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Using Windows Movie Maker to edit audio clips — yes, audio clips
When you run into a problem, sometimes the solution you’re looking for is right under your nose and you don’t know it. And so I came to learn how to use Windows Movie Maker to edit audio for my...
View ArticleTools that help you get more from Twitter
All of us who relish the social aspect of the Web can be thankful to the great gods of social media that a website such as Twitter came along. The short-messaging-service knockoff has retooled the way...
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CuePrompter: No more memorizing scripts for your video blog
Sometimes television reporters make it look so easy when they’re out in the field doing a “live shot.” I know after 27 years in television—it took practice, practice, practice to make a live shot...
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Streamlining your social media posting: How to update more than one site at a...
Funnel Social media can help you in your reporting, help you get out the word about your stories and help you build own brand as a journalist. But there are so many social media and social networking...
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Build your own website for free
More journalists these days are setting up their own websites where they can profile their work. It’s one of the best ways to grow your brand and display your resume online. I’ve taken web design...
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Getting started with quick, easy data visualizations
Charts, fever lines, maps and diagrams: They aren’t just for the Graphics Department anymore. There once was a time when reporters dealt with words and someone else dealt with the numbers and the...
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Digital Media Tools: One click away
As we near the SPJ convention in New Orleans; it’s a good time to remind you of all the digital media tools we have written about in the past year. Just in case you’ve missed some of our past...
View ArticleStart here when conducting a background check
This may be difficult for budding journalists to believe, but there was a time when shoe leather was a reporter’s best research tool. Every pertinent document sat in a file viewable only in person,...
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The promise and problem with Pinterest
Lately, social media mavens have pinned their hopes on Pinterest as the next big thing in remote engagement because of the site’s stated goal to “connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they...
View ArticleHeads up! SPJ’s launched a Tumblr microblog!
It’s good to see that SPJ is embracing the new tools of digital media. Tumblr is an easy-to-use “microblog” that allows you to post quick links to content on the Web, or video, or photos, and share...
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Making videos on the go just got much easier
Software developer Adobe has simplified video production and editing for any journalist on the go who’s armed with an Apple iPad. The company officially unveiled today its new Adobe Voice app, a kind...
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Snapchat snafu serves as an important reminder
Today, many Snapchat users are no doubt gnawing their nails over the clothing-sparse selfies and booze-infused party pics they shared on assumptions of privacy. They’re wondering whether insulting...
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Cuba opens its door to U.S. journalists, but be careful
A landmark diplomatic agreement between the United States and Cuba also opens a door to American journalists who encountered obstacles in glimpsing inside the closeted island nation over the past 50...
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Embrace the Age of Social Media
Social media–or what I like to call a journalist’s savior. When I decided junior year of high school to become an environmental journalist, I assumed I’d just be writing stories for tree huggers; I...
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Should Students Pursue Journalism?
A headline from HuffPost Media this week stopped me in my Twitter-prowling tracks: “Employment Rates Are Improving For Everyone But Journalism Majors.” My first reaction was to cringe. I’ve always...
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Ask Questions, Get Answers
You know the phrase, ‘Ask and you shall receive’? No other advice rings truer for young journalists who are itching to get out in the business. It’s the classic professors’ ploy: “Questions? Anybody...
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Tablet or Traditional? News Consumption
One afternoon in my second semester at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, I grabbed a copy of the morning’s The New York Times, more on an impulse than as a conscious, consumer choice. When you...
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The New Mobile: News For the Next Gen
The art of storytelling and the consumption of news are both timeless human habits, so I wouldn’t worry too much about the journalist’s craft disappearing into the ether, just yet. What journalists...
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Transparency for All
I wake up anxious every day, just to find out what Obama will be doing in the afternoon. Okay, that’s not entirely true. Perhaps my enthusiasm for The New York Times Now newsletter has got me a little...
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Clickbait vs. Long-form: What Do Readers Want?
I hardly ever click through on ‘clickbait’ – but that’s just me. Maybe it’s because I know the tactic well, having studied the art of a compelling, click-driven tweet in my journalism classes at Ohio...
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