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What Makes A Good Video Story
We are always looking for opportunities to add multimedia features to our stories, and the most popular kind of feature we can add is video. Eventually, it would be great if the reporters would pitch video ideas on their own initiative. To this end, here’s a link to a post on Net Worked, What Makes [...]
To Catch A Plagiarist
Journalists often talk and write about how bad it is, which makes me wonder why we find it acceptable to do almost nothing to prevent it? The general attitude towards plagiarism checking seems to be, “Let’s save our money and let readers and other people catch the culprits.” via cjr.org This comes from Craig Silverman [...]
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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore
I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t supposed to respond to public comments about and critiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbitrary rules that somebody thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
A strategic retreat
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Content Creation: Sharing, remixing, blogging, and more | Pew Internet & American Life Project
via pewinternet.org A new Pew study shows that young people use the heck out of the Internet; they just don’t seem to be using it to blog. They also use the heck out of social networking sites, just not Twitter. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
Good social networking and Twitter tips from a Columbia J-School professor
If you’re still waffling about whether to use Twitter for personal or professional reasons, check out this post from Sree Sreenivasan, a journalism professor and the dean of student affairs at the Columbia Journalism School. It includes links to all manner of Twitter introductions, tutorials and other resources. Some of his links can help you [...]
Gremlins!
More encoding “gremlins” snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off “smart quotes” on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose. Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or TextWrangler (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web. This just looks bad.
A walk in snowshoes
via blip.tv Our latest Chronicle video, shot by Michael Gibney, edited by me. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
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