Journalism, Technology, History

Bot journalist reported California quake first

Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times , was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake. He rolled out of bed and went straight to his computer, where he found a brief story...

Google's spreadsheets just keep getting better

Google Sheets is an extremely powerful tool for journalists. If you’re a “math-challenged journalist,” you owe it to yourself to learn how to use Google Sheets.

Trends in online journalism 2014

**Top Trends in Online Journalism for 2014 ** from **[Chartbeat Real-time site data for front-line teams](https://www.slideshare.net/chartbeat)**

Police vs photos

Getting arrested for merely taking a photograph of a law enforcement officer doing his or her job is all too common. In Memphis, there’s a memo.

In search of the formula for gut instinct

Will news judgment eventually be reduced to a formula that can be charted or is it best practiced by those, like Neetzan Zimmerman, with a particularly good gut instinct for what is news, or at lesat what will grab reader’s...

Students reinventing journalism at MTSU

I’m interested to see what the “Bragg Innovative News Network” looks like when it launches Monday. The network was announced by Middle Tennessee State University earlier this week.

Paywalls aren't just for newspapers

Nice piece by NetNewsCheck on the plan by Cincinnati television station WCPO, owned by E.W. Scripps, to launch a paid-content model in January. “This is a very aggressive experiment, and I guess I’d be pleased if they’re scratching their heads...

Journalist Ernie Pyle's last column reads much like poetry

Ernie Pyle’s Last Column from James Brown on Vimeo. I had breakfast the other day in Indianapolis with my friend James W. “Jim” Brown. He turned me on this video he did recently about the last column Ernie Pyle wrote,...
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