Notes and observations from a longtime teacher of online journalism.
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Resources and information related to online journalism, interactivity, multimedia storytelling and production.
An online resource for teaching web journalism: * reporting\n* writing\n* editing\n* photojournalism\n* graphics\n* design\n* web journalism\n* opinion writing\n* broadcasting
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The Bighow Handbook to Online Journalism is a free online resource for journalists, bloggers, citizen journalists and anyone interested in doing some journalism. The journalism handbook covers all aspects of journalism through guides and is also a clearinghouse for best guides to journalism on the web. Topics include online reporting, writing for the web and social web, citizen journalism, professional blogging, list of citizen journalism websites worldwide, list of free tools for journalism and much more...
"Online journalists must think on multiple levels at once: words, ideas, story structure, design, interactives, audio, video, photos, news judgment," "TV is about showing the news. Print is more about telling and explaining. Online is about showing, telling, demonstrating, and interacting." To make that possible, online journalists present information in layers, using a variety of story forms.
Handbook of Independent Journalism, scheduled for release in mid-2006.
Writing for the Web is not the same as writing for print. People read differently on the Web. They scan read�jumping quickly from one piece of content to the next. People are much more action-orientated on the Web.