The next Editors’ Roundtable, which will run on Monday, looks at a story on the tornado that hit Rainsville, Ala., earlier this month. Unfortunately, tragedy has struck again, and journalists have had to write additional disaster stories about the devastation of Joplin, Mo.
Next week we’ll provide an in-depth look at just the Rainsville piece, but [...]
Tag Archives: YouTube
What we’re watching: in which a battalion deploys, Ramadan ends, and a drawing unfolds to illustrate an argument
September 24, 2010 – 4:15 pm
Perhaps it’s just the nippy fall weather descending, but we have a multiplicity of crowdsourced, interactive and on-the-horizon projects. So, depending on your constitution, here are some nuggets of future-of-journalism ideas to make you itchy or jazz you up. Either way, you’ll have the weekend to work it out.
“A Year at War” from The New [...]
Short attention span theater: narrative and models of interaction
July 9, 2010 – 12:56 pm
[This post is the second in a series from new media artist Peggy Nelson considering the impact of technology on narrative. Nelson's work includes a barcode narrative, a PowerPoint essay, Twitter novels and a host of exciting new ways of looking at the idea of story. —Ed. ]
No one, it seems, has time to read [...]
Paul Raeburn, Ira Glass, and just some of the ways a story can go wrong
February 24, 2010 – 6:15 pm
Yesterday, Paul Raeburn at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker took the stuffing out of a New York Times medical piece. The story, by Gardiner Harris, reveals a secret recording of a 2007 meeting between a cardiologist and executives at a pharmaceutical company. Raeburn dinged it for both structure and content, writing that “sometimes a poorly [...]
