Orlando Sentinel’s new A.M. news team
January 31, 2007
The Orlando Sentinel has created a new “A.M. news team” — a group of reporters, visual journalists, editors and Web producers whose job it is to update OrlandoSentinel.com early in the morning and throughout the day.
Florida paper launches hyper-local site
January 31, 2007
The Florida-Times Union is launching a new hyper-local site covering Clay County called My Clay SUN.
The site and companion section (delivered Thursday through Sunday) will give readers a chance to talk about what’s going on around them in blogs and other formats.
“The people of Clay County deserve a good local product,” said Robin Quillon, special projects director at the Times-Union. “My Clay SUN will be a real, deep look at the community.”
Steve Yelvington says some elements will be very similar to Bluffton Today (also run by Yelvington’s Morris Digital Works), but there also will be some significant differences.
Roanoke Times planning BigLickU.com
January 31, 2007
Roanoke Times is going to be launching a new user-generated social networking site called BigLickU.com.
YouTube Clone Script
January 30, 2007
In case you hadn’t noticed, YouTube clones are popping up all over the place.
This site offers a script it claims enables you to make your own clone.
Chronicle podcasts reader calls
January 29, 2007
Here’s an interesting podcasting idea: The San Francisco Chronicle has created a new podcast, “Correct Me If I’m Wrong,” that features readers’ voice mails.
You can also find a couple of remixed versions in the comments section of Engadget here.
Really clever idea.
Digital Edge Award winners
January 29, 2007
The Digital Edge Award winners for this year were announced. Congratulations to Steve Yelvington for winning the Online Innovator Award.
Here is the complete list of winners of the Digital Edge Awards.
Interactive analysis of State of the Union
January 29, 2007
MSNBC.com produced a nice interactive analysis of the 2007 State Of The Union address, in which you can navigate directly to clips of the different subjects, read transcripts, post your own comments and check out tag clougs that represents the frequency of use of certain key words in sections of the speech. “Small, grey words are the least used; medium-sized, blue words are used somewhat more frequently; big, red words are the most used and likely correspond to the over-riding themes in the speech.”
John Stewart on NYTimes.com’s video obituaries
January 29, 2007
Here’s what John Stewart has to say about reading The New York Times online and its new video obituaries.
“Behold the future of media,” he says… “Maybe soon we’ll all be able to download video obituaries: iBits.
Full L.A. Times web report
January 29, 2007
Here is the full report by Los Angeles Times editors that led to these changes.
Excerpt:
Our approach to website content is, in some ways, as backward as our technology.
Successful sites attract and retain readers with news that is of-the-moment and constantly refreshed; with easy-to-use video and audio; with opportunities to interact with journalists and fellow readers; and with easily searchable stores of information.
Free Multimedia Training Seminar
January 29, 2007
The Knight New Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships for journalists to attend this expenses-paid seminar that combines practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing.