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Google tools for journalists

Google tools for journalists

Wed, October 16, 2013 | 10:59 a.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

Google offers many free tools that are useful for journalists and others who create news and information content. Now, these are packaged in one place: Google Media Tools.

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Learn Google Analytics with new, free online course

Learn Google Analytics with new, free online course

Wed, October 9, 2013 | 11:42 a.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

Google Analytics is a popular and powerful free tool to track and understand website performance. But it's not always completely intuitive, and it includes some features you might not notice at first. Last week Google expanded its Analytics training and certification offerings with a new free three-week online course in digital analytics fundamentals.

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Who's online, who isn't, and why: Pew digital divide research

Who's online, who isn't, and why: Pew digital divide research

Tue, October 1, 2013 | 2:43 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

If you're trying to engage or inform your community online, it helps to understand who is -- and is not -- likely to be online at all. Four recent Pew Internet reports can help you map out this complex demographic issue.

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Which interactive maps can best tell your stories?

Which interactive maps can best tell your stories?

Tue, September 24, 2013 | 9:55 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

Interactive maps can be attention-grabbing ways to highlight events and issues affecting your community; or to show how your community compares to your region or state. The Nonprofit Technology Network recently offered several examples of how to tell stories with interactive maps. While intended for nonprofit organizations, these ideas can also apply to many community-focused news or information efforts.

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What people do on their cell phones: Pew report

What people do on their cell phones: Pew report

Tue, September 24, 2013 | 9:11 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

Most of what people do on their cell phones has little to do with phone calls. Here are what the most popular non-voice cell phone activities are, according to new Pew research.

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Most mobile news consumers prefer browser over apps, RJI finds

Most mobile news consumers prefer browser over apps, RJI finds

Wed, September 18, 2013 | 11:37 a.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

While many news organizations still focus much of their mobile strategy and budget on building apps, new research from the Reynolds Journalism Institute finds that more people access mobile news via the web browser on their smartphone or tablet, rather than an app. What's more, they seem to like the browser experience better.

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So you want to build a web app?

So you want to build a web app?

Tue, September 3, 2013 | 3:36 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

If you'd like to offer advanced functionality to inform, engage, or serve your community, you probably want to build an application ("app"). Technology consultant Jeff Reifman has published an excellent free online tutorial about how to build an app delivered via the web.

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Pew: Internet now leading news source for Americans under 50

Pew: Internet now leading news source for Americans under 50

Thu, August 8, 2013 | 12:13 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

It's not exactly a surprise, but now we have data. According to the Pew Research Center's biennial media attitudes survey, the internet is now the leading source of national and international news for Americans under age 50.

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Why social media is such a big deal for community engagement

Why social media is such a big deal for community engagement

Tue, August 6, 2013 | 12:43 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

If social media isn't yet a central, consistent part of your community engagement strategy, it's long past time to get serious about that. This week, Pew Internet reports that nearly three out of four U.S. adults uses online social networking -- popularity that spans nearly every demographic.

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Roll your own Twitter bot with OpenFuego

Roll your own Twitter bot with OpenFuego

Mon, August 5, 2013 | 3:56 p.m. PDT
by: Amy Gahran

Two years ago Nieman Journalism Lab debuted Fuego -- a mobile friendly tool for tracking the future of journalism in real time, based on curated Tweets from leading players in that field. This week Nieman Lab unveiled OpenFuego -- open-source code to roll your own Twitter Bot focused on the topic of your choosing.

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Tools, Tips & Trends

Newspapers under siege as 65 percent of digital ads go to tech companies

By Nancy Yoshihara
6/14/2016 | 10:00 pm GMT

Newspaper revenues and circulation, print and digital combined, continued to decline in 2015 while both cable and network TV enjoyed...

The Diversity Style Guide: Important resource updated and expanded

By Nancy Yoshihara
6/5/2016 | 10:00 pm GMT

Anyone who dismisses or ignores this guide should not be working in journalism. The updated Diversity Style Guide is one...