Category Archives: Tools for Journalists
A useful set of standards for bloggers
The Media Bloggers Association describes itself as “a nonpartisan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members; supporting the development of “blogging” or “citizen journalism” as a distinct form of media; and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.” Its founding [...]
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Thoughts on blogging for journalists
A few thoughts on blogging for journalists in this slide show posted by Andy Dickinson. So you have been given a blog View more presentations from Andy Dickinson.
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A storehouse of multimedia storytelling ideas
I did a webinar through the Poynter Institute on Flash for Journalists recently. (Good for an overview of what Flash is, component parts, how it’s used in journalism and some terminology, but doesn’t teach you how to use Flash software if that’s what you’re looking for.) Along the way they pointed to interactivenarratives.com, which is [...]
In praise of open New Zealand
I’m heartened by some ‘open’ developments in New Zealand. Firstly, kudos to Nat Torkington and Glen Barnes for setting up http://opengovt.org.nz, a website that promises to catalogue any government data that’s publicly available for download and further use. This is cool. It can become a useful port of call for anyone looking for data to [...]
Data, labels and the power of microformats