Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
So much of the training and retraining of journalists seems to be focused on getting them to be multimedia reporters, backpack journalists or one of the other buzzwords we use for collecting audio and visual content and presenting it online.
Multimedia is one of three things that make online journalism different from offline journalism, but the other two things — interactivity and user-control — depend largely on journalists understanding data driven journalism. This isn’t about numbers, but about structured data. Here’s a bootcamp that’s intended to introduce journalists to the tools and concepts of structured data and data driven journalism.
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Tags: Adrian Holovaty, Andrew Dunn, Caspio, data, databases, Derek Willis, Excel, Google, Ken Sands, maps, Phil Meyer, Precision Journalism, Simile, SMPA 130, spreadsheets, SQL, structured data, Swivel, Tabelizer
Posted in Innovation, Interactive Journalism, Journalism Education | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
If Chapel Hill had a patron saint of town-gown relations, it might have been Rebecca Clark. The 93-year-old woman was not only a leader in the area’s black community, but the mother of the late Doug Clark, who entertained generations of frat parties with his band, The Hot Nuts.
Ms. Clark died on Saturday. But the Triangle’s newspapers should ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
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Tags: Andrew Dunn, audience, Carrboro Citizen, Chapel Hill News, citizen journalism, Durham Herald-Sun, Joe Schwartz, Kirk Ross, N&O, OrangePolitics, Rebecca Clark, Ruby Sinriech, Twitter, WCHL
Posted in Interactive Journalism, N.C. Journalism, Research Questions | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I’d agree with this post from Andria Krewson — “technology will not replace human contact that reminds government employees to provide public information to the public.” Hopefully that elicits a big fat “no-duh” from most readers of this blog. But here’s how people and machines will work in newsrooms of the future …
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Tags: Andrea Krewson, Andrew Dunn, copyediting
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Collegerag.net is a site launched yesterday by two UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students, Sara Gregory and Andrew Dunn.
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Tags: Andaman Rising, Andrew Dunn, collegerag.net, Sara Gregory
Posted in College Media, Multimedia Journalism | 1 Comment »