The Future of News

Ryan Thornburg

Posts Tagged ‘Andrew Dunn’

Bootcamp: Data Driven Journalism

So much of the training and retraining of journalists seems to be focused on getting them to be multimedia reporters, backpack journalists or one of the other buzzwords we use for collecting audio and visual content and presenting it online.

Multimedia is one of three things that make online journalism different from offline journalism, but the other two things — interactivity and user-control — depend largely on journalists understanding data driven journalism. This isn’t about numbers, but about structured data. Here’s a bootcamp that’s intended to introduce journalists to the tools and concepts of structured data and data driven journalism.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ryan Thornburg

February 3, 2009 at 6:23 am

Posted in Innovation, Interactive Journalism, Top Menu, Tutorials

Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Activist’s Death Takes Toll on Newspapers

If Chapel Hill had a patron saint of town-gown relations, it might have been Rebecca Clark. The 93-year-old woman was not only a leader in the area’s black community, but the mother of the late Doug Clark, who entertained generations of frat parties with his band, The Hot Nuts.

Ms. Clark died on Saturday. But the Triangle’s newspapers should ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ryan Thornburg

January 7, 2009 at 11:22 am

Posted in Interactive Journalism, N.C. Journalism, Research Questions

Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Computers, Humans and Journalism

I’d agree with this post from Andria Krewson — “technology will not replace human contact that reminds government employees to provide public information to the public.” Hopefully that elicits a big fat “no-duh” from most readers of this blog. But here’s how people and machines will work in newsrooms of the future …

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ryan Thornburg

January 6, 2009 at 11:04 am

Posted in Innovation, Online Newsrooms, Top Menu

Tagged with , ,

‘Think Romanesko When He Was 20′

Collegerag.net is a site launched yesterday by two UNC-Chapel Hill journalism students, Sara Gregory and Andrew Dunn.

Read the rest of this entry »

Written by Ryan Thornburg

September 9, 2008 at 8:50 pm

Posted in College Media, Multimedia Journalism

Tagged with , , ,

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.