Best Organizational Practices for Those with Jobs in Journalism

Facing the biggest writing project of my journalism career, I recently found myself needing to get organized, really organized. That is a first - I'm a bit of a slob as far as information management is concerned.
Julio Ojeda-Zapata
(07/01/2008)

Diversity Is Core of DailyMe's Personalized Newspapers

Eduardo Hauser, founder of DailyMe, is bringing the business back to online news and making diversity a part of the personal news experience. By Kara Andrade (4/28/2008)

With easy, affordable tools, anyone can be a video journalist

Real-life technology has a way of catching up with what's in sci-fi flicks.

Julio Ojeda-Zapata
(02/21/2008)

Are you using Web 2.0 Tools in your newsroom?

The number of free online tools that can be used to create video, audio and text, manage content and distribute it online can be daunting and even mind-numbing for any journalist who tries to keep up. While I enjoy finding and using these tools (it's similar to scouring thrift stores), many reporters wonder which are actually useful. Kara Andrade (1/10/2008)

 


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Much of today's media coverage breaks the country into black and white, North and South, male and female. Doing so fails to capture the complexity of American life that journalists need to portray.

Based on the late Robert C. Maynard's belief that the five fault lines of race, class, gender, generation and geography are the most enduring forces shaping lives, experiences and social tensions in this country, the Maynard Institute's Fault Lines framework helps journalists build a more diverse source list, have more voices in stories and determine which fault lines are at work in complex issues.
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Ed Bradley
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