How to Find Great Photos for Your Newspaper or Website - Without Violating Copyright

How to Find Great Photos for Your Newspaper or Website - Without Violating Copyright

Reflections of a Newsosaur: A digital publishing model that works

Reflections of a Newsosaur: A digital publishing model that works

Let’s blow up the news story and build new forms of journalism

by Bill Adair

I am optimistic about the future of journalism. I see this as a moment of promise when we can take advantage of these new platforms. But to do it, we really need to blow up the old forms.
Read Bill Adair's post on Poynter here:http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/178038/lets-blow-up-the-news-story-and-build-new-forms-of-journalism/

A complicated story told on all platforms

One In A Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery

The 2011 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting was awarded to Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal for their "lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images."

See how they packaged their story across all platforms here:

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/111224104.html

Twitter helps TTN bag the Pulitzer

How The Tuscaloosa News’ post-tornado tweeting helped bring home a Pulitzer Prize

by Jeff Sonderman

The Pulitzer prize for Breaking News went to a small newspaper that combined old-fashioned field reporting with a new tool, Twitter, after a tornado devastated swaths of Tuscaloosa, Ala., on April 27, 2011.

Read the story here:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/170607/how-the-tuscaloosa-news-post-tornado-tweeting-helped-bring-home-a-pulitzer-prize/

Check out Forbes new homepage

Inside Forbes: The 5 Reasons Behind Our Bold New Home Page

Stop the Digital Presses: 
FORBES is disrupting 
the media model for news.

I have this thing about home pages of news and information sites. They pretty much all look, feel and function the same — equal parts overwhelming, lifeless, a chore to navigate. A colleague of mine calls it “user punishment.” On CNN.com, I recently counted 315 links (373 if you include the 58 links in two drop-down menus). AOL.com, a quasi news site, asks you to click through a 40-slide module to find what might interest you. Others blind you with a mishmash of bright colors, squares, rectangles and circles. More telling, every one is a throwback to another era. Editors present their agenda as if it’s the only one that matters.

Read Lewis DVorkin's post here

http://blogs.forbes.com/lewisdvorkin/

5 Ways Journalists Can Use Pinterest

Does Pinterest, the digital pinboard site, have value as a tool for journalists?

Of course it does writes Elana Zak if you want to:

1. Share The News

2. Give Your Audience a Preview of What’s Next

3. Showcase Photo Galleries, Profiles, and Features

4. Show Off Your Reporting Staff 

5. Invite Readers To Participate

Read Elana Zak's post here:

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/5-ways-news-organizations-can-use-pinterest_b9897