PBS MediaShift looks at the changes at BusinessWeek magazine’s website, as it tries to stand out among business and financial news sites.
Technical skills needed in journalism jobs
What technical skills are media companies looking for in journalists? Eric Ulken, a producer at The Los Angeles Times and instructor at USC, took all the online job descriptions on JournalismJobs.com from this year, omitted the non-technical words (like “editor”, “seeks” and “self-starter”) and built a tagcloud out of the rest. Here’s what it looks [...]
Multimedia storytelling: A brothers’ journey from Mexico to America
The Record in Stockton, Calif., sent a reporter and photographer along as men from a village in southern Mexico returned home after picking tomatoes in the fields of San Joaquin County for two years. The five-part series, “And a song shall carry them home,” followed the brothers’ journey with more than words and photos on [...]
Report: How teens get news online
Teenagers aren’t much into following serious news online, but news organizations can –and should – cultivate their interest by learning how to catch their eyes, diminish their angst, go where they are on the Web, enlist parents and teachers in the cause and help them develop a news persona, according to a new study released [...]
