News Leadership 3.0

August 29, 2010

Diversity challenged? Grow your network

The new public editor for The New York Times published his first column Sunday. Arthur S. Brisbane looks well qualified for the job, and I wish him well. Still, my jaw dropped in astonishment when his appointment was announced. Like his three predecessors, Brisbane is a white guy. How can it be, I wonder, that an organization with the reach of the Times, cannot find a woman or a person of color qualified to be its public editor?

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OJR: The Online Journalism Review

September 01, 2010

What can journalism schools learn from watching the University of Colorado?

By Robert Niles: Last week, news reports hit that the University of Colorado at Boulder would close its journalism school. By the end of the afternoon, the story had morphed a bit - CU wouldn't be getting out of journalism education, but instead convening a commission to look at restructuring the school, putting its future as a separate entity in ...

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News for Digital Journalists

September 01, 2010

OpenBlock launches demo site for Boston

On Aug. 26, the OpenBlock project launched its first demo site, serving the Boston area in partnership with the Boston Globe.

This project is the open-source successor to EveryBlock, a Knight News Challenge-funded project that was acquired by MSNBC one year ago. OpenBlock is “an open-source software initiative to bring hyperlocal news and data capabilities to news organizations of all sizes.”

Here’s how this project could benefit all news organizations…

August 31, 2010

Is transparency the new objectivity? Spot.us community speaks out

Objectivity, once viewed as the key attribute of mainstream journalism, is increasingly seen as unlikely or at best secondary in importance to journalistic transparency, according to a survey of the online community for open-source crowdfunded reporting project Spot.Us...

Upcoming workshops at KDMC@USC Annenberg

Leadership and Professional Growth for Digital Journalists

June 30 - December 31, 2010

Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute

KDMC@USC will provide tailored, expenses-paid professional development services to 20 top newsroom leaders

October 3 - October 7, 2010

Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp

An invitation-only conference for Challenge winners (www.infoneeds.org)

Upcoming workshops at KDMC@UC Berkeley

Multimedia Story Telling and Technology Training

December 12 - December 17, 2010

Interactive Census Workshop

Learn to create cutting-edge interactive census graphics

January 9 - January 14, 2011

Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop

Intensive training that covers all aspects of multimedia news production.

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Knight Community Info Challenge Boot Camp

The Knight Digital Media Center sponsored a five-day boot camp for 22 fellows from organizations that won the 2010 Knight Community Information Challenge and received Knight Foundation funding to start or expand community news or information projects. The boot camp was intended to jump start their efforts, with experts speaking on topics that included social media, Web metrics, project planning, and Web site development and evaluation. Many of the presentations and discussions are available in video.

Check out the agenda, organizations, and videos.

Twitter Roll Call

September 02, 3:20pm

@NeimanLab

NiemanLab: How social data built a better health care app: @digiphile guest-posts at @mashable http://nie.mn/bxM0p1

September 02, 2:14pm

@jayrosen_nyu

Eric Scherer a capturé les dix points de conseils que j'ai donnés aux étudiants français de journalisme d'aujourd'hui. http://jr.ly/4smq

September 02, 12:32pm

@knightfdn

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Joins World Wide Web Foundation?s Board of Directors http://bit.ly/cWywpu
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