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2013
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Video: Highlights from the 2013 Online Journalism Awards
Boston bombing coverage by students and professionals, and stories based on leaked NSA files highlighted the 2013 Online Journalism Awards at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Ga. (Read more)…
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Boston bombs, NSA top awards
Boston bombing coverage and the NSA files highlighted the 2013 Online Journalism Awards at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atlanta, Ga. Boston University News Service won two awards for its…
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ONA13 illustrated
There’s audio backed up on Soundcloud, video archives, Storify curations and 37,178 tweets (and counting) documenting the panels and discussions at ONA13. It’s not exactly an underreported topic. But as…
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Analyzing ONA registration
What’s in name in a name? Which media outlet has the most people here? These are a few answers we came across after analyzing attendance registration data for this year’s…
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Smart or Dumb?
If you're at ONA, you probably have a smartphone (and then some). But the majority of people around the world -- and certain demographics -- in the U.S. only have dumbphones, old-school cell phones without internet or data plans. Take our quiz, based on an ONA talk by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism professor Susan McGregor and a recent Pew Research Center study, to find out if you should be thinking more about designing for phones that only have voice and text capabilities.
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You are what you tweet
Tweet, tweet, tweet — right? But don’t forget to bring value to users, use your best judgment and know how to use the social medium for reporting. Here are Twitter…
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Don’t be scared of the data
Sites like Code Academy exist to help people learn code, but there’s not a comprehensive online community platform specifically tailored to journalists. The launch of For Journalism may fill that…
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Four questions about video – with surprising answers
Panelists from Google, Storyful, the Washington Post and National Geographic discussed “The Power of Video Now” in a session mid-Saturday. Here are four key questions and answers the session generated. For…
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Kickstarter launches careers and innovations
Luke Rafferty had an idea. The sophomore photojournalism major at Syracuse University, who is part of the ONA Student Newsroom, has always loved people who created, and he wanted to…
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Why David Carr thinks your (media outlet’s) looks are important
What can you create? That’s a key question facing the media in a tech-obsessed industry focused on creation, start-ups and niche publications. Between sessions at ONA13, I chatted on the…
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