What’s your digital strategy? First, get a grip

REFLECTIONS OF A NEWSOSAUR MUSINGS (AND OCCASIONAL URGENT WARNINGS) OF A VETERAN MEDIA EXECUTIVE, WHO FEARS OUR NEWS-GATHERING COMPANIES ARE STUMBLING TO EXTINCTION By Alan D. Mut­ter, June 5, 2013 More often than you would think, an edi­tor or pub­lisher will con­tact me to ask, “What should my dig­i­tal strat­egy be?” The inquiry is alarm­ing on a […]

Job: Digital Media War Room Chief in DC

DDC Advo­cacy is look­ing for a tal­ented and pas­sion­ate Dig­i­tal Media Man­ager to join our Advo­cacy Ser­vices team. This per­son will be respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing a team of asso­ciates mon­i­tor­ing, track­ing, and ana­lyz­ing large quan­ti­ties of online, dig­i­tal, and tra­di­tional media cov­er­age for mul­ti­ple clients.

Knight’s Data-Centric News Challenge Winners

By Joshua Ben­ton, Nie­man Jour­nal­ism Lab Sept. 20, 2012 Today at the Online News Association’s annual con­fer­ence in San Fran­cisco, the Knight Foun­da­tion will present its newest class of Knight News Chal­lenge win­ners. This cycle — the sec­ond of three this year under Knight’s new harder-better-faster-stronger con­test régime — was focused on data, and the six win­ners are unusu­ally tool-heavy — […]

Apply: Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley

Join KDMC for our Mul­ti­me­dia Sto­ry­telling Insti­tute. This two-week pro­gram, led by UC Berke­ley staff with pre­sen­ta­tions from award-winning fac­ulty and indus­try lead­ers will give you the skills to dis­tin­guish you as an expert in dig­i­tal media. When: June 18–29, 2012 Where: Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter at Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia Berke­ley Why: You’ll Learn Lots — Technique, […]

Knight’s Multimedia Storytelling Workshop

Editor’s note: I strongly rec­om­mend that you apply for this Mul­ti­me­dia Sto­ry­telling Insti­tute work­shop at the Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter, UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism. My expe­ri­ence at a KDMC work­shop for jour­nal­ists inter­ested in mul­ti­me­dia sto­ry­telling was amaz­ing. I know Voice Coach Mar­i­lyn Pittman and the oth­ers lead­ing the work­shop. They’re super­stars. You won’t […]

Video Brings WWII Black Marines Story Alive

Editor’s note: Joe Swickard wrote the story and Eric Seals cre­ated the stun­ning video for this Detroit Free Press pack­age on the first African-American Marines. It’s a great exam­ple of how video enhances a news story. It also demon­strates the rea­son we as dis­placed jour­nal­ists need to develop dig­i­tal media skills. On Oct. 25 the […]

Poynter’s Digital Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Your Online Business

Editor’s note: The Poyn­ter Insti­tute in St. Peters­burg, Fla., is tak­ing appli­ca­tions for its August work­shop in entre­pre­neur­ial jour­nal­ism. I attended this work­shop last July. I learned a great deal about start­ing my own busi­ness and how to make the most of my skills and ideas in the dig­i­tal news and infor­ma­tion mar­ket­place. I reworked […]

Reminder: Maynard multimedia fellow deadline

Dis­placed Jour­nal­ists: Apply by April 15 at 11:59 PDT to receive a mul­ti­me­dia edit­ing fel­low­ship from the May­nard Insti­tute at the Reynolds School of Jour­nal­ism, Uni­ver­sity of Nevado-Reno.

News Certified Exchange: a trusted source database

News Cer­ti­fied Exchange (NCE) offers jour­nal­ists a cer­ti­fied, highly vet­ted mul­ti­me­dia data­base of sources they can trust, sources they can turn to to pro­vide fresh view­points and bet­ter coverage.

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: What to do when there’s naught to do

By Jules Older When you’re out of work, or, put more gen­teelly, under­em­ployed, what do you do with your new­found leisure time? By ‘leisure time,’ I mean time nobody’s pay­ing you to use. Everybody’s dif­fer­ent in needs, time, mort­gages and incli­na­tion, but I know what’s work­ing for me. In hopes that some of it will work for […]

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        Is there life – or work – after news­pa­pers? A lot of us are in the process of find­ing out. Because it’s gen­er­ally a some­what lonely endeavor, it struck me, in Jan­u­ary 2010, that it might be com­fort­ing – and pos­si­bly very pro­duc­tive – to go through it together.

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