Category Archives: Tools for Journalists

Get more out of Google search – infographic

By Julie Starr | Published: November 27, 2011

An infographic from hackcollege.com on smarter ways to find things using Google. It’s aimed at students but is useful for anyone. Created by: HackCollege

Where to watch NZ election coverage online + examples of coverage

By Julie Starr | Published: November 25, 2011

Updated Nov 26, 2011 A few links on some of the ways media (and a few other organisations) covered the build-up and election night of the general election and referendum in New Zealand (Saturday Nov 26 2011) – #votenz. The (preliminary) election result Party Party Votes % Votes Electorate Seats List Seats Total Seats National [...]

Also posted in government, Journalism, Newspapers | Tagged #election2011, #votenz, election, New Zealand election, NZ election | Leave a comment

British Library creates a “national memory’ with digital newspaper archive

By Julie Starr | Published: May 31, 2011

Public will eventually be able to browse more than 40m newspaper pages

Also posted in Journalism, Search | Tagged Article, books, British Library, Features, Josh Halliday, Libraries, media, Media news & features, MediaGuardian, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, The Guardian | Leave a comment

How do you get people to tell stories?

By Julie Starr | Published: February 22, 2011

I liked this thread in Frank Chimero‘s talk at #Webstock last week. He talked about the power of storytelling (and we’re all about that at allaboutthestory.com:) and particularly about how to get people to tell stories about themselves. Forgive the blur, I grabbed these pics in a hurry. We come across forms on websites all [...]

Also posted in Social Media, Startups | Tagged how to ask good questions, web forms | 4 Comments

My first RSS pipe: a mix of NZ media news

By Julie Starr | Published: January 31, 2011

I’ve just created my first combined RSS feed using Yahoo Pipes – a collection of RSS feeds of news about New Zealand media which you can see under the News tab on this blog. There are only a few feeds in there at the moment but I reckon I’ll add more in the next little [...]

Also posted in Journalism | Tagged Journalism, NZ media, RSS feeds, yahoo pipes | 2 Comments

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This is the blog of Julie Starr. I write about the news business and consult on newsroom integration and change projects.

I am currently working on...

* Newsroom change management and web-and-print development for Fairfax Media NZ.

* Media liaison for Webstock 2012. It's going to be another great conference: here's the speaker list. Email me if you'd like to interview one of these smart people. (We'll do our best depending on everyone's availability.) julie@allaboutthestory.com.
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