Mysterious Iran Protest Death Filmers Win Polk Award
February 16, 2010
The anonymous individuals responsible for recording the shooting death of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan at a June protest in Tehran, Iran, and uploading the video to the Internet, won the George Polk Award for Videography. The video became a rallying point for the reformist opposition in Iran. You can watch the video below (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT).
Interactive maps of Haiti quake damage
January 14, 2010
Here are some of the more interesting interactive maps created in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti by news sites.
How the web covered the Haitian earthquake
January 14, 2010
Here is a great roundup of the online coverage of the earthquake in Haiti from Robert Hernandez and Mark Luckie.
Haiti: A case study in real time news
January 14, 2010
Sky News journalist Emily Purser describes how the early coverage of Haiti unfolded using Twitter, Facebook and Skype..
Destruction in Haiti interactive
January 14, 2010
This feature from nytimes.com lets users zoom in on the images and examine up close some of the damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Simple but smart idea.
Social media key in Haiti earthquake coverage
January 13, 2010
Technology played a key role in early coverage of the earthquake in Haiti.
More great coverage of California wildfires
October 28, 2007
Two more great roundups of coverage, one from PBS’s Mark Glaser who has a great list of links, and one from Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore looking at the Union-Tribune’s great online coverage.
CNN.com’s Virginia Tech memorial
April 26, 2007
CNN.com has created a nice memorial site for the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings, with profiles of each of them that friends, family and others can add their comments to.
Eyewitness video of Virginia Tech shootings
April 16, 2007
CNN.com’s I-Report posted video sent in of the shootings at Virginia Tech that killed at least 30 people. The site also posted user photos from the scene.
Roanoke.com also posted video from Virginia Tech’s campus, collected by Martin Arvebro and Carl Nordin, two Swedish students who were visiting Virginia Tech’s campus.
The site also has a guestbook for the victims.
WSJ breaks news online first now
January 9, 2007
The Wall Street Journal plans to break most of its exclusives online from now on, The Washington Post reports. When the Journal learned that Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet would resign rather than make corporate-mandated budget cuts, it put the story online — prompting Baquet to confirm the news to his staff — and came back with a more detailed piece the next morning.
