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Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:18 AM

Tales of the Tornado

The Des Moines Register is doing an amazing job of using maps, stories, photos, videos and blogs to cover the storms that have hammered Iowa. Take for example its "Parkersburg Tornado: The Aftermath" package, which allows viewers to scan a map
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:37 AM

College Life

Earlier this week News Gems featured a great investigation by students at Humboldt State University. Today I want to highlight one of the most exciting multimedia projects I've seen, which was created by students at Northwestern University. Developed
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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Monday, May 05, 2008 10:45 PM

Primary Politics

For depth of political coverage, it's hard to beat The Politico and politico.com. Since editors John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei launched the upstart Web site last year, it has quickly ramped up the quality and thoroughness of its coverage. For an
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:30 AM

Back to Mexico

The Record in Stockton, Calif., proves that you don't need to be a big newspaper to put together lively Web packages. "And a Song Shall Carry Them Home" by reporter Jennifer Torres and photographer Victor Blue follows three musician brothers as they return
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Friday, April 04, 2008 8:00 AM

Winning Pictures

The National Press Photographers Association has finished its 2008 competition, and the winners show us the best of photojournalism on the Web. John Moore of Getty Images captured first place in the still photo category for a portfolio showing the causes
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Monday, March 24, 2008 8:30 AM

Five Years of War

To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Reuters and Media Storm collaborated to create the powerful "Bearing Witness." The Web package combines brilliant photographs of the fighting and everyday Iraqi life, video interviews with some
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Friday, March 21, 2008 12:11 AM

Mapping our Lives

I doubt any newspaper's Web site uses maps any better than the Bakersfield Californian does. Some of the things you can do using Bakersfield.com's interactive maps include identifying the worst potholes in town, pinpointing unsolved gang killings, searching
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 7:33 AM

Portrait of a Street

Miami's 27th Avenue stretches for 17.5 miles through some of Dade County's most culturally rich neighborhoods. Although the street was officially renamed "Unity Boulevard" more than 20 years ago, Robert Samuels of the Miami Herald shows us that these
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:30 AM

Hurray for the Winners

We're proud to write that many of the stories we've highlighted in News Gems won National Journalism Awards last week. "Hidden Hazards: Kids at Risk" by Patricia Callahan and Maurice Possley of the Chicago Tribune took first prize in the public service
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Monday, February 25, 2008 8:30 AM

Accidents Can Happen

The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, La., offers us a good example of how small and mid-sized newspapers can create compelling multimedia stories. "Megan's Journey" uses text, photos and sound to show us how troubled 17-year-old Megan Theriot
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:05 AM

Tossing the Evidence

Ohio's police and courts routinely lose or throw away DNA evidence, The Columbus Dispatch discovered during a yearlong investigation. For their "Test of Convictions" series, reporters Geoff Dutton and Mike Wagner reviewed 313 cases and
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:30 AM

Every Victim Deserves a Story

In a city with hundreds of homicides every year, it's easy to lose track of all the victims. The Los Angeles Times and the LA Daily News, however, have made extensive commitments over the past year to telling the victims' stories. The Times' "The
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Friday, February 08, 2008 8:30 AM

The Gap in Bridge Inspections

Bill Dedman's "Bridge Inspections" series for msnbc.com is getting a lot of buzz and for good reason: Dedman remains one of the best investigative reporters in the business. Dedman discovered that at least 17,000 U.S. bridges went more than two years
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Monday, February 04, 2008 8:30 AM

Just the Facts

I don't know of any news organization in the country that's giving more pure information to its readers than the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle's Web site. Its "Rocdocs" section gives readers easy access to public records such as DWI conviction
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