Fellowships for Knight Digital Media Center Tech Tools Workshops
October 9, 2008
The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California, Berkeley is accepting applications for 20 fellowships per workshop for editors and reporters to attend two training sessions that combine practical instruction in current and emerging technologies that impact news-gathering and reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing. Read more »
Switching from print to online
October 6, 2008
Poynter’s “Ask the Recruiter” has a question from someone who just made the switch from print to online and is wondering how best to showcase her work to potential future employers. Detroit Free Press recruiter Joe Grimm’s advice: digitally archived copies and printouts are OK, and collect data on how your decisions have helped increase traffic.
10 Emerging Technologies from ONA
September 26, 2008
Poynter’s Ellyn Angelotti has a great summary of 10 news innovations she discovered at the Online News Association conference.
Nieman Reports: Politics and new media
July 30, 2008
The latest issue of Nieman Reports has more than 20 articles about politics and new media — all online. Read more »
Seven Myths of Innovation
July 16, 2008
Krisztine “Z” Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation and Executive Director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, introduced “Seven Myths of Innovation” to newspaper editors at the Knight Leadership Conference this week. Read more »
Lessons From One Year of Blogging
July 15, 2008
Guest Post by Craig Stolz
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One year ago I launched this blog with a notion but no clue. The notion was that I wanted to make sense of the baffling, bad but somehow occasionally powerful stuff that was emerging under the aegis “Web 2.0.” [It has lately been usefully redubbed "social media"]. Read more »
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New ways to detect doctored photos
July 6, 2008
PBS reports on a “digital detective” inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked. Watch the video of the story and then take the test: Examine nine photographs and guess if they are fake or real.
Canada’s journalism schools emphasize multimedia
June 19, 2008
Canada’s journalism schools are putting more emphasis on online journalism and multimedia, The Financial Post reports. David Beers, founder of online news magazine theTyee.ca and unstructor at UBC, recommends keeping the following pointers in mind when students are job hunting… Read more »
Seven Traits of Highly Effective Community Managers
June 17, 2008
Tish Grier says community managers “should understand people well and be good at creating and maintaining relationships and ability to create relationships, regardless of which tools are available.”
8 simple rules for succeeding on the Web
June 12, 2008
Here are Jon Friedman’s eight simple rules to ensure success on the Internet. Read more »