Multimedia Journalism

Starbucks: The new newsroom?

2008-05-21T20:27:46Z

"With most editing, ad placement, layout, and design done on computers anyway, it's conceivable that the newsroom as it exists today could be eliminated, with folks working from home, their car, or even the local Starbucks." -Editor and Publisher...

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Search the Future!

2008-04-02T23:27:43Z

Google has come up with an amazing way to search content BEFORE it is created! What will they think of next? Give it a try! http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/

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The Battle for My Soul

2008-03-06T20:44:32Z

I am trying to embrace the future. This blog, at least one of my classes, and what little free time I have these days are all centered around what seems to be the inevitable: journalism is going digital. Newspapers are losing pages and staff. It'...

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The Great Race: Has the Internet defeated TV news?

2008-03-02T01:20:57Z

We've been speculating for the last few years that the Internet would eventually become the primary source for news among Americans. TV has been holding strong in all the polls until two days ago, when this We Media/Zogby Interactive Poll was rel...

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Blogging 2.0 - Shame on Me!

2008-03-02T00:57:27Z

I tell my students that to be an effective blogger, you MUST post REGULARLY. Sadly, my last post was Nov. 17 - of last year. I do have a good excuse. My mother died exactly one month after that post. But I notice that blogging is like exercising ...

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Court Reporting 2.0

2007-11-17T21:57:54Z

Many years ago, when I was anchoring in Boise, we were covering the federal murder trial of Randy Weaver, a white supremacist accused of killing a deputy marshal. Since cameras aren't allowed in federal court, we had to rely on our reporter to ru...

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News From the Street Where You Live

2007-11-04T15:54:17Z

Last week, during my fussing about the lack of hyperlocal fire coverage for evacuees, I envisioned a solution to the problem many of us were having during our unplanned vacation. We wanted to be able to get fire news about our neighborhood online...

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True Convergence: Linking to the Competition!

2007-10-30T18:18:10Z

Back in my days in TV news, the rule was not to acknowledge the competition, let alone direct viewers to them. But the Internet is changing that! Al Tompkins of Poynteronline notes that the Web site of one of the TV stations in Madison, Wis., is...

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Online Coverage for Evacuees

2007-10-30T17:33:37Z

Here's an interesting development from my former market in Southwest Florida. Deborah Potter reports in her blog that staffers at the Naples Daily News were told last year they no longer work for a newspaper - they work for a dot.com. They see t...

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NBC Hires Web Only Reporter

2007-10-17T17:55:31Z

NBC's Nightly News has added a new journalist to its staff - but you won't see her on your TV set. Instead, Mara Schiavocampo will be reporting just for Nightly's Web site. Check out her own Web site - very innovative. She is an award-winning vide...

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