Fran Bi is a storytelling engineer for SBNation. His focus is on taking sports features and finding new ways to tell them. "So, a lot of that is with graphics, whether it’s data visualizations or animations or any type of movement or something else where we …
As an investigative reporter, Brendan Keefe of WXIA-TV in Atlanta is accustomed to people assuming he works with more than one photographer when shooting his trademark long-form interviews. When his stories air, viewers see him asking questions on camera and interviewees responding from several different …
Backpack journalist, MMJ or SoJo. Any number of names are given to broadcast journalists who do it all, from reporting to shooting to writing and presenting. Juggling those tasks is hard enough, but throw in the solo live shot and you need some strategies. Morgan Burger …
John McGuire and Ray Murray, associate professors at Oklahoma State University, interviewed 18 sports journalists at The Oklahoman and the Tulsa World to gather information on how the new demands of social media and the 24-hour news cycle were affecting their job satisfaction. Based on those …
When you produce a story, are you thinking of how people are going to consume it? Mick Côté, digital news editor at The Canadian Press, says that in most newsrooms the answer is typically, "No." And that's a shame. "We’re so drawn to our own stuff we …
My hometown newspaper, The Washington Post, has been rocketing up the comScore rankings of top digital media companies. Last August, it wasn't even in the top 50. Two months later, the Post ranked 36th, beating the New York Times (37th) for the first time ever. How much of that improvement is …
Add another plaque on the wall for New Orleans investigative reporter Lee Zurik of WVUE. His series Louisiana Purchased, co-produced with the Times-Picayune's NOLA.com, just won IRE's small-market broadcast award. The investigation of campaign finance in Louisiana "exposed...direct influence peddling going on across the state," the judges wrote. The …
With newsrooms placing more and more emphasis on social media, basic blogging may seem to have lost its value for journalists. Not so, says John Ensslin who writes the Bergen Beat blog for NorthJersey.com, the website of The Record newspaper. He says people who care about …
It's a perennial question and the answer keeps changing: What are TV news directors today looking for in new hires? For Geoff Roth, who's building a new television newsroom from the ground up at Fox 46 in Charlotte, N.C., the list is long and challenging. …
When you get something wrong in a news story, how do you make it right? Newsroom policies--if they even exist--usually cover the timing and placement of corrections in legacy media and online, but social media are rarely mentioned. That's a big oversight, considering that errors …
What happened on Reddit after the Boston Marathon bombings may have scared many journalists away from the site. NPR tech reporter Elise Hu believes that's a shame. The self-described "front page of the Internet" became a hive of misinformation, as users posted theories about the bombing and falsely identified suspects. …
You're working on an exclusive story for tonight and the Web and social media team wants a piece of it, hours before air. Should you share? If you thought that question had been laid to rest years ago, think again. In some newsrooms, the answer …
