Category Archives: Tools for Journalists

10+ ways to cover an election

By Julie Starr | Published: November 3, 2010
This is a round-up of some of the apps I’ve seen news & other orgs using online to help people understand and engage with the mid-term elections in the US. It’s not an exhaustive list, just things that passed in front of my eyeballs on election day. The images are all linked. First up, Mashable [...]
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A home for retired stories and other thoughts on the Qantas Media Awards

By Julie Starr | Published: November 2, 2010
I like the idea of a home for retired stories. Somewhere they can gambol about care free and folks can come and visit them. So many stories, especially human interest stories and videos and photo galleries, spend a day or two in the limelight of news homepages then drift under water never to surface again [...]
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Kinetic type in video journalism

By Julie Starr | Published: November 1, 2010
I enjoyed this post from Lauren Rabaino on 10,000 Words about the use of kinetic type in video storytelling and how it can be used in journalism. There’s huge value in being able to tell a story that people will read all the way through– from start to finish– and then share with all their [...]
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Watch this: Journalism in the Age of Data

By Julie Starr | Published: October 31, 2010
Pleased I made time this weekend to watch this documentary on data journalism by Geoff McGhee. I came across it on Flowing Data (thanks guys:) who name-check some of the people interviewed: Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viègas kick things off with some of the work they did with IBM. Then it’s Ben Fry from Fathom, then Jeffrey Heer [...]
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How Google works – the graphic

By Julie Starr | Published: July 3, 2010
I came across this via a link on Twitter (can’t remember who, sorry) and thought I’d post it for my students.
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