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Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life. The greatest share of participants in this canvassing said their own experience and their observed experience among friends is that digital life improves many of the dimensions of their work, play and home lives.

Stories From Experts About the Impact of Digital Life

They cited broad changes for the better as the internet revolutionized everything, from the most pressing intellectual and emotional experiences to some of the most prosaic and everyday aspects of existence. Louis Rossetto, self-proclaimed “troublemaker” and founder and former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, summed it all up this way: “Digital technology is so broad today as to encompass almost everything. No product is made today, no person moves today, nothing is collected, analyzed or communicated without some ‘digital technology’ being an integral part of it. Syllabi Archives. Syllabi This syllabus offers faculty a guide for teaching basic data journalism skills, including statistical and visualization techniques, over a 13-week semester.

Syllabi Archives

Campaign Media Semester-long course on political reporting, including covering governance in the United States, the democratic process, and how to cover elections, Culture. Political reporting syllabus (updated 2016): Covering elections, governance and the democratic process. This course teaches students the fundamentals of covering the American political world, as well as larger concepts that can help generate deeper context and understanding.

Political reporting syllabus (updated 2016): Covering elections, governance and the democratic process

Many reporters at some time in their careers are tossed into covering local races for school boards, city councils or county offices. Others make careers out of covering large city governments or state and federal government. This course is designed to provide a broad overview of this beat, from the grassroots to the White House. The animating idea of this syllabus is that political reporting should be informed by deeper knowledge. First Draft News. Digital. What journalists can learn from scientists and the scientific method. I don’t need to tell you that the Scientific Revolution kickstarted the modern age.

What journalists can learn from scientists and the scientific method

Kevin Kelly lists the discovery of the scientific method alongside the invention of libraries and the printing press as “meta-changes” -- the evolution of evolution, changes in the ways things change. The scientific method -- the foundation of modern science -- was a way to systematize knowledge production. Once discovered, it became a discovery-producing machine. Humankind had developed a way to both ask better questions about the nature of the world and to continually find better answers to those questions. Soon, the tools of this discovery-producing machine began to improve; we devised techniques such as double-blind studies and placebos. But the scientific method isn’t a single thing. Journalistic Method: Observation Techniques for Authors (Part 1) Without doubt, one of the best places to learn the craft of writing is in the professional newsroom.

Journalistic Method: Observation Techniques for Authors (Part 1)

The number of successful authors of fiction and non-fiction books, who began their careers as journalists, is remarkable. Syllabi Archives. InfoDisorder glossary. First Draft News. Tip sheets Archives. Reporting Our new tip sheet outlines 11 questions journalists should ask to help them decide how to frame the findings of a public opinion poll — or cover them at all.

Tip sheets Archives

Elizabeth Arnold explains how public apathy about climate change is partly journalists' fault and offers tips to improve their coverage. Privacy engineer Dipayan Ghosh offers tips to help journalists improve their coverage of data security and privacy issues, including the GDPR. The journalistic method: Five principles for blending analysis and narrative.

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The journalistic method: Five principles for blending analysis and narrative

Amazon. What journalists need to know about Web design. Fifty milliseconds.

What journalists need to know about Web design

That’s how quickly visitors can form strong, long-lasting impressions about your news or information website. But they aren’t sizing up the quality of your content or the sophistication of your code. They’re making nearly instantaneous, mostly subconscious judgments about how your work has been designed. The Verge.

91 Journalism Blogs and Websites You Will Love. Columbia Journalism Review - The voice of journalism. A Society of Professional Journalists Blog. Interviewing resources and transcriptions tools IJNET Video: 5 Transcription Tools for Journalists WayWithWords Transcription tool.

A Society of Professional Journalists Blog

Nibity transcription tool Verit.ai transcription Transcribe Me Deepgram Free audio transcription tool. ReportexTranscribe and edit audio clips in your browser. VoiceBase.com Machine transcribed video tools. $50 free credits to start. Poynter’s Writing Process and Resources for Writers. Looking to become a better writer?

Poynter’s Writing Process and Resources for Writers

Poynter's Roy Peter Clark offers some steps for writing to help you on your journey. Here are our 10 favorite online writing courses to help you master your craft. Step 1: Explore. Typing test, typing lessons, practice touch typing, typing exercise. oTranscribe. 28+ Apps That Make Your Journalist’s Life Easier Than Ever. Staying on top of what’s happening in the world 5. BriefMe used by catherine.rogers BriefMe is a mobile news ranking app that shows you what the world is reading right now. Private. Untracked. Anonymous. A Society of Professional Journalists Blog. 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization – ReadWrite.

The Data Journalism Handbook. 100 books every journalist must read - John Kroll Digital. A young journalism student once asked a newspaper editor what she should do to prepare for her hoped-for career as a political reporter. “Read,” the editor said. Absolutely, I thought, sitting between them, waiting for my own interview for a top job to resume.