State of Investigative Reporting at Newspapers, Broadcasting
BERKELEY, CA — I am blogging live from the conference, “Crisis in News: Symposium on Investgative Reporting,” at UC Berkeley’s…
Open Source Flash Games
Here is another update from our research assistant on the “Playing the News” project. The team has been exploring “mini-games”…
Web 2.0: Blogtropulus vs. the Legacy Press Room
One of the most telling juxtapositions at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is taking place on the…
Examples of Online Investigative Journalism
This weekend I’ll be attending “The Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism?” hosted at the Graduate…
How will investigative journalism survive in the digital age?
With the daily drumbeat of cutbacks at newspaper companies, there is less room for investigative reporters who can take weeks…
Top 5 Week Ninety-Six
Free Frank Chikowore Blogger/journo jailed covering Zimbabwe elections Music mags maimed Ad revenues move to music sites, blogs St. Louis…
Tell Me You Hear the Writing on the Wall?
Microsoft’s Tell Me subsidiary announced the launch of a new audio service for the BlackBerry which allows the user to…
A Coder Practices Multimedia Journalism — with Open Source Tools
Ryan Mark and Brian Boyer, the first two programmer-journalists whose Medill education is being financed by Knight News Challenge scholarships,…
ManyEyes: Data-Rich Features on the Cheap
The web offers news organizations whole new ways to present complex stories to readers, but even the emergence of free…
Public Documents + Shoe Leather Reporting = The Smoking Gun’s Staying Power
In a world of social network widgets, videoblogs and Web 2.0 gewgaws, sometimes it’s the simple things that work best.…