Live Chat now: What students need to know about code and data viz
A stunning amount of data is available to journalists these days, and it is growing exponentially. Not surprisingly, the need for data journalists is expanding as well. Data-driven journalism is a...
View ArticleHow to tap into patient reviews of local hospitals
If you haven’t examined how your local hospitals performed in the latest Medicare surveys, you’re missing out on some important stories with high likely readership. Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News...
View ArticleUnderstanding opportunities and challenges in sponsored content (Replay chat)
Shane Snow, cofounder with two friends of Contently, manages a network of 25,000 freelancers. According to Contently’s website, the sweet spot where these freelancers thrive is creating content for...
View ArticleChat replay: covering pot when recreational use is legalized
As states move to lift local bans on marijuana use, reporters and editors are increasingly faced with the question of how to cover the drug as more than a crime story. Communities where pot is legal...
View ArticleLive chat replay: What happens when a journalism career breaks?
Thousands of journalists have had to pick up the pieces and start over because of layoffs, firings and downsizing. Warren Watson, executive director of the Society of American Business Editors and...
View ArticleLive chat replay: how to make LinkedIn work for you
With more than a quarter billion people using LinkedIn, almost 100 million of them in the United States, LinkedIn has reach. But how do you get the most out of it? What can it do for your career other...
View ArticleLive chat replay: What sports journalists need to know to compete
In remarks for the College Media Association conference in New York on March 13, Associated Press Vice President Lou Ferrara issued a wake-up call for sports reporters. He said traditional sports...
View ArticleLive chat replay: Will crowdfunding finance journalists?
The startup Beacon, one of the newer efforts to fund independent journalists, says it has signed up 100 journalists and several thousand subscribers. Shane Bauer is now featured on the site, trying to...
View ArticleLive Chat replay: Journalist Rodney Curtis tells how he got laid (off), lived...
Rodney Curtis is not right. Like thousands of other journalists, he got laid off. Unlike all the others, though, he decided this would make a funny book, “Getting Laid (Off).” Who does that? Seriously,...
View ArticleLive chat today: What opportunities do storytelling apps hold for journalists?
With a solid career in news design Joe Zeff, has become a top designer of apps. Formerly the design director at TIME, Zeff designs apps that, among other things, focus on telling stories. His latest...
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