Feb 12, 2015
By Robin Ewing Nonny de la Peña screened her immersive journalism project, called Project Syria, at Sundance Film Festival last month. Users wear a virtual-reality headset to experience a street bomb in 3D, the visuals meticulously recreated from a video of a real...
Jan 30, 2015
By Robin Ewing In the last three months, Apple made US$18 billion and news agency Associated Press produced 3,000 stories written by a computer program. One of these was the report about Apple’s billions, published minutes after the quarterly earnings were...
Jan 28, 2015
Medium, a blog-publishing platform, has been called (by others and by Medium itself) the “best writing tool on the web.” Anyone can publish and it looks good; “elegant” is the word most often used. If you want to read something that clearly...
Jan 21, 2015
Surprise hit Serial, with 1.2 million listeners per episode, has everyone talking about how podcasts are the new hot thing, despite having been around for 10 years (and radio dramas since the 1920s). In fact, podcasts apparently confuse so many people that Ira Glass...
Nov 13, 2014
The spacecraft Rosetta and its lander Philae have twitter accounts! This is a good article from Mashable about how scientists are engaging people in the mission to the comet by giving personalities to inanimate objects. Reminds me of Xinhua’s Weibo account for...
Nov 12, 2014
From The Conversation: Reader comments on article have transformed journalism into a conversation but is that conversation worth publishing? One journalists says “I’d say that enabling reader comments is the worst thing to have happened to newspapers since …...
