with us, and with our readers, in such a heartfelt way. Their candor is what made this project such a success.”
The stories detailed how children are bombarded with messages promoting sugary and starchy foods, even in schools, and steps they could take to battle obesity.
“It’s gratifying to see Maureen’s work receive this prestigious recognition. This was important journalism that gave families in our community new tools to talk about food and health,” said Dave Boardman, Seattle Times executive editor.
The stories were produced under a grant by the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, which is administered by the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships through the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
Also honored was former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, who won two awards, one for the best cookbook and the other for cooking from a professional point of view. His six-volume “Modernist Cuisine” was released last year.
The awards, which cover all aspects of the food industry — including restaurant designers and architects and more — are the highest honor for food and beverage professionals working in North America.
For chefs, they are the equivalent of an Academy Award. There are at least 12 James Beard-winning chefs in Seattle.
The Beard Foundation is named for the late James Beard, a Portland, Ore.-born chef and food writer, considered one of the aficionados of American cooking.
Nancy Bartley: 206-464-8522 or nbartley@seattletimes.com.
On Twitter @BartleyNews.
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Round Earth Media: Next-Generation Journalism | Moroccan …
May 6th, 2012
Moroccan and American journalism students meeting for the first time in February 2012, Rabat, Morocco
At Round Earth Media (REM), we’re all about partnership. Too often, American journalists parachute into a country for just a few weeks of reporting, failing to grasp the nuances and complexities of what is, for them, a foreign country. Round Earth Media journalists work differently. REM’s American journalists collaborate with the most promising young journalists in the countries where REM is reporting. Together, in equal partnership, they produce stories for top-tier media in the U.S. and abroad. It’s a new model for producing original, reliable, unbiased reporting.
The Moroccan-American Journalism Partnership is the first time that this model has been applied to student journalists. For more than two months, six student pairs — an American partnered with a Moroccan — worked to produce what one of the Moroccan journalists called “a mosaic bowl of articles” ranging, from the topic of racism in Morocco to the Soulaliyate women’s movement. Vital to its success was the support and enthusiasm for this program from ISIC professor Khadija Zizi and her colleagues at ISIC (L’Institut Supérieure de l’Information et de la Communication, the journalism school in Rabat, Morocco).
Aside from the journalism they produced, the students say they learned a lot about their mutual societies and cultures. Mehdi Sejjari, one of the Moroccan journalism students, was paired with American journalism student Eboni Bell to write a profile story on a February 20th activist (Morocco’s “Arab Spring” movement). But, well into the project, the activist had second thoughts and refused to agree to be interviewed if the article was published in Morocco (the Moroccan students are publishing their articles in a student on-line magazine). Such is the nature of doing journalism in Morocco, challenges which the students learned about first-hand. Mehdi Sejjari collected comments from some of the students and starts with his partner, Eboni Bell.
The success of this partnership is confirmed by students who participated in the program. “I would not have been able to conduct interviews without my partner,” says Eboni Bell. “I enjoyed communicating my ideas to him and listening to him about what directions to take for the article, and I would recommend this partnership for future programs.”
Princess Goodridge, another of the American journalism students, says, “I have benefited a lot. I have not only learned from my Moroccan counterparts as they have also learned from me; but I have also gained lifelong friendships that I will cherish always”.
Youssra El Hassani, a Moroccan journalism student who partnered with American journalism student Marie von Hafften, said, “It’s the first time for me to work in pairs, so we were always together to discuss every detail. The idea of pairs is very important because sometimes we had to interview people speaking only French or Arabic and I had to translate”.
“Not only have we been able to pick up valuable journalistic skills from each other, we have been able to exchange our cultures and become great friends,” says Antinnea, Skipwith, another American journalism student. “I think working in partnership is the best way to work.”
The program has finished its first edition, but it seems that the impact of this partnership will not fade. It’s not just a professional or academic experience, but rather a real project of collaboration between Moroccans and Americans.
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