Don’t Get Fooled
March 29, 2002
Don’t trust anything you read online. Including this.
Searchlight on Campaign 2001, GothamGazette.com
March 28, 2002
Winner, 2002 Batten Innovator Award. Finalist, Service Journalism, Independent, Online Journalism Awards 2001. A superbly navigable Web site that informed New York City voters about 400 candidates running in 70 races, the largest turnover in city history. “It did everything I ever wanted to do in an election,” said one of the editors on the judging panel.
Checking if someone is dead or alive
March 22, 2002
How to quickly check to see if a celebrity or politician is still breathing.
CNET News.com: Buying Into Trouble
March 18, 2002
Winner, 2001 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Online Investigative Reporting award (Independent). The judges issued this award for the package’s “insight into the workings of a large software company.”
Ax and Tax, Seattle Times
March 15, 2002
Balancing government budgets is never easy. The Seattle Times put together a clever way of demonstrating the tough choices officials have to make: an interactive balance the budget exercise. Can you balance Washington state’s $1.6 billion budget gap?
What Readers Want
March 14, 2002
Ever wonder what would happen if journalists gave readers the power to select the top stories? The major news sites have a few pages that give you a glimpse of what reader-selected covers might look like. Think of these as reader-generated front pages. Reading them is like reading news sites where the readers are making the editorial decisions. How do readers’ choices stack up against the pros’? You be the judge.
Free Newspaper Archives
March 14, 2002
If your newsroom can’t afford to give everyone individual LexisNexis accounts — and most can’t — there are some good free options for searching newspaper archives online.
Writing for Multimedia and the Web
March 13, 2002
Writing for Multimedia and the Web
by Timothy Garrand
This book focuses more on multimedia authoring than on journalism. It includes case studies on the included CD-ROM, though they are dated now.
Journalism and New Media
March 13, 2002
by John Vernon Pavlik, Seymour Topping
This book argues that the new media can revitalize news gathering and reengage an increasingly distrustful and alienated citizenry. It is a primarily academic treatment, with plenty of facts and figures but not a lot of practical tips for working journalists.
Free MP3s
March 11, 2002
Newspaper sites are increasingly offering free MP3 downloads of local bands — it’s legal, a great service to readers and great free publicity for the groups. Among the sites offering this service are Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com, Projo.com, OnlineAthens.com, CapeCodOnline.com and The Topeka Capital-Journal’s RockKansas.com.