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#Tip of the day for journalists: Creating engaging interactives
Poynter has rounded-up some tips on building engaging interactives, based on pointers from the Guardian’s interactive editor in the US Gabriel Dance and interactive designer Feilding Cage. Their...
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#PPAdigital: Lean back, lean forward at The Economist
The Economist divides its digital products into those that involve two reading behaviours: “lean-back 2.0″, which is the print-like digital experience of tablets, and “lean-forward 2.0″, a website...
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#Podcast – Connecting journalism and technology: Lessons for hack day success
Both within and outside of the newsroom, journalists, developers, designers – and people with other skillsets – are coming together to either work on projects as part of dedicated hack days, or just...
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#Podcast – Paywall pointers: Digital subscription lessons for news outlets
Image by Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons While digital subscriptions may not appeal to every publisher, many news outlets have launched paywalls or more metered-models in recent years as the industry...
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Hurricane Sandy and verification: 4 key takeaways from Storyful Hangout
Copyright: Image by MTA Long Island Rail Road on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Hurricane Sandy presented a challenge to journalists using social media channels: how can you be sure that the content you...
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#Tip: ScribbleLive launches internal chat feature to help journalists...
Image by Wiertz Sebastien on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Earlier this week liveblogging platform ScribbleLive announced the launch of a new internal chat feature within its software which enables...
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Ofcom report: TV main source ‘of most types of news’ except celebrity news...
By Brylle on Arte & Fotographia. Some rights reserved. Consumer research by Ofcom released in a study on Thursday reports that TV is the main source of news across all the countries analysed in the...
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#Podcast: What skills do journalists need in the newsroom of 2013?
Image by Jen Durfey on Flickr. Some rights reserved In this week’s Journalism.co.uk podcast technology editor Sarah Marshall speaks to key industry figures about the skills journalists need in today’s...
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Nic Newman: Journalism, media and technology predictions for 2013
Image by mararie on Flickr. Some rights reserved Digital strategist Nic Newman has written a 30-page Google Doc on his predictions for journalism, media and technology this year. The ex-BBC strategist...
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#Podcast: Best practice pointers for handling online news corrections
This week’s podcast looks at recommended approaches to correcting errors, with advice shared by industry experts, including how to measure common mistakes, avoid errors with accuracy checklists and...
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Digital projects to inspire multimedia...
New York Times’s Snowfall package On the 10,000 Words blog Lauren Rabaino puts a spotlight on ten different examples of “innovative storytelling formats”, prompted by the New York Times Snowfall...
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#Tip: Curation considerations for journalists
By mkreyness on Flickr. Some rights reserved. This post on MediaHelpingMedia about curation acts as a helpful reminder of some of the things journalists working in this area should consider. Author...
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#Tip: Pointers for growing your Twitter following
By D.Hilgart on Flickr. Some rights reserved. While it may not all be about quantity, journalists and news outlets alike are undoubtedly keen to grow a large, and engaged community on social networks...
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#Podcast – Snow Fall and beyond: A look at long-form online storytelling
Thinkstock Following last month’s the Pulitzer prize for New York Times sports reporter John Branch, the author of Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek, and this week’s Webby Awards which also...
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#Tip: Watch video of social video panel from Social Media Summit
Image by petesimon on Flickr. Some rights reserved The BBC College of Journalism has posted video on YouTube of a panel on creating social video, which was held at the Social Media Summit in New York...
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#Tip: RSS reader options from TechCrunch
By Robert Scoble on Flickr. Some rights reserved. This week Google Reeder was shut down. If you are still looking for a new platform to use instead, TechCrunch has compiled a list of some other options...
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#Tip: Learn to code with Codecademy
Image by espensorvik on Flickr. Some rights reserved At the LA Times, code and algorithms are scraping stats from automated reports and writing updates for journalists to analyse. Learning to code is...
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#Podcast: New ventures in interactive video
By jswakins on Flickr.Some rights reserved. This week’s podcast looks at how different news organisations are using interactive video as a means for telling different types of stories, and the broader...
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#Tip: Learn how to make YouTube work for you
By dominicotine on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The role of video in online journalism is becoming increasingly important and, aside from the basics of filming and editing, there are other ways to...
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#Podcast: Building a better comment experience on news sites
By Melissa Marques on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Just this week the New York Times experimented with a new way to add value to the way comments feature on article pages, with specially selected...
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