By Jake Batsell Candidates will be slinging their share of tall tales and fudgy facts at tonight’s GOP primary debate in the Texas governor’s race. And on the real-time Web, it’s more challenging than ever for journalists to sort the truth from the spin. Tonight, as Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison […]
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January 20th, 2010
News:rewired coverage and new revenue models for news
Just a couple of quick highlights that you don’t want to miss: News:rewired: If you weren’t in London last week for this one-day conference, fear not, they’ve got you covered. The folks at Journalism.co.uk who organized the event also did a bang-up job covering the event for those who couldn’t be there in person. The […]
January 16th, 2010
Aggregating local content responsibly with Drupal
By Rick Martin Starting a website and convincing users to participate can be difficult. People can only visit a handful of websites in their daily browsing, so if your website isn’t one of them why not allow them to contribute from the places that they prefer to go? That could be their own blog, or […]
January 14th, 2010
There is no future for sports coverage that is expensive and slow
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Jay Huerbin, a journalism major at the University of Pittsburgh and intern at Serra Media. You can read more from Jay on his blog and follow him at @jayhuerbin. By Jay Huerbin As both a journalism student and the sports editor at my university’s student newspaper, I take the […]
January 13th, 2010
“Living Galápagos”: A rare species of digital storytelling
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Jake Batsell, an assistant professor in journalism at Southern Methodist University and faculty adviser to the Daily Mustang. You can read more from Jake on his blog and follow him on Twitter at @jbatsell. By Jake Batsell Few of us have experienced the one-of-a-kind wonders of the Galápagos Islands. […]
Tags: January 12th, 2010
The time to use new technology in journalism conferences is now
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Pierce Presley, self-proclaimed “Emperor of the Pierce Presley Web Empire,” and a newspaper guy frantically trying to learn new media skills. You can follow him on Twitter at @piercepresley. By Pierce Presley I’m in the final semester of my masters program, and I’m working on a capstone professional project […]
January 11th, 2010
Why the designer holds the key to the future of journalism
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Adam Westbrook, a multimedia journalist based in London. You can read more from Adam on his blog, adamwestbrook.wordpress.com, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamWestbrook. By Adam Westbrook Why doesn’t the average consumer pay for news online? We know all the obvious answers: the fact news is free elsewhere; […]
January 9th, 2010
In Iceland, WikiLeaks could become a more powerful tool for journalists
Editor’s Note: Today’s Guest writer is Alexander Hotz, a multimedia journalist based in New York City. You can follow him on Twitter at @NYCtechnology. By Alexander Hotz Blame it on the holiday season or the industry’s own shortcomings, but last week the American press missed a major announcement concerning what could become the future of […]
January 8th, 2010
Too much information to follow? Build your own feed generator
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Rick Martin, a Tokyo-based freelance writer. Read more from Rick at www.1rick.com/blog and follow him on Twitter at @1rick. I’m not a programmer. But these days I’m starting to see how some programming skills can really make a big difference to my productivity as a writer. As I pretty […]
January 7th, 2010
Using a public Wave to engage a news audience
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest writer is Hilary Fosdal, who is the Interactive Content Manager for Barrington Broadcasting in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. You can read her blog at http://hilaryfosdal.com and follow her @hilaryfosdal. By Hilary Fosdal Many people are still trying to figure out what to do with Google Wave technology. Not the folks at the […]
