Being a small web team or a web team of one has unique challenges and benefits. Particularly with budget pressures looming, we need strategies to help us to do more with less. Drawing on over 15 years of experience as a single-person web team, Eric will present techniques to help you maximize your impact as a small team.
Bridgewater State University's journalism department received a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to start a nonprofit community news website called Brockton Matters focusing on underserved neighborhoods in Brockton, Massachusetts. Joseph Pierce, chairman of the journalism department, announced the grant at a press conference and said the website would be run by students alongside reporters from the Brockton Enterprise to cover issues important to the Brockton community.
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This third presentation of the three-part series addresses 1) questionnaire coding, data tracking, and data entry; 2) basics of analyses; and 3) reporting methods, including employing tables and graphs.
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Protesters in Buenos Aires are planning another march this evening to call for the mayor's resignation over a nightclub fire that killed over 180 people last week. Reporter Kenneth Galano is at City Hall covering the protests and has interviewed spokesman Peter Pan, who expressed disgust at the government's actions. The fire was one of Argentina's worst disasters.
Being a small web team or a web team of one has unique challenges and benefits. Particularly with budget pressures looming, we need strategies to help us to do more with less. Drawing on over 15 years of experience as a single-person web team, Eric will present techniques to help you maximize your impact as a small team.
Bridgewater State University's journalism department received a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to start a nonprofit community news website called Brockton Matters focusing on underserved neighborhoods in Brockton, Massachusetts. Joseph Pierce, chairman of the journalism department, announced the grant at a press conference and said the website would be run by students alongside reporters from the Brockton Enterprise to cover issues important to the Brockton community.
Tackling the job of conducting a survey for your library can be daunting. A systematic and quality-driven approach will yield results which can provide valuable information to decision-makers and stakeholders. This three-part series of workshops on conducting surveys will demystify the survey process, from beginning to end of your project.
This third presentation of the three-part series addresses 1) questionnaire coding, data tracking, and data entry; 2) basics of analyses; and 3) reporting methods, including employing tables and graphs.
This document provides guidance on live reporting and breaking news coverage using social media. It discusses why journalists go live, such as for immediacy, tracking long-term stories, and community engagement. It then offers tips for liveblogging situations like breaking news events, meetings, and sporting events. Suggestions are made for live reporting formats like liveblogs, CoveritLive, live video streaming, and live chats. The document emphasizes attributing sources, verifying facts, and developing a social media hashtag for organizing coverage. It also stresses managing live content for reuse in articles and promoting coverage before, during and after live events.
Protesters in Buenos Aires are planning another march this evening to call for the mayor's resignation over a nightclub fire that killed over 180 people last week. Reporter Kenneth Galano is at City Hall covering the protests and has interviewed spokesman Peter Pan, who expressed disgust at the government's actions. The fire was one of Argentina's worst disasters.
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Marc Springer - Live reporting on a (hyper-) local level
1. Live-‐Reporting
on
a
(hyper-‐)local
level
Marc
Springer,
Russmedia
Digital
Editor
in
Chief,
vienna.at
+
VOL.AT
@SpringerMa
2. Who
we
are?
• We
belong
to
Russmedia
,
an
international
media
company,
based
in
Austria!
• The
Name
is
from
the
founder
Eugen
Russ
(1877-‐1962)
• Headquarter:
Schwarzach
3. Our
Digital
Flagship
• VOL.AT:
70
%
reach
• Main
Market:
Vorarlberg
– 380.000
Inhabitants
Out
of
this
we
generate:
• 60+
Mio.
PI/month
• More
than
1
Million
UC/month
• More
than
8
Million
Visits/month
• +40
%
Mobile
Traffic
(increasing)
4. We
work
on
...
Why?
We
try
to
think
and
work
–
in
a
lot
of
ways
–
like
blogger!
It‘s
open
source
-‐ Continously
development
to
cover
our
needs
in
the
newsroom
10. Live-‐Coverage
MoJo
• Breaking
News
• Press
Conferences
• Special
Events
like
Elections
• Live-‐Blogging
• Unique
Content
Newsroom-‐Staff
• Live-‐Blogging
• News-‐Push
Notifications
• Social
Media
• Background
• Curating
Articles/Agency
Content
11. Live-‐Reporting
in
the
past
on
a
(hyper-‐)local
level
Liveblogging
worked
Livestreaming:
too
expensive
and
complicated
12. Live-‐Reporting
1.0
(for
us)
-‐
Mini
Cooper
equiped:
Mobile
Data
Transfer
Technology
System
-‐
Laptop
needed
-‐
Special
Streaming
Software
needed
13. Live-‐Reporting
1.0
Too
much
steps
for
the
MoJo
and
Newsroom-‐Staff
-‐ Calling
the
newsroom
-‐ Taking
pictures,
recording
and
cutting
1st
video
-‐ Installing
Semi-‐Pro-‐Cam
and
booting
Laptop
for
livestreaming
-‐ Livestreams
wasn‘t
available
on
demand
14. Live-‐Reporting
2.0
(for
us)
• First
video:
Vine
–
directly
pushed
on
our
starting
page
• Live-‐Blogging
out
of
the
field