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Tools: What Journalists Can Learn from Science
March 14, 2012Bilbo Poynter — An interesting post on the Reporting on Health website today about a recent talk given by Gideon Lichfield, media editor at The Economist, and Matt Thompson, editorial product manager at NPR on what journalism can learn from science. The talk took place at last week’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin.
Read More…Interesting: “Beautiful Souls” Author on DN! Talking Whistleblowers (includes video)
March 9, 2012Bilbo Poynter — Democracy Now, the excellent current affairs news show on the Pacifica network in New York, had an interesting interview today with Eyal Press, the author of a new book on whistleblowers, “Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times”. “I feel like we have two
Read More…Tools: Reporter’s Lab Offers Tools and Techniques for Public Interest Reporting
March 5, 2012Bilbo Poynter — From the mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah Cohen comes a new tool for the “computational” journalist in you. Reporters’ Lab (Cohen developed this as a project of Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy) is meant to be a resource for reporters looking to, “make sense of the messy,
Read More…Tools: 50 Cool Twitter Chats for Journos
March 5, 2012Alex Roslin – Hook up with fellow journalists who share similar interests via journalism-related Twitter chats. These are Twitter-based discussions that happen regularly (often at a certain time once a week). Here is an interesting list of 50 good ones.
Awards: PWAC Writing Prizes Call for Entries
February 28, 2012Alex Roslin – Canadian writers and editors take note: Entries are now open for the third annual writing awards of the Professional Writers Association of Canada. You don’t have to be a PWAC member to submit your masterpiece. See here for more details.