Jan 30, 2016
Google Cardboard is cheap and, relatively, easy virtual reality. With all the talk about the intersection of VR and journalism, at the moment there are only nine Google cardboard journalism pieces. The rest are games, sponsored content, travel, tours or art....
Jan 19, 2016
With a new semester that includes Longform Journalism, I’d thought we’d kick off with a look at the bizarre story that involves Mexico’s biggest drug lord, a famous American actor and, arguably, the US’s biggest pop-culture magazine....
Oct 2, 2015
This new article in CJR by Gerald Eskenazi on the fine art of reading the moment and asking the right question in an interview starts with Donald Trump and ends with Muhammad Ali. Never thought I’d see those two names in print together. But Eskenazi has the...
Sep 11, 2015
A super interesting and useful post from Journalism Tools on Medium that not only lists 22 online storytelling tools but also shows relevant news examples of each tool from various media organisations. Excellent examples of programming and journalism coming together...
Apr 29, 2015
By Robin Ewing This drone footage of Kathmandu does an incredible job of showing the scale of damage done by Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal. The only other way to get these kinds of images would be to hire a helicopter. Drone journalism is up and...
Mar 3, 2015
by Robin Ewing The Columbia Journalism Review this week published a thoughtful article on plagiarism and the trickiness of defining it in a digital world where “all ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.”...