The News Frontier

Inside the Haiti Earthquake: a Simulation

Learn about the decisions made by survivors, aid workers, and journalists in a crisis

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 11, 2010 at 03:50 PM

After I wrote about the Toronto Star’s excellent multimedia coverage of the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath, I was alerted... More

IWMF Grant for Women in Digital Media

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 11, 2010 at 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... More

Amid Industry Turmoil, “The New Journalism Ecosystem” Thrives

i-Lab’s new database of investigative nonprofits

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 10, 2010 at 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... More

Some Stories are “Un-Webbable”

The Washington Post’s Mark Luckie on multimedia moderation

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 10, 2010 at 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... More

Virtual Haiti

The Toronto Star’s 360-degree photography shows the earthquake’s aftermath

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 9, 2010 at 03:10 PM

The earthquake that rocked Haiti in January leveled its capital, killed at least 230,000 people, and made another million homeless.... More

Launch Pad: Portland, Oregon

Two news entrepeneurs explain why they struck out on their own

By Michael Andersen and Barry Johnson   Nov 9, 2010 at 02:10 PM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. All of Michael... More

“Help, I Don’t Understand”

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 9, 2010 at 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... More

Local Ad Networks Bring Home the Bacon

Community sites team up to hire sales staff and share ad revenue

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 8, 2010 at 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... More

Yahoo’s Ask America Infographic

Pretty, but pretty dumb

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 5, 2010 at 01:45 PM

In anticipation of the midterm elections, Yahoo created an interactive project called Ask America, part of which is the “Issues... More

Interactivity on a Budget

How several smaller newsrooms dealt with election data

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 4, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Earlier this week I did a quick rundown of some eye-catching interactive graphics that newsrooms at papers like The New... More

Election Day Tools, Maps, and Graphics

A rundown of the best interactive projects online

By Lauren Kirchner   Nov 2, 2010 at 02:15 PM

Election Day is an occasion for high drama on the Internet: data coming in all day and night, polls, pundits,... More

Visualizing the Iraq War Logs

How The New York Times and The Guardian did it

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM

When WikiLeaks gave seven news organizations access to 400,000 previously classified military documents pertaining to the Iraq war, one of... More

How to Use ProPublica’s “Dollars for Docs” Database

Tips for reporters and editors

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 22, 2010 at 01:50 PM

Investigative innovator ProPublica launched a new project this week, a national database of doctors and the money they have received... More

Launch Pad: Remapping Debate

Why we’re taking in some articles from major outlets for “story repair”

By Craig Gurian   Oct 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM

CJR’s “Launch Pad” feature invites new media publishers to blog about their experiences on the news frontier. Craig Gurian’s previous... More

Community News: “Where’s the Money?”

Medill’s series on business models for news sites

By Lauren Kirchner   Oct 20, 2010 at 03:16 PM

Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School have been following up on last month’s Block by Block Community News Summit with... More