Archive for the ‘Practical advice’ Category

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 [...]

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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; [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Ask focused questions of your data to get more usable answers

Editor’s note: Matt Neznanski (right) is today’s guest writer. You can read more about – and from – Matt on his site. By Matt Neznanski How many reporter’s meetings have you attended where every suggestion to use new technology or different ways to tell stories is met with resistance based on gut feelings about what [...]

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