Journal Register Company staff were honored at the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists 2012 awards ceremony Thursday night for their digital first coverage of Hurricane Irene, the trial of triple murderer Joshua Komisarjevsky and a spike in New Haven’s murder rate. In all, JRC staff took home 65 awards, including 27 first place honors, up from 56 awards, with 20 in first place, last year. The New Haven Register’s first place award for Online Spot News Reporting happened from a makeshift newsroom in reporter Alexandra Sanders’ apartment in the wake of Hurricane Irene. The New Haven Register swept SPJ’s Online Spot News Reporting category, winning first place for team coverage of Hurricane Irene. Because the Register building was without power in the hurricane’s aftermath, the ... Continue reading →
Katharine Zaleski leaves Washington Post by Andrew Beaujon Published May 23, 2012 1:50 pm Katharine Zaleski, The Washington Post’s executive director of digital news. She joined the newspaper in 2009, leaving The Huffington Post. Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli announced her departure to staff today. ADVERTISEMENT Continue reading →
Successfully applying data science to the practice of journalism requires more than providing context and finding clarity in vasts amount of unstructured data: it will require media organizations to think differently about how they work and who they venerate. It will mean evolving towards a multidisciplinary approach to delivering stories, where reporters, videographers, news application developers, interactive designers, editors and community moderators collaborate on storytelling, instead of being segregated by departments or buildings. The role models for this emerging practice of data journalism won't be found on broadcast television or on the lists of the top journalists over the past century. They're drawn from the increasing pool of people who are building new breeds of newsrooms and extending the practice of computational journalism. They see ... Continue reading →
Successfully applying data science to the practice of journalism requires more than providing context and finding clarity in vasts amount of unstructured data: it will require media organizations to think differently about how they work and who they venerate. It will mean evolving towards a multidisciplinary approach to delivering stories, where reporters, videographers, news application developers, interactive designers, editors and community moderators collaborate on storytelling, instead of being segregated by departments or buildings. The role models for this emerging practice of data journalism won't be found on broadcast television or on the lists of the top journalists over the past century. They're drawn from the increasing pool of people who are building new breeds of newsrooms and extending the practice of computational journalism. They see ... Continue reading →
