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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:33 PM

Kicking it Old School

Digital multi-media features are increasingly commonplace in today's news outlets as print and electronic media have begun irreversibly cross-dipping into technologies previously exclusive to each other. What we once only read on paper we see and hear
posted by HilaryFosdal | 2 Comments
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:51 PM

Print headlines often fail Web readers

"County to raise taxes on property." "Smith calls for cleanup of polluted site." "City to approve land-use plan tomorrow." Headlines like those work just fine for a newspaper -- the print kind, the kind you pick up off your lawn in the morning
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Sunday, September 28, 2008 7:48 PM

Talking Twitter with BeatBlogger about microblogging the news

Normal 0 Patrick Thornton of Beatblogging.org called last week to talk about how I use Twitter to cover trials. It resulted in this post and podcast. Also look up Patrick on Twitter @jionoclast.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:29 AM

SPJ Convention all a-Twitter with new media and online journalism learning

Normal 0 Random notes from the SPJ National Convention which ending Sunday … Some SPJ members may see the organization as still being for a bunch of old newspaper dudes. You may think curmudgeons rule, but you
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:03 AM

Think C-Span is dry? Their on-line coverage of the political conventions is anything but

If you haven’t checked out what C-Span is doing with the Democratic Convention, you’re missing some exciting journalism. The convention hub includes not only the videos you’d expect, but also blogs from nearly every state and Twitter feeds
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:28 AM

A curmudgeon journalist gets inspired: a short subject

FADE IN: (After a busy week wrestling with a data project, RON is catching up on his reading, scratching his head like a curmudgeon. We hear the narration of his inner voice, resembling Woody Allen): MERANDA WATLING wrote a post on her blog
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:40 AM

Listen and learn: lessons on blogging, Twitter and covering the news live

I listened to the podcast the Guardian posted the other day on The Future of Journalism: Blogging, Twittering and Live Video.  Fascinating and thought-provoking, it's 87 minutes long, so download it to your IPod and take it with you to
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Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:43 PM

Now I'm blogging as part of the my job

My beat is in a courthouse, a building where human drama plays out in some form every day.  In eight years of covering courts, I'd often hear of interesting stories that wouldn't fit into what I was working on that day, or just didn't have
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