December 2011
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12 Predictions for Africa’s Tech Scene in 2012 →
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“For the last year, much of the focus has been on curating content from the...”
– Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
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“Information is everywhere, and more than any previous year in our history, 2012...”
– Amy Webb. Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012 » Nieman Journalism Lab
Full disclosure: Amy Webb is a current board member of the Online News Association.
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J-School Students: Don't Just Look at Traditional... →
lifeandcode:
This is why journalism students shouldn’t restrict themselves to looking for jobs and internships at traditional newsrooms. Look at web-only publications, startups — and start something yourself. I’m far more likely to hire someone who’s built something themselves…and those that can build are far more likely to get into the profession and stay in it.
You’ll also improve the...
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“Television news often gets a bum rap. Broadcast journalists routinely get...”
– Advancing the Story on How to do news that matters.
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The deadline dilemma: Four tips to improve any... →
Are you trying to land that big internship next summer? Do you want to stand out among a hundred other scholarship applicants? Here are four great tips to make your application stand out.
Related, the deadline for the AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship is coming up this month.
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“People just get things wrong. They read them wrong, or remember them wrong or...”
– What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones (via rubenfeld)
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“The greatest danger journalists are facing today in post-revolution Arab...”
– Ahmed Tarek, reporter, Middle East News Agency, to the Committee to Protect Journalists. For journalists, coverage of political unrest proves deadly.
The CPJ reports that 43 journalists were killed around the world this year with Pakistan proving the most deadly with seven deaths.
There were 19...
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The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award... →
Columbia University announced the winners of the 2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.The awards have been called the ”broadcasting equivalent of the Pulitzers.”
Al Jazeera English, Media Storm and the New York Times are among the winners who were honored for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism.
See the full list on the Columbia Journalism site.
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Swedish journalists found guilty on terrorism... →
“Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye face 15 years in prison for entering Ogaden with ethnic Somali rebels.”
Read the full story on the Guardian.
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“If you work on organized crime and corruption stories, you are going to need to...”
– Miranda Patrucic, Investigative reporter for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Read more about her work following corruption in Bosnia- Herzegovina in this week’s featured member profile on journalists.org
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“With technology empowering everyone with the ability to create and to...”
– Robert Hernandez: For journalism’s future, the killer app is credibility » Nieman Journalism Lab
Full disclosure: Robert Hernandez is a current board member of the Online News Association.
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Language, Free →
Columbia Journalism Review has a great round up of language blogs and sites. Brush up on your grammer skills, get pointers from great copy editors and see critiques of language use on popular sites.
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Amanda Cox on designing data graphics for The New York Times, fantastic talk from EyeO Festival. Related, 7 essential books on data visualization recommended by EyeO speakers. See also Journalism in the Age of Data.
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Social Shares: Free online classes at Stanford,...
The ONA Issues Tumblr is your platform to define and explore the pressing issues in digital media and get a better fix on how they impact your work. Here are the top five posts from last week.
What is SOPA and how does it affect you? The House delayed voting on SOPA until next session, but this overview will give you details you need on what the bill means.
ProPublica launches “Explore Sources”...
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Coders Are Already Finding Ways Around SOPA... →
“A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn’t have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he’s built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered: DeSOPA. The Firefox add-on is stunningly simple as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would block specific domain names (e.g. www.thepiratebay.com) of allegedly infringing...
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Getting Detained and Gassed - NYTimes.com →
Nick Kristof traveled to Bahrain to witness protests against the dictatorship. While in country, he is detained and the video journalist traveling with him was attacked by riot police. Read his full account on the New York Times.
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Student summit explores diverse storytelling in... →
The Digital Diversity Summit “explored topics that directly impact diversity in digital storytelling, including the democratic implications of media consolidation, net neutrality and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), now making its way through Congress; the role of social media in facilitating social change; the evolving interface between traditional and citizen journalists; efforts to...
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“Most women and underrepresented minorities don’t get to experience being in a...”
– In this thoughtful personal essay, Allison Bland discusses the challenges of being a black woman working in the technology industry. Read the full article: Free The Network | The Awl.
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Time Magazine Losing Only Black Correspondent →
“Five years ago, Journal-isms asked Ali Zelenko, vice president for communications at Time Inc., to name the journalists of color at Time magazine.
Among the 15 she listed were black journalists Janice Simpson, assistant managing editor; Ta-Nehisi Coates, staff writer; Perry Bacon Jr., Washington correspondent; and Sonja Steptoe, senior correspondent.
Today, all are gone. And the last...
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“I’d love if tech writing as a whole held itself to a higher standard, and...”
– Liz Gannes, of All Things D, talks with Elapsed Time about the state of tech writing today.
Elapsed Time interviewed a number of influential tech writers on “whether they think the public gets the journalism they deserve and whether they felt compelled to write to the interest of the...
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Manning the Muse: The Creative Interpretations of... →
Bradley Manning, who has been arrested on charges that he provided secret documents to Wikileaks, will see his first day in court today. The Atlantic Wire pulls together creative works inspired by Bradley Manning, including a movie, a play, a handful of songs and artwork.
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What is SOPA and how does it affect you?
Right now the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is being debated in a mark-up session in the House Judiciary Committee. (You can catch a livestream here.)
Elizabeth Flock of the Washington Post reports on how journalists are jumping into the debate:
“First came the critiques of civil liberties and human rights groups. Then came the slams from Internet engineers and Web giants, including ...
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DC's WTOP Gears Newsroom For Digital →
“One of the nation’s top-grossing radio stations announced plans Wednesday to reorganize and expand its Washington newsroom to make online news as high a priority as radio and in some cases break news online first.”
Read the full story on Net News Check.
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Tips for creating audio/photo slideshows?
KerryDee asked us for tips on creating audio/photo slide shows and we’d like to give you the floor. Any tips?
“Hey all, I’m a multimedia reporter, editing on Adobe Premiere. (I know…) I’d like to start doing audio/photo slideshows and am wondering if I should have my company buy Soundslides, or if there is something better now? I read that people are using Final Cut...
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How One College President Is Breaking Down... →
“At Harvey Mudd, one of the seven Claremont colleges, Dr. Klawe’s strategy has already produced dramatic results. When she arrived, 33% of the student body was female, but only 10% of computer science majors were female. Today, 42% of the student body is female, and 40% major in computer science.”
Forbes details the changes that Dr. Klawe has made to help women succeed in tech...
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Stanford offers free online classes
Stanford University is offering seven computer science courses next semester that you can take for free. All are online courses and open to the public.
The available computer science courses are:
Computer Science 101 http://www.cs101-class.org/ Machine Learning (one of the offerings this past fall) http://jan2012.ml-class.org/ Software as a Service http://www.saas-class.org/ Human-Computer...
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How journalists can use Excel to organize data for... →
A helpful tutorial for beginners that shows a number of ways to organize data in Excel.
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“Now that the news ecology has turned from verdant to desert-like, particularly...”
– Tom Stites argues that a co-op model may be an answer for journalism in the US. This is the third article in a three part series for Nieman Journalism Lab on where web journalism stands today.
Read the full article: Might the new web journalism model be neither for-profit nor nonprofit?
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News orgs take to social media to find Va. Tech... →
Maciej Ceglowski breaks down the risk of using...
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
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“According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists issued on...”
– The Committee to Protect Journalists’s Report Says Imprisoned Journalists at 15-Year High - NYTimes.com