Digital Media Musings

Candace Lee Egan's thoughts and ideas on digital media.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Web-Centric Seminar Links

Today we're hosting a day of seminars about journalism in the Internet Age. This mornings session is "The Web-Centric Newsroom and the Multimedia Reporter: Get Ready Now!" with Jane Ellen Stevens of the Knight New Media Center at UC Berkeley.

Jane uses a number of Website examples in her presentation. Below are links to the sites she mentions:

The same story (Ivory-billed woodpecker), three ways:
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
http://www.nwanews.com/story.php?paper=adg§ion=News&storyid=114980

Nature Conservancy
http://www.nature.org/ivorybill/

Why Files
http://whyfiles.org/224presumed_extinct/

The same event story (Kentucky Derby), two ways:
Churchill Downs
http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/

Louisville Courier-Journal
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPORTS0801


Good examples of multimedia storytelling
Touching Hearts – series story package (turn off pop-up blocker)
http://www.heraldsun.com/heart/

The Fair -- a columnist’s take on the fair
http://transom.org/shows/2004/200404_fair.html

Freeing Sex Slaves – oped by NYTimes Nicholas Kristof and Naka Nathaniel
http://nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/01/29/opinion/20050129_CAMBODIA_FEATURE.html


Web Shells

Story shells:
Touching Hearts – series story package (turn off pop-up blocker)
http://www.heraldsun.com/heart/

Bend to Baja
http://www.patagonia.com/bendtobaja/index2.html

Curating the City
http://www.curatingthecity.org/map.jsp

Issue shells:
BBC Iraq shell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/default.stm

NYTimes Iraq shell
http://nytimes.com/pages/world/worldspecial/index.html

BBC London bombing shell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2005/london_explosions/default.stm

Beat shells:
Seattle Post Intelligencer’s transportation beat shell
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/

KUSports.com – local college sports site
http://www.kusports.com


News organizations’ family of Web sites World Publishing --
LJWorld.com – main site
http://www.ljworld.com/

Lawrence.com – youth/entertainment site
http://www.lawrence.com/

KUSports.com – local college sports site
http://www.kusports.com

Bakersfield Californian --
http://www.bakersfield.com/

Northwest Voice.com
http://www.northwestvoice.com/home/

Bakotopia
http://www.bakotopia.com/home/index.php