Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Whenever I want to reconnect with someone, I first look to online social networks, such as Facebook and Linked in. I imagine a host of people use social networks for the very same purpose.
So why shouldn’t journalists?
I posed this [...]
Scanning my feedback email at MLive, I found an interesting pitch from MSNBC. One of their reporters pitched a special they put together on the quality of U.S. bridges. Sounds like a pretty cool data set.
I checked it out, and the pitch wasn’t spam. Besides the MSNBC bridge project, the reporter also said we could [...]
Michigan State University journalism professor Dave Poulson asked me to talk to his computer-assisted reporting class next week about all the fun web tools journalists should use to help do their jobs. Exciting! I have a few ideas so I thought I would put them down and then ask you what tools you think I [...]
Blog Herald has an interesting post about requiring journalists and news orgs to comment on stories and respond to comments.
The author mentions a Steve Rubel blog post which highlighted CNET’s policy of requiring its staff members to participate in commenting. Have you heard of any other places with a similar stance?
While I encourage news people, [...]
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