John Robinson has a good example of how the flow of breaking news has changed, based on some sort of middling college basketball team they have in North Carolina :

So, we have website, social media, television and good old-fashioned word of mouth. Not print, of course. So, everyone who cares knows before the newspaper comes out tomorrow morning. That’s why we’re not focusing on the announcement but on what it might mean, with a point of view.

John says this is an example of how the news has evolved over the last 5 years. True, but that was happening while TV news was breaking into the newspaper’s dominance of local news. It’s just been ramped up in the age of social media. And newspapers now have an opportunity to get in on the mix of the discussion of breaking news.

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• Google shuttering Google Videos – Faster Forward – The Washington Post

  “If you happen to still have anything still up on Google Videos that you want to keep, you’d better move quickly. The clock is ticking. After April 29, the site will stop hosting videos; after May 13, the content will be gone forever.

  The company has added a “Download” button to videos to let people save the content they want from the site. Users are being encouraged to repost their videos to YouTube, which Google bought in 2006. “

  tags: online videos google

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• Teaching Online Journalism » Timelines in journalism: A closer look

  “Do not create an interactive timeline just because it’s cool. Use interactivity to make the information more clear.”

  tags: journalism online timelines teaching reference

• Teaching Online Journalism » 10 useful resources about data visualization

  “These will be useful to introduce students, journalists, or yourself to the concepts of data visualization. Bonus: There’s an interesting discussion on Quora about the difference between information graphics and data visualization.”

  tags: journalism teaching online datavisualization design

• Plugins for publishers, April 2011 edition | Daniel Bachhuber’s weblog

  “The following are WordPress plugins I find myself using and recommending regularly. In the interest of making this available to everyone, here’s the full list”

  tags: wordpress plugins journalism

• Facebook trying to ‘friend’ journalists – CNN.com

  “Facebook is taking major steps to ensure that its News Feeds contain more actual news.

  The social media giant is hiring someone to build relationships with reporters and news organizations. The new hire also will help organize journalism-focused events, the first of which will take place this month at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California.”

  tags: facebook journalism socialmedia

• Collegian editor at La Salle gets his point across | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/15/2011

  “”Sometimes it is quite frustrating when the students run up against this kind of censorship,” said John Kennedy, an assistant professor of communication and a former staff writer for the Boston Globe. “It’s not unusual for a private college to exercise that kind of control. It has that legal right. But more progressive institutions understand that you want the students to try to replicate what they will face out in the real world.”"

  tags: journalism lasalle censorship collegemedia

• CU-Boulder journalism school to shut down after 5-4 vote by regents – Boulder Daily Camera

  “The University of Colorado’s journalism school will close June 30, making it the first — but perhaps not the last — college to be shut down in the university’s history.

  The CU regents voted 5-4 on Thursday to shut down the School of Journalism and Mass Communication on the Boulder campus, despite some board members arguing that problems in the school could be fixed without closing it. “

  tags: journalism cu education

• America’s Health Rankings – State Healthstats

  3D visualization of state rankings across a variety of data. Also, you can compare different states’ rankings. Produced by a non-profit advocacy group.

  tags: health datavisualization

• News: ‘Intern Nation’ – Inside Higher Ed

  “The debate over unpaid internships is complex. Students want the experience, but not all can afford it, especially when they’re required to pay for the (sometimes mandatory) corresponding academic credit. “

  tags: journalism internships

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• My 5 wishes for journalism research at Newsless.org

  “So help me out. I’ve got five requests – some bigger-picture, others more focused. If you think you can help with any of these, please give me a shout.”

  tags: journalism research academics

• Making the 7D my everday video camera | Photojournalism From A Student’s Eye

  “Shooting with the 7D allows for a much shallower depth of field and better image quality in general and especially in low light. Also, because the 7D is a still camera, I feel as though people are less threatened by it. They don’t immediately assume that I am filming, especially if I am holding it at hip level. In comparison, when I shoot with the HVR-A1U, it is more easily recognized as a video camera, and I will often be asked not to shoot.”

  tags: DSLR Canon photojournalism video

• Who Needs Flash? New WebGL And HTML5 Browser Game Sets Tron’s Light Cycles In 3D

  “Cycleblob, an addictive browser game created by Israeli developer Shy Shalom, went live today. The game ports light cycles, the futuristic vehicles from the legendary 1982 film Tron, to the browser. Nerd power! Of course, seeing as Tron was recently upgraded with a new sequel, it’s only fitting that light cycles should be given a more contemporary setting in which to compete — especially if that backdrop takes advantage of modern web standards and contexts.”

  tags: flash html5

• Online communities need leadership: Will journalists provide it, or will someone else?

  “Here’s some basic advice that you can copy and paste (and modify as you need) to encourage insightful, engaging and rewarding writing from readers of your site”

  tags: online communities journalismfuture

• The Hackers Who Keep the Washington Post Running – Simon Owens – Technology – The Atlantic

  An interesting, brief article about the Washington Post’s dev. team.

  tags: washingtonpost webdev programming journalism

• Frank Rich, Outlinker

  “Both internal and external links can be useful to readers. It is perfectly appropriate for a newspaper column to link to an another page on the same site where relevant related information exists that will better inform readers of the column. But linking to other sites is vital when an exterior URL is more useful (especially in preference to linking to an internal story that, itself, cites and external source). Rich links internally when appropriate, but his linking habits are particularly laudable in that he has no reservations pointing his readers to other sites.”

  tags: hyperlinks nytimes

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• How live blogging has transformed journalism | Media | The Guardian

  “This year, as the Arab revolutions have unfolded, live blogging has rapidly become the dominant form for breaking news online – deployed by virtually every major news organisation on their home page and the online answer to 24/7 television news. The Financial Times has had to commandeer Gideon Rachman’s blog to keep up, while the styles vary from the quickfire updates of the BBC (complete with BBC News broadcast feed), to the tight and factual Daily Telegraph technique, to a slightly more expansive approach from the Guardian.”

  tags: blogging journalism

• Carnival Roundup No. 3: Driving innovation #JCarn « Carnival of Journalism

  “Yet another fantastic #jcarn. With every one of these, we find new participants, and others become hardened veterans. Once again, we’ve made the Harvard Nieman Lab’s “This Week In Review” (pretty f’n badass), but we will do our own wrap-up below.”

  tags: innovation journalism carnivalofjournalism

• MLB: Free iPad And iPhone Streaming For A Month

  “The most exciting is a free month of live, out-of-market streaming game telecasts on the iPad and iPhone, sponsored by Volvo. This is basically a free trial of the MLB.TV service that provides these live game streams year-round.”

  tags: ipad free mlb iphone

• Google: NFC Is Replacing QR Codes.

  The headline is a bit of an overstatement. QR codes are going to be around. But Near Field Communication is already in use in Europe and should see more adoption in the U.S.

  tags: google nfc mobile qrcode

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