Tools of the trade Category
Does your newsroom have a Breaking News plan?
By: Steph on: Mar 2,2010 In: Social Media, Tools of the trade, Working on the NewsroomAt The Independent, we’re trying to come up with a breaking news “mobilization” plan to put into place that takes into account our tools (cameras, phones, other recording equipment), our software capabilities and reporter abilities.
What? Why haven’t we done this already?
Well, it’s not like we don’t know how to cover breaking news. We do that [...]
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- Tags: breaking news plan, newsroom
A plea for help with rss feed mashups
By: Steph on: Feb 16,2010 In: Tools of the tradeI am hoping for a little help from the cloud here.
We use Yahoo Pipes currently to mashup multiple blog feeds. But getting the mashup to display just a blog title, post title and timestamp is proving to problematic for me. I am either making this harder than it needs to be or I am just [...]
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- Tags: help, mashup, pipes, rss
Real-time success! A Live Tweeting Update
By: Steph on: Feb 3,2010 In: Social Media, Tools of the trade, Working on the NewsroomToday was one of those days that makes you remember why you love this business so much. And if ever a case was made for every reporter in every newsroom having a smartphone, today was it.
When I walked into the newsroom this morning, the publisher was talking to the city editor and our temporary mobile [...]
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- Tags: Facebook, Live tweeting, real-time, shooting, twitter
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I work as the Web Editor for the Grand Island Independent, in Nebraska, which is owned by the Omaha World Herald.
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