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Citizen Videos-A Primer for Reporters-Authentication

By Guest Blogger, January 28, 2013

In this second part of our series on citizen videos, we look at the issue of authenticity and best practices for validating the information before releasing the video to your audience.

Telling Stories in Different Mediums (and answering other questions about journalism)

By Jeremy Rue, November 15, 2010

I was contacted recently by a woman from University of West Scotland who was doing an assessment on the role of journalists in multimedia newsrooms, and she wanted to get an educator's perspective. She sent me the five following questions. I thought my responses might have broader interest, so I decided to use them in this week's blog post.

Data, journalism and your career

By Jerry Monti, October 11, 2010

What can a journalist do that provides high value to the news organization? What is the next tech skill that you can learn that will make you a "keeper" if there are more cutbacks? One answer to these questions is Data.

Takahashi Wins Scholarship to Poynter Programming Workshop

By Lanita Pace-Hinton, August 9, 2010

Congratulations to Corey Takahashi (Mar '10 and May '09) on receiving a scholarship from Hacks/Hackers to attend The Poynter Institute's workshop Programming for Journalists/Journalism for Programming. 

Takahashi, a Los Angeles-based independent journalist who attended the KDMC's Multimedia Reporting Workshop and the Web Publishing for Independent Journalists Workshop, has multiple works in play, including an interactive multimedia ...

What has art got to do with it?

By Jerry Monti, March 17, 2008

Can an art exhibition in New York help news organizations adapt to a 21st Century audience?