Jack D. Lail

Editors are safe for the moment, but this is an interesting experiment in news automation and an interesting way of determining what is “breaking news.”

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 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.

Above is a screen shot of Touchcast, a powerful tool for creating a new kind of video presentation. It's one of the tools listed in an awesome spreadsheet of tools of interest to journalist (most i've never heard of, much...

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

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.

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...

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.

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.