The main feature story in this week’s St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times “Weekend” section is told through photos that were captured solely on an iPhone. The photos are of iconic places all along St. Pete Beach.
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Most newspaper Web sites have user-generated photo galleries, for which the organization passively solicits photos from the audience on different topics and local events. Tribune Interactive has taken user-generated content to a more proactive level this year, by seeking out photos posted on Flickr, a popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo!, and then posting […]

So here’s The Guardian’s crowdsourcing tool for MPs’ expenses. If you’ve not already, you should have a play: it’s a dream. There are over 77,000 documents to get through - and in less than 24 hours users have gone through over 50,000 of those. You wonder how long it took The Telegraph to get that […]

The Medill School of Journalism’s Washington Program, which I co-direct, has taken on ambitious investigative projects for years, but the Pentagon Travel project unveiled Wednesday reflects how our new curriculum’s focus on telling stories across platforms helps shape work with data.Medill, with the help of adjunct lecturer Stephen Henn, acquired a decade’s worth of records […]

Displaced journalists looking to make some money and keep up with their reporting and editing skills may find it tougher than usual these days to find freelance gigs.At least some journalists, though, are finding pockets of profit elsewhere, realizing that the path to preserving their skills may not involve a news organization. One place they’re […]

Two tech titans, Google and Yahoo!, announced exciting new products for creating location-based content on digital platforms at the Where 2.0 tech conference in San Jose this week.Taj Campbell from the Google Geo Developers Blog made the official Web announcement of the new Google Maps Data API on Wednesday, saying…
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Back in March Journalism.co.uk interviewed Mark Rock, CEO of Audioboo - a new audio service based on a iPhone application, which uploads short sound clips or ‘boos’ to an account.The following week users uploading G20 boos nearly toppled the site, while Guardian journalist Matthew Weaver’s clips were embedded in articles and as an audio map.
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There are two important additions to the Society for News Design Web site.Tools for News is an online database for journalists who want to learn as much as they can about tools, new developments and tips for working online, from audio and video to blogging, data visualization and more.
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These days, online news only really succeeds if it can be easily and quickly found. On Feb. 11, Google’s Abe Epton posted to the official Google News blog a list of eight ways to help Google News better crawl your site.This advice isn’t new, but it’s a good reminder. Because in an era when Google […]

In this Journalism.co.uk series Brian Clifton, senior strategist with Omega Digital and former Google EMEA head of web analytics, looks at how publishers can make sense of online analytics.Part two looks at the differences between off-site and on-site analytics, while part three suggests how you can use web analytics to build an accurate picture of […]