[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. The Times provide a helpful list of bloggers covering the election. To list them here: “Some websites try to remain neutral or dispassionate, such as politicalbetting.com , which allows political gamblers to place trends and events in context or the Guido Fawkes blog , which cuts across all kinds of political stories. “The pollingreport.co.uk site (and its blog)
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Interesting article by Amy Gahran on how interviewees might publish transcripts of their interviews – including what the journalist says – on their blogs. “When I interview sources I will make a point of asking if they have their own site or weblog, and whether they’re intending to write about the interview. I will consider the whole conversation
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Google Maps has already made some waves in the US, so it’s good to see it now over here – and what a lovely piece of technology it is. Intuitive, click-and-drag control with a slider to zoom in, with great detail.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Here’s an article I wrote for Journalism.co.uk in its pre-edited form. Click here for the edited version, which makes the wise decision to hang it on the recent Murdoch speech… The virtual election Forget the fight for Number 10. The real fight in this election season is between the news organisations – and it seems that when it
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Now this looks pretty impressive: an interactive museum of news, with sections on front pages, photography and photojournalism, cartoons, coverage of particular events and a US-centric news quiz.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Useful page outlining the arguments for and against using ‘click here’ as a hyperlink – as well as some suggestions for alternative sentences to link from.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. US journalist Duff Wilson’s Reporter’s Desktop has some great ideas, some of which translate to British practice (the dictionary and reference links), some of which are only useful in America (demographics; government) – although the latter should still prompt some ideas as to link it might be worth having. On another page he outlines his own processes in
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[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Thanks to Andy for drawing my attention to CNN’s online coverage of the Jackson trial. The company have clearly ploughed some hefty resources into this one, with video reports, a gallery of key players, and an interactive timeline. Well worth exploring.
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Thanks to a colleague for introducing the slightly-more-useful-than-Google Google Suggest: basically Google with an auto-suggest function that guesses what you’re searching for (and tells you how many results there are). So, ‘s’ and ‘sp’ bring up ‘spybot’; ‘spr’ brings up ‘sprint’; and ‘spra’ brings up ‘sprained ankle’. Just what I was looking for…
[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. From Buzzworthy: “NAA‘s Presstime magazine looks at how newspaper editors factor in Web traffic when deciding what stories will make the front page in print. (At the Post-Intelligencer, printside editors get regular reports about what stories are most popular online but I think they usually make their decisions based on more traditional criteria.)”
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