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No excuse not to link to news sources
When people want to know, especially when it comes to breaking news or severe weather, they want the info. They don’t care where they get it from as long as it’s a source they trust.
(via joeruiz.net)
A nice post from Joe Ruiz back in May 2009 about link journalism. He advocates linking directly to the [...]
Can we record that?
Where is it legal to record a telephone conversation? Who has to know the call is being recorded? What about interstate phone calls? Do you know the answer, reporters?
If not, check out the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s guide to recording conversations. It’s got the rules for all 50 states.
Also, check out the [...]
Blogs and Web logs
John Naughton, on the difference between writing for Web and writing for print:
The other difference between writing for print and writing for one’s blog is that there comes a moment with the print essay when it has to be ‘finished’ and dispatched to the sub-editors: there’s an ‘end-point’, in other words. But, in a sense, [...]
RSS 101
RSS is one of those words that gets thrown around a lot these days when you’re talking about the Web, but do you know what it is?
It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s a way of disseminating content online.
Now that’s as far as I’m going to go explaining it. For the primer, [...]
Save early and save often
Lesson learned: If a program offers you the opportunity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it.
Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, thinking that Final Cut Pro is saving [...]
Web first or not?
The Chronicle newsroom is grappling with new issues. Until now, the paper’s Web site has been updated once a day — at night, after or during the process of laying out the print edition’s pages. Most days, the Web site didn’t change at all unless some really big news made it impossible not to update [...]
Video: Achieving a Web-first newsroom workflow
This video from CoPress.org is worth a watch. It emphasizes that the Web should be the center of a newsroom’s workflow; the Web should be a priority. This will require a pretty big shift in reporters’ and editors’ mind sets, though.
The Web-centric newsroom from CoPress on Vimeo.
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