How to Report for New Media

Written by Ryan Thornburg February 10, 2009 8:04 am EST

Links Referenced in This Lecture:

• Slide 3
  • Little Green Footballs
  • Powerline Blog
• Slide 5
  • Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees (washingtonpost.com)
  • The Fact Checker: Romney and Abortion (washingtonpost.com)
• Slide 7
  • Bluffton Today
  • Live Online With Bob Kaiser (washingtonpost.com)
  • Wiki Scanner (wired.com)
  • GasBuddy.com
  • #ch-snow (Twitter.com)
  • Ushahidi.com
  • Veep-O-Matic (washingtonpost.com)
  • Consumer Consequences (American Public Media)
• Slide 10
  • MarketWatch.com
  • War in Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
  • Times Topics (NYTimes.com)
• Slide 14
  • Breaking News Blog (L.A. Times)
  • iReport of Va. Tech Shooting (CNN)

Additional Resources

How to Report a News Story Online (Online Journalism Review)

A Guide to ‘Crowdsourcing’ (Knight Citizen News Network)

Multimedia Storytelling (Knight Digital Media Center)

MP3 Audio of the Lecture

Lecture: Reporting for online media

Related posts:

1. Public Affairs Reporting for New Media: Day 1
2. Lecture: The Online News Audience

1 Comment

1. Javier Arias   |  Wednesday, 18 February 2009 at 7:07 am

   Hi Ryan! My name is Javier Arias from Seville (Spain) this post is excellent! I’ll advise to my students. It’s very concise, direct and useful to understand new times in a online media, thank you for share you work and talent