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February 14th, 2013

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How do you build a project across three times zones? Denise Ajiri, MJ Bear Fellow and one of the co-founders of Iran Election Watch, shares tips.

When you are a small group of three, you have to be ready to do everything on your own, from designing the website to preparing the content to marketing the product. At the beginning, as with all projects, we wrote up a proposal.

Learn more about the tools they use to connect across time zones and how they built Iran Election Watch: 1 Project, 3 Time Zones: How to Do It - Online News Association.

February 8th, 2013

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Life and Code: Resources for Journalists Who Want To Learn To Code #JIConf

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I’m at Journalism Interactive today, and this is a post with resources mentioned in our session on creating coder/journalists.

First, The Journalist’s Learn To Code Resource Guide has 100+ free beginner resources.

The two big ideas I mention in my session are The Three Skills and The Four…

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January 28th, 2013

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Andy Carvin of NPR Shares Wisdom On Reddit - 10,000 Words

A great roundup of some of the highlights from Carvin’s AMA on Reddit last week, this includes advice on verifying sources, authenticating video, mixing personal social media with news on Twitter and more.

December 18th, 2012

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Happy Holidays, Tumblr!

This year, as our gift we’re sharing our version of holiday heaven: links to great resources we’ve compiled through the year. The Online News Association organized dozens of training sessions for journalists in 2012, and we’ve pulled together the highlights for you. Get useful digital tips from our expert presenters at ONA12 and ONACamps, learn how to build your own Twitter app, meet our current MJ Bear Fellows and learn more about the AP-Google Scholarship, which will provide six students with $20,000 each.

Enjoy, and have a wonderful, peaceful holiday season.

December 6th, 2012

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More than 80 journalists, students and educators took over the University of Minnesota’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications on Saturday for a day of free digital training, brainstorming and connection with peers.

Head to journalists.org for our full list of session resources and quick takeaways from our weekend in Minneapolis. This includes notes from the 12 sessions and digital resources from the presenters, who included the New York Times’ Kevin Quealy, NPR’s Doug Mitchell, the Washington Post’s Yuri Victor, Placeblogger founder Lisa Williams, Tomorrow Magazine co-founder Amanda Hess, the Denver Post’s Daniel Petty and more.

We also recorded audio from a couple of these workshops. They’re available, along with audio from ONA12, on ONA’s SoundCloud page.

All photos: Jennifer Mizgata, ONA

December 5th, 2012

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When I’ve got to get some writing done, I turn on my Strict Pomodoro plug-in in Chrome. It shuts off all internet distractions, such as email, for 20 minutes, then sounds a bell and lets me back at them for 5 minutes. I can spend a whole day like this: 20-5, 20-5… When I really need to concentrate, it’s the only thing that works for me.

Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, in Lifehacker’s series, This Is How I Work.

Background:

Chris announced that he’s stepping down to focus on his robotics manufacturing startup, 3D Robotics. While manning the helm at Wired, Chris authored three books that turned him into a leading voice across schools of economics, technology, and DIY design: The Long Tail, Free, and his latest, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. (He also lead the magazine in nearly doubling its readership, racked up too many awards to count, and landed on the Time100.)

FJP: The series is quite fantastic. Something like The Atlantic’s What I Read, Lifehacker’s This Is How I Work is a collection of the personal, quirky, productivity habits and idiosyncrasies of great techies, entrepreneurs, writers and more. Some of our favorites:

Mark Frauenfelder, Editor-in-Chief of MAKE Magazine
Erik Martin, General Manager of Reddit
Maria Popova, Creator of Brain Pickings
Christopher Jobson, Creator of Colossal

(via futurejournalismproject)

ONA Issues: Want to know more about the Pomodoro Technique? We did a test drive of the productivity hack earlier this year.

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December 4th, 2012

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chartsnthings: R tutorial: Simple charts

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Here’s a (still getting tweaked) R tutorial for the charts in the last post. Here’s the data you’ll need to download.

Set your working directory to wherever you want to work out of (usually a project folder)

setwd("/Users/pathToMyFolder...")

Next, load the data. Any format is fine, but our…

Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, gave a great presentation at ONACamp Minnesota last weekend. He’s pulled together these useful notes so you too can build charts like a champ.

More resources from ONACamp Minnesota coming soon.

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November 30th, 2012

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‘What can you do for me?’: Application tips from digital journalism pros

Applying for a new job, internship, scholarship or fellowship? We’ve pulled together some great tips from digital journalism experts that will make your application more awesome.

Justin Ellis, Assistant Editor at Nieman Journalism Lab, recommends:

Tell a compelling story. When all other factors are equal, the best case you can make for yourself is with your writing. If you want recruiters, managers, or scholarship committees to take notice, give them a memorable story that gives a sense of who you are and what you can achieve with their help.

Check out more great advice from journalists from AP, CNN, The Daily Dot, Gannett, NPR, Politico, and USC Annenberg.

Looking for a scholarship? We’re accepting applications now from undergraduate and graduate students for the $20,000 AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship.

Image by opensourceway used under Creative Commons license.

November 16th, 2012

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Online charts are now easy with infogr.am

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We just updated our Charts site. Look how many amazingly beautiful charts you can now create with infogr.am All of them are combinable in cool, animated infographics as you may expect. Everything from a simple bar chart to treemaps, word clouds, stream graphs and gauge. Fine-tuned for data journalism needs.
So, check it out and create some cool online charts (see examples).

(Source: infogram)

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November 12th, 2012

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AP Stylebook creates a Spanish-language Stylebook to address changes in language | Poynter.

Available online only, the new Spanish version of the AP Stylebook is aimed both at journalists in Spanish-speaking countries and in the U.S.

Poynter reports:

Similar to the English AP Stylebook, the Spanish version has Twitter and Facebook accounts, as well as an “Ask the Editor” feature where users can pose questions to the Stylebook editors.

Starting next Monday, Nov. 19, the Spanish Stylebook will be available to existing customers of AP’s Spanish services. In early 2013, the Stylebook will be available to anyone who wants to pay for it. A release about the Stylebook explains the cost: ‘Prices start at $26 for one user’s yearlong subscription and $210 for a one-year subscription for a 10-user site license. AP is offering introductory rates at about one-third off regular prices.’

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