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A New Crowdfunding Platform Lets You Host and Customize Your Project 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
These days, it’s almost a shock whenever startups, no matter their goal, aren’t somehow associated with a crowdfunding website. Between Indiegogo, Crowdfunder, Kickstarter and others, various journal...
4 Musts for Doing Quality Online Local News 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Given the corporate turmoil and massive cuts playing out before us at AOL’s Patch, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about what went wrong with the local news provider. They had the bodies, tools and pla...
Is It Ever OK to Use the Exclamation Point? 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
With the passing of Elmore Leonard this week, his “Ten Rules of Writing” circled the internet. Maybe you came across it, too, on Buzzfeed or some other site using the meme to memorialize him. As jou...
Baby Steps: A Starter Guide to Encrypting Your Email 22 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
If you aren’t thinking about privacy or ‘magical immunity juice’ these days, you should be. And you should be encrypting your emails. Not the letters home or weekend plans (although that might be usef...
How to Take the Perfect Photo or Video 21 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
Much like “proficiency in Microsoft Word,” writing alone isn’t going to cut it anymore in the Internet era; successful journalists need real technical chops — starting with quality picture-taking. An...
Why Journalists Should Be Hosting Sponsored Events 20 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
With a fresh school year ramping up, I’ve noticed several news publications beginning to big-time promote the special events they’re heading up this fall. It seems like more of these kinds of gatheri...
Philly Newsrooms Innovating with Project Liberty Digital Incubators 16 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
The Knight Foundation does it again. This time in Philadephia, where they’ve granted $345,000 to the Project Liberty Digital Incubator, which puts startups in the Interstate General Media newsrooms — ...
FOIA Machine Helps Journalists File Information Requests 16 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
We all know what a headache it is to file Freedom of Information Act requests to governing bodies. Wired calls this tedious practice that reporters endure “government hell.” The whole process is a ti...
Rich Gorman Offers 7 Ways to Boost Online Sales Right Now 16 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
These days, everyone’s trying to sell something on the Internet—but according to Rich Gorman, some online sales pros are more effective than others. While e-commerce continues to grow, with online ret...
Journos, Meet TubeStart: Subscription Based Crowdfunding 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
There are lots of reasons that crowdfunding makes sense to journalists. And there are lots of ways to go about it. Alas, there are also drawbacks to what’s become the standard on platforms like Indieg...
