Archive
9 Mar

Learning on the job: social media workshops for journos

ByRoland LegrandFor the last few weeks, my colleague Raphael and I have been organizing a series of social media workshops for our fellow journalists at the Belgian business newspapers and […]

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20 Jan

Twitter: tips for journos from a recent convert

By Kim Pittaway First images of the Hudson River aircrash: posted by a Twitter user. Eyewitness reports of the Mumbai bombings: posted by Twitter users. Real-time chatter about local news […]

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16 Oct

Take a number: tools for getting the numbers straight

By Bob Ortega I went into journalism because I’m good with words, not with numbers. Yes, we’ve noticed. It’s a sad fact that many reporters’ eyes glaze over when they’re […]

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4 Sep

Twelve new tools for a reporter’s hectic life

By Bob Ortega Here’s a brief roundup of new (and new-ish) Internet-based communication tools that are likely to be useful to any reporter – or, at the very least, worth fooling […]

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12 May

Online Journalism Review

Published by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, the Online Journalism Review provides commentary, features and resources on a wide range of topics relating to online journalism. […]

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12 May

Getting more out of Google

By Robert Ortega How often do you start a search by looking on Google? Yeah, I do that more often than I’d like to admit, too. But even if you […]

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8 May

Pathfinders

What is a pathfinder, you might ask? A pathfinder is a specialized resource guide that gathers together, organizes, and annotates links to information about a specific topic such as immigration […]

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12 Mar

Statistical resources on the web

<p>This resource, created by the University of Michigan Library Document Center, is <a href="http://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an invaluable tool</a> for tracking down freely available statistics on the web. Although the resources listed are mostly focused on the United States, the site also provides links to international statistical sources. The site is organized into broad categories including: Agriculture, Health, Cost of Living, Foreign Governments, etc... There is also a search function.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Updated August 20, 2012</strong>:</p>

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8 Feb

Social bookmarking 101

This two-part Poynter Centerpiece serves as a primer for how and why to use bookmarking services like del.icio.us and Digg. Interactivity Editor Ellyn Angelotti provides an overview of how the two aforementioned […]

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11 Oct

Who speaks for a website?

Online communities often operate as a news medium, rather than a traditionally staffed news publication. Other news reports about these sites, to be fully accurate, should reflect that fact by […]

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