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Feeding election totals directly into your website from Google Docs
Like most newsrooms, we track vote totals precinct by precinct over the course of an election night, with some precincts reporting almost as soon as polls close and others taking two or three hours. Our web platform includes a nice-looking … Continue reading
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Learning Web development: The sequel
I just discovered, via Greg Linch, Lisa Williams’ blog about learning to program as a summer project. Despite the best intentions, I’ve fallen behind on my own plans in that area, so Lisa’s project inspired me to take stock of … Continue reading
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When I helped a college newspaper get set up with WordPress a few years ago, I kept running into little ways in which making WordPress work for a multi-person news organization was … well, usually not impossible, but often a … Continue reading
10 things that could go into a community engagement editor’s job description
This Nieman Lab post about Voice of San Diego‘s search for an “engagement editor” got me thinking about all the things somebody in that kind of position could do — and just how far the potential extends. OK, sure, they’d … Continue reading
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Building reference material into news sites
Two recent posts dealing with building static (or relatively static) reference material into news sites to augment the flow of day-to-day news … and, yes, this is one of those posts that’s more for my own future reference than anything … Continue reading
Why my new year’s resolution is to learn about programming
I’ve found myself quoting Steve Buttry a lot lately, particularly his posts about innovation in the news business. In an August 2009 post titled “Newspapers’ original sin: Not failing to charge but failing to innovate,” he wrote: The disastrous error … Continue reading
Notes on Pew’s “where news comes from” study
A “where news comes from” study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the vast majority of original reporting on six major news stories in Baltimore, Md., came from newspapers. A nice little ego boost, … Continue reading
My first journalism job
From 1989 to 1992, Pamela Hughes’ class at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod published a class newspaper called The Waldorf Weekly. We published 11 editions in all: six in third grade, four in fourth grade and one in fifth … Continue reading
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The news as food: An analogy for the citizen journalism debate
Jay Rosen recently interviewed Dirck Halstead, editor and publisher of The Digital Journalist, about that publication’s December 2009 editorial, titled “Let’s Abolish ‘Citizen Journalists’.” Others have done a far better job than I can of addressing the editorial’s arguments (see … Continue reading
90K print jobs lost? What’s a “print job”?
Gawker says: “Nearly 90,000 print jobs have been lost in the last year.” I say: “What’s a print job?” Newspapers and magazines are considered part of the print publishing category. Which makes sense to a large extent. But I suspect … Continue reading