Journalism Blog

Poynter College Fellows win again, this time on video. Seriously, that e-mail group is inspiring me. And, yes, I was asked directly. I don’t just randomly spout off like this. Ok, not THIS much. Thanks #pcf09 kids. This is in response to a request for advice on teaching a video workshop for high school journalists [...]
oh i can’t beleive it

I’ll be trekking down to Richmond, the capitol of the commonwealth I now call home, to speak with a graduate-level online journalism class on Friday evening. My esteemed Publish2 colleague (and all-around awesome dude) Ryan Sholin was not able to attend and I’ve been invited to discuss what we do, how journalism is changing and whatever [...]
does anyone know when this will take effect

I’m in DC today for the New Media Women Entrepreneur summit. Here’s a live blog that’s also pulling in tweets with the hashtag #nmwe. New Media Women Entrepreneurs Summit 2009
I like this:)

Sections: Context, How to investigate, What to do, Other examples, Conclusion, Epilogue If you see a blog post titled “10 Iconic Journalists Every J-Student Should Study” and want to share it, please consider what you’re attaching your name to on the interwebs. At the time of posting, more than 70 people have tweeted the link. [...]
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The second Web Journalist Chat on Twitter (#wjchat) will be Wednesday (tonight) at 8 p.m. ET and I’ll be the guest moderator. (Sidenote: #wjchat is not affiliated with Wired Journalists, the Ning network I administer for Publish2.) Here’s a preview of what we’ll be discussing: The relationship between programmers and journalists in your newsroom Beyond [...]
great news thought i would never see this.

Quick update: I attended the New York Press Association (hashtag #NYPA on Twitter) spring convention this past weekend, where I led a session on link journalism. As I had hoped, the participants asked questions throughout and we had a good discussion. The slides are embedded below (RSS subscribers will probably have to click through to Slideshare [...]
Rome wasnt built in a day!

As someone who started out as a primarily “print” reporter, my mindset — and, more specifically, my thinking — as a journalist continues to evolve after nearly eight years in the field, starting as a high school sophomore. Computational Thinking visualized by Carnegie Mellon using Wordle. (Creative Commons) That made me wonder on Twitter: How [...]
if people only knew

For this month’s joint ONADC/Hacks & Hackers meetup, Derek Willis of The New York Times interactive news technology team will discuss data + coding + journalism and walk through the award-winning Toxic Waters project. You can watch live (archived video player embedded below) or follow along the Twitter by searching ONADC. If you’re in town, there are still [...]
thanks for delivering this story to me

With all the discussion of the skill set and mindset necessary for journalists today — both of which are important — we need to also consider a deeper question about mindset: how to go about rethinking our thinking. One key area of exploration is computational thinking, through which we can tie the practice of journalism [...]
oh i can’t beleive it

Today at work I got my own sandbox for web development. In a Skype conversation with the lead developer, he said I could get a branch off the trunk for certain projects I might work on. Basically, I would have a testing environment (sandbox) and it would make sense to also have a place (branch) [...]
so interesting