News stations turn to Web to publish in hurricane aftermath
August 31, 2005
In addition to the News Orleans Time-Picuyane, which had to turn to the Web to publish it’s newspaper, two television stations, WNOL Channel 38, a WB affiliate, and WGNO Channel 26, an ABC affiliate, went off the air and instead are publishing reports via their web site, with both video and text updates.
New Orleans Times-Picayune publishes online only
August 30, 2005
Kudos to the New Orleans Times-Picayune for publishing an edition today after its offices were flooded. The newspaper was only able to publish online, though, posting PDFs to the Web site.
Since then, the staff has had to evacuate. A note on the site says, “The Times-Picayune was forced to evacuate our Howard Avenue newsroom Tuesday. We are setting up bureaus in Houma and in Baton Rouge to continue to provide coverage of this disaster. We will continue to publish the newspaper each day without interruption. We will make it available in PDF form on nola.com each morning around midnight.”
You can see Tuesday’s paper here…
Hurricane Katrina photoblog
August 30, 2005
CyberJournalist.net reader “Glenn” writes in: “In my research I’ve been posting numerous maps, images, imagery etc… relating to Katrina. I’m sure you’ll find it quite useful… see http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser.”
The Bare Bodkin
August 30, 2005
CyberJournalist.net Reader Tony Warrenton writes in, “The Bare Bodkin is a blog written by Cory Meacham for SignOnSanDiego, the online version of the San Diego Union-Tribune. It’s got some great writing and is both humorous and thought-provoking.”
Online plagiarism spotter
August 30, 2005
Concerned someone might be illegally copying your Web pages? Check out Copyscape. Simply enter a Web site address and a list of pages with copies of the content is shown. Copyscape says its advanced technology can locate stolen content even if the content has been significantly modified from its original form.
More hurricane Katrina news blogs
August 29, 2005
From The Times-Picayune
From SunHerald.com
From The Advocate and WBRZ News Louisiana (right on the home page)
USA Today
Another news site uses Google Maps for gas prices
August 29, 2005
Following The News & Observer’s idea of using Google Maps to display gas prices is The (Middletown, N.Y.) Times Herald-Record, which has created an even bigger regional map with gas prices for upstate New York.
BBC sends traffic elsewhere
August 29, 2005
Since the BBC introduced its Newstracker feature, which links stories to related headlines on other sites, the number of readers clicking though to stories on other sites has almost doubled.
In July, the feature let to 1,487,860 click-throughs to outside news sites, up from 847,816 in June.
“Linking out to other sites is fine by me,” says BBC news online editor Pete Clifton. “If it helps someone triangulate in the privacy of their own room, that’s fine by me, and we should always be confident that people will want to return to us.”
Citizens covering Hurricane Katrina
August 28, 2005
“Citizen journalists” coverage of Hurricane Katrina, via:
CNN photos | E-mails
MSNBC
NOLA
Florida Sun-Sentinel
And WWLTV is asking for photos.
Know of other citizen coverage? Post links here.
Blogging Hurricane Katrina
August 28, 2005
Here are some news blogs about Hurricane Katrina:
The Weather Channel Blog
CNN’s Miles O’Brien
WPMI’s David Glenn
WPMI’s Scott Walker