Interactive journalism for students – on air
TweetAround this time last year I wrote on this blog about ‘Generation Audioboo’ and the opportunities for anyone entering the field of digital journalism. A year on, there are more free tools, and...
View ArticleFacebook: The New Rolodex for Journalists
Our sister site SocialTimes recently spoke to Vadim Lavrusik, manager of Facebook’s journalism program. Lavrusik talked about why Facebook is the Rolodex of today’s journalists and how they can use the...
View ArticleYour syllabus as a blog: How to do it
For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See...
View ArticleSoo Meta: a good multimedia tool for journalists and educators
History Soo Meta is a browser based editing tool which according to the website blurb allows you to create multimedia stories in minutes. How it helps you As well as marketers and educators, this tool...
View ArticleFree ebook: Citizen Video – training and engaging citizens in video journalism
TweetVideographer Franzi Baehrle has published an ebook documenting lessons in delivering video training to non-journalists. The ebook was part of her final project for the MA Online Journalism at...
View ArticleVideoNotes great for research with potential for collaborative journalism
VideoNotes (launched this month) is a simple online tool that allows you to write notes alongside videos from a variety of sources including Vimeo, YouTube and Coursera. It was developed by Unishared,...
View ArticleSome Comments About Comments and Their Implications
I’ll admit I’ve never given Web comments serious thought. As a news consumer, I tend to gloss over them by accident, mostly, while trying to find the end of whatever story I’m reading. And as a writer,...
View ArticleShould We Do Away With the Comment Section?
Once upon a time, I believed comment sections were content, too. And on some sites, I liked to read them. But now, Gawker is putting native advertisements in them and I think we should just do away...
View ArticleCreating responsive news stories with Webflow
This browser based application which allows you to visually design responsive websites came out of Beta in August this year. Instead of having to know HTML or rely on a desktop based webdesign software...
View ArticleData Journalism – a modern day Bletchley Park?
Originally published on Liz Hannaford’s blog, reproduced with permission. Lead photo: DaveonFlickr CC licence (CC BY-SA 2.0) I can’t help it. Whenever I hear people talking about their data-driven...
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