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18 May 2010 ~ 0 Comments

5 Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News

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In today’s Digital landscape the way we produce and deliver news changes almost on a daily basis.   Recently, I spent a week at USC’s KDMC, Knight Digital Media Center as part of an entrepreneurial journalism fellowship, and talked about many things, from monetizing, to marketing, to content generation, and branding.    And as part of my [...]

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13 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Pulitzer to Online Journalist makes history

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Mark Fiore cartoonist with the San Francisco Chronicle has won the Pulitzer prize for his series of animated cartoon videos at SFGate.com “His biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary” Pulitzer Press Release “Fiore was competing against Tony Auth of The Philidelphia [...]

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01 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

WordPress for Journalists

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Recently enjoyed teaching a Worpdress, and a Backpack Digital Journalism workshop at Rice University in Houston as part of NAHJ’s Region 5 conference. We reviewed WP’s basics, how to set-up a news driven site at WordPress.com, and what it takes to move to your own hosted WordPress where you may have a higher customization level [...]

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01 April 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Have we been replaced? ABC “hires” robot reporters

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When I saw this I just had to laugh.  A $7.8 million dollar investment!! What do you think? ABC NEWS GOES ROBOTIC ABC News has purchased 28 “Madcat” robotic photographic units from BBN Technologies, a division of Raytheon, for an estimated $7.84 million. Some of the units will initially be assigned to European-based “one-man-band” news [...]

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31 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Google Maps How-To Videos

Just playing around with Google maps. I created this one with a series of photos of a student journalism project covering the Cesar Chavez march in San Antonio. I used a Canon Power Shot with an Eye-Fi Geo-tagging card.  The Eye-Fi card is able to wireless transmit the photos to my laptop, and up to [...]

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