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1. The News Frontier

   Inside the Haiti Earthquake: a Simulation

   November 11, 2010 03:50 PM

   After I wrote about the Toronto Star’s excellent multimedia coverage of the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath, I was alerted to another Canadian organization's impressive interactive project on the same topic. “Inside the Haiti Earthquake” is a first-person... Continue reading

2. The News Frontier

   IWMF Grant for Women in Digital Media

   November 11, 2010 01:30 PM

   The International Women’s Media Foundation is awarding three grants of $20,000 each to female journalists “who aspire to be new media entrepreneurs” in the “global digital media frontier,” according to the IWMF website. The grants will go... Continue reading

3. Darts and Laurels

   Darts and Laurels

   November 11, 2010 08:00 AM

   In 2008, L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek learned that the Los Angeles Police Department had recently dedicated a secret task force to investigate the connection between several unsolved murders in the city from 2002 and 2007 and a number... Continue reading

4. The News Frontier

   Amid Industry Turmoil, “The New Journalism Ecosystem” Thrives

   November 10, 2010 05:35 PM

   Investigative Reporting Workshop founder Charles Lewis offers a few sobering—though unfortunately unsurprising—PEJ statistics in the introduction to his latest report about the “new journalism ecosystem.” For example, from 1980 to 2005, the number of newspaper reporters covering... Continue reading

5. The News Frontier

   Some Stories are “Un-Webbable”

   November 10, 2010 01:00 PM

   The Hearst Foundation and Columbia University’s J-School Digital Media Program hosted its annual panel on Tuesday night, entitled “The Changing Media Landscape.” Panelists from Reuters, The Washington Post, Mashable, Tumblr, and Impremedia discussed changes in the business: social... Continue reading

6. The News Frontier

   Virtual Haiti

   November 9, 2010 03:10 PM

   The earthquake that rocked Haiti in January leveled its capital, killed at least 230,000 people, and made another million homeless. Almost one year later, with so much of the country still damaged, how do news sites continue to... Continue reading

7. The News Frontier

   “Help, I Don’t Understand”

   November 9, 2010 12:25 PM

   Bob Woodward plays the straight man himself to Ben Bradlee’s zany future-thinking exec in this new Washington Post video for its iPad app. I really want to believe this is what goes on in the Post newsroom. And that Woodward... Continue reading

8. The News Frontier

   Local Ad Networks Bring Home the Bacon

   November 8, 2010 11:45 AM

   When Washington, D.C. local news site TBD.com launched in August, it got a fair amount of attention for the blog network with which it shares content and, potentially, advertising. When it launched, the TBD network had about <a... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   The News That Wasn’t

   November 8, 2010 10:50 AM

   Fans of the late William Safire know that before he was a the New York Times Magazine “On Language” columnist, he was a speechwriter for President Nixon. On Friday, the blog Letters of Note unearthed the speech from... Continue reading

10. Behind the News

    Olbermann Isn’t Alone

    November 5, 2010 03:30 PM

    Countdown host Keith Olbermann has just been indefinitely suspended for donating money to three Democratic campaigns, and thereby violating MSNBC policy. MSNBC president Phil Griffin says he learned of the contributions last night; it was first reported by... Continue reading

11. The News Frontier

    Yahoo’s Ask America Infographic

    November 5, 2010 01:45 PM

    In anticipation of the midterm elections, Yahoo created an interactive project called Ask America, part of which is the “Issues Wheel,” a method of measuring popular opinion on key political issues. “LEARN. LISTEN. BE HEARD,” declares the home... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    BBC Journalists’ Strike is On

    November 5, 2010 11:55 AM

    Our colleagues across the pond have initiated a two-day strike over pension benefits, the AP reports. Some radio and TV programs are operating on skeleton crews, and others have been cancelled altogether: the revised schedule is on the... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Hey Bernanke, Say It Again…in English

    November 4, 2010 04:00 PM

    When Slate’s Jeremy Singer-Vine debuted the “Plain English” tool on Slate Labs, I was curious to see how people would take advantage of it. It’s a program that translates meaningless jargon into, well, plain English. It’s kind of... Continue reading

14. The News Frontier

    Interactivity on a Budget

    November 4, 2010 11:55 AM

    Earlier this week I did a quick rundown of some eye-catching interactive graphics that newsrooms at papers like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal rolled out for Election Day. It would be unfair, though, to... Continue reading

15. The News Frontier

    Election Day Tools, Maps, and Graphics

    November 2, 2010 02:15 PM

    Election Day is an occasion for high drama on the Internet: data coming in all day and night, polls, pundits, analysis, voting booth mishap stories, Twitterers typing away until the dreaded “over capacity” whale appears. It’s also the perfect occasion... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Don’t Forget the Facts About NPR Funding

    October 28, 2010 11:42 AM

    Juan William’s abrupt firing from NPR and hiring by Fox News seems to have kicked up an old debate over whether public radio should still receive federal funding. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has funded public radio since... Continue reading

17. The News Frontier

    Visualizing the Iraq War Logs

    October 27, 2010 12:55 PM

    When WikiLeaks gave seven news organizations access to 400,000 previously classified military documents pertaining to the Iraq war, one of many challenges that those organizations faced was how, if possible, to try to visually depict some of the... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    CNN Stoops to Tabloid Nonsense in Assange Interview

    October 25, 2010 03:53 PM

    CNN reporter Atika Shubert sat down for an interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange this weekend, and it did not go well. Shubert hounded him on inane topics like interpersonal conflicts at his company and legal troubles in Sweden, until... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    U.S. Corporate Interest and the Chamber of Secrets

    October 22, 2010 03:45 PM

    The New York Times has a front page story today about some sizable corporate donations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for the Chamber’s national ad campaign to weaken federal regulation of businesses. Laura McGann at... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    What to Do When Commenters Attack?

    October 22, 2010 02:03 PM

    On the occasion of the Portland Press Herald debacle (about which more here), Poynter’s Damon Kiesow has a great roundup of various strategies that news sites are testing to deal with chaotic comment sections.... Continue reading

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