In Lab 8, we’re gathering audio using digital audio recorders, editing audio using Audacity, and uploading our audio onto our WordPress blogs, all in real time. Below is a list of instructions to guide you through the process » Read the rest of the entry..

We’re providing handouts with photography and Photoshop instructions in Lab 7. Below is a full run-down of those instructions. » Read the rest of the entry..

Had some requests this week that we post our lab notes/instructions for last term’s lab on widgets, maps, interactivity, and tagging. Glad to do it.

The full instruction is after the jump: » Read the rest of the entry..

Just a quick suggestion for all students taking the online journalism labs:

If possible, best to bring a memory stick and headphones to each lab. I’m seeing students frequently run out of space on their desktops to save video/audio files, and without headphones, it makes listening to your video and audio footage a tad difficult (i.e. impossible).

Following is a list of the Apple iPhone apps I use for mobile reporting. Obviously only a partial list of what is possible so if there are other apps you find useful leave a comment on this post. » Read the rest of the entry..

The concept of ‘content management’, at least in one respect, is easily unraveled:No prizes for guessing it must be the process or activity by which you ‘manage’ your ‘content’.

Tongue in cheek as that may seem, as somebody who works with a content management system or CMS almost every day, I have sincerely come to think of it this way. This article will help you to understand what it means journalistically as well as semantically, whilst explaining why the simple, and playfully tautological definition of it above is the most useful one.

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We’re discussing the fine art of tagging and using widgets this week. Below are a few helpful resources:

One definition of tags and how and why we use them.

What exactly are widgets? One definition is here. Widgets are comprised of HTML. Remember HTML?

One slideshow on how to use your internal WordPress widgets.

Cover It Live is one example of an external widget that you can download.

And, further proof of why to make your content as easy to find as possible.

This is a list of the links referred to in Lecture #1 on Introducing Online Journalism by Chris Brauer:

Pre-Lecture

Video – History of Internet

Video – Tornado

Music

Arcade Fire, Neighbourhood #1

Smiths, Oscillate Wildly

Radiohead, Karma Police

Cutlines Module

Details of course, curriculum and assessment on Cutlines

Case Studies

- Tour de France (Lance Armstrong Twitter feed)

- Virginia Tech shootings

- The Murder of Meredith and the Media

- Subversion – Mark Bowden

- Noam Chomsky

- Video – Pacino in the Insider

- Chelsea article in the Times (comments no longer available)

- Google News and United Airlines

- Leaking Moon Water (BBC description)

- Sir Winston Churchill: “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”

- “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”

- Running the Numbers (artist Chris Jordan)

- Video – Flight 1549 reenactment

Broadcast and print students from the MA in International Journalism at City University, London are today putting their online journalism skills to work as protests and other events related to the G20 Summit get underway around the capital.

The students, led by broadcast student Alex Wood, will be using Qik, Twitpic, blogging, as well as of course Twitter to cover events as they actually happen. They have selected a special Twitter hashtag, #g20ct, to link their ‘tweets’ together.

These various media are being aggregated on a web page also entirely put together by these students: http://tinyurl.com/g20live.

Extended video footage and photography from the day is also being collected and could be available as early as tomorrow.

Make sure to attend the Online Journalism Roundtable on Monday, 23 March, 2009 in the Great Hall. Join a star-studded media panel as they explore the issues and topics we covered in the module this year.

Unlike usual , all City University Department of Journalism students (including undergraduates) and staff are invited to attend.