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Device-aware content, integrated video, and the Internet of things: Some of...
Editor’s Note: What were the most interesting and provocative ideas in journalism in 2012? We’re partnering with Spark Camp to produce a special end-of-year series to ask a group of smart people —...
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Breeding unicorns and building off others: Lessons from a meeting of...
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, the University of Florida hosted Journalism Interactive 2013, a two-day conference that brought together journalism educators and practitioners. The conference...
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OpenNews Learning wants to provide lessons to developers in and out of newsrooms
If you ever wanted an “Ask This Old House”-style guide set in the universe of newsroom developers and designers, today you’re in luck: OpenNews Learning is a new kind of online education project that...
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The cicadas are coming: WNYC’s tracker is the latest sign of the rise of...
Cicadas are harmless, albeit somewhat disgusting. Every 17 years, Brood II cicadas come out of the ground in swarms from as far south as Virginia to as far north as Connecticut. They don’t do much...
View ArticleUsing the Raspberry Pi to get around newsroom IT
Matt Waite — ex-Tampa Bay Times and Politifact, currently professing at the University of Nebraska — promotes the Raspberry Pi as a Trojan horse for newsroom IT. (Trojan horse in the...
View ArticleA warning from Matt Waite about data journalism and race
“If you’re expecting talk-radio and television shout fests to talk about how awesome your statistical validity is, you’re an idiot.” Matt Waite has an excellent post on Source today that tells the...
View ArticleDrone journalism programs try to get back in the air
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Middle West journalism school in possession of open skies must be in want of a drone journalism program. Megan O’Neil at the Chronicle of Higher...
View ArticleGive your web projects a living will
That’s not the precise language Matt Waite uses in his piece for Source, but it gets at the point: Know when it’s time to pull the plug on a web project, and plan ahead for that moment. Quoting...
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What new FAA plans will mean to the future of drone journalism
Editor’s note: If you’ve been at a journalism conference over the past year — or stood near the right Midwestern riverbed at the right time— you’ve probably heard about drone journalism. That’s the...
View ArticleMatt Waite: How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math
Somewhere in middle school, I had convinced myself that I was bad at math. It was okay: My mom was bad at math too. So were lots of people I looked up to. “Bad at math” was a thing — probably even...
View ArticleOn breaking professors out of the academy’s constraints
Nick Kristof’s Sunday column was headlined “Professors, We Need You!” and argued that academics have become too inward-looking: Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world...
View ArticleDon’t let that CNN deal get you too excited about drone journalism yet
Yesterday, CNN announced that it had struck a deal with the feds that represents some progress for those interested in using drones for journalism: CNN has entered into a Cooperative Research and...
View ArticleNew rules governing drone journalism are on the way — and there’s reason to...
Today we got our first real look into what the FAA intends to do about regulating drones in U.S. airspace — and frankly, it’s surprisingly flexible and permissive given what the agency has required of...
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The journalist’s guide to drones over (or crashing into) stadiums
In the past week, two drones have crashed into two separate stadiums in the U.S. — the first at the U.S. Open in New York, the second at a University of Kentucky football game. They’re unlikely to be...
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Why journalists interested in drones should be watching an FAA...
Chances are good you haven’t been following the day-to-day workings of the House Transportation Committee. But something happened there recently that should have journalists and journalism educators...
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In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any U.S. newsroom
In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States. That’s not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before....
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