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Tutorials for online journalism goodness
Mindy McAdams links to Journalistopia’s impressive online journalism tutorials category, including: “One I had completely missed: Quick HTML bar graphs with Excel, Table Tango demonstrates a very...
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ABCNews.com relaunches with citizen journalism
Another day, another relaunch. Micro Persuasion reports on the ABCNews.com relaunch: “According to Michael Clemente, Senior Executive Producer, the new site, which it launched last night, is designed...
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Relaunched Liverpool Trinity Mirror sites: a thumbs-up
Trinity Mirror have finally relaunched the first of their local newspaper websites, with the Liverpool Post and Liverpool Echo breaking free of that ‘icLiverpool’ brand and into individually branded...
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Floods: BBC shows the way to organise massive coverage
Press Gazette reports on the BBC using Google Maps to organise flood reports: “After a few hours of work on his laptop, [broadcast journalist Oliver] Williams had created an interactive map plotting...
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Independent music magazine shows a web-savvy business model
A former student of mine, Gareth Main, has launched his own magazine, and on the whole I’m pretty impressed with his business model and online approach. Bearded Magazine covers the independent music...
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The OJB Digest: 7th Sept ’07
The Rake Today: Lambert to the Slaughter “Next Monday appears to be the date for former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer to reveal his plans for the launch of a professionally edited and...
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Independent relaunches website – the real change isn’t technical
So the Independent has relaunched its website. At first glance there’s nothing spectacularly new or innovative, but a deeper look reveals some intelligent changes – particularly on the business side...
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They’re not “geeks”– they’re early adopters
Last week I was at a magazine publishers talking about social media platforms, when it was put to me that the platform I was talking about was “mainly used by Valley types”, and why should journalists...
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US election coverage – who’s making the most of the web?
Elections bring out the best in online journalism. News organisations have plenty of time to plan, there’s a global audience up for grabs, and the material lends itself to interactive treatment (voter...
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Instagram has launched a new “carousel” feature – here’s how journalists can...
Using Instagram’s new feature to tell Storm Doris story. Note the call to action to ‘swipe’: this can also be done in the caption to the first image or video.This week Instagram announced a new feature...
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