JOUR 3322 Online Journalism

Great timeline tool

Here is a Tumblr site of resources for verifying the information you find online.

The photo of the actual iceberg that sunk the Titanic has been artificially colorized so that you see the red gash the Titanic left in the ice. You can't see it in the original BW photo. So, which is more accurate, the original or colorized version? What would be the best way to think about this question?

Here's a tool that allows you to make, virtually free, the sort of multimedia story the NYTimes made with Snow Fall

SEOs and Headlines: This 2009 On the Media story still holds water. You can read the transcript or download the podcast

Is SEO killing a time-honored journalistic art form?

This story is a great example of breaking up online narrative with subheads and multimedia components. Shelby sent the link for us to discuss in class.

Searchable index of every tweet ever tweeted.

Highlights from Pew survey

This is the next "disruption" for traditional news media. We'll take a look at the highlights of this study together in class tomorrow.

Very interesting story about a new report from the folks at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard (major, huge, prestigious journalism think tank) and what Twitter is doing to campaign coverage. Things have changed A LOT since I was covering George W. Bush on the presidential campaign trail in 2000. See what you think....

Your classmate, Colin, has asked about covering the Texas Tribune festival for the first major class assignment. The student fee is $50, but if you are covering the festival for student media, you can apply for a press pass and not pay a fee. Here is a proposal: If you all decided you wanted to do this for the first Major Assignment, I would push back the deadline and assign each of you a specific angle on the festival. You would benefit in your Storify from having the whole class at one event (I'm sure there will be tons of Twitter/social media traffic anyway from this thing) and we could pitch this to Hilltop Views as comprehensive coverage. The whole class doesn't need to sign on though. If one or two of you is interested, let me know and I will send you the link for applying for a press pass and give you each a specific angle/assignment to do so. Again, you would offer this coverage to Hilltop Views for Life&Arts. (One of the Online Editors-in-Chief is in your class, Hannah Thornby). Check out the link and then we can talk about this tomorrow in class. See you then.

One of your classmates said there was problem with the link, so I am re-sending. Also, someone else asked for details of the blogging assignment. Remember, you are to research Reddit. Get on the site, look around and then find out, from it and other sources, what, if any, remedies the participants in the Tripathi timeline offered to correct their errors. What did they do? Was it enough, in your opinion? Base your blog post on your research (hyperlinking, remember, is attribution in digital journalism)