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Making paper while filling papers #Jcarn

Making paper while filling papers #Jcarn

Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.

The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their…

All I want for Journo-festivus is everything #Jcarn

All I want for Journo-festivus is everything #Jcarn

Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.

The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt.

This month 

Introducing VidScribe, an open source #MozNewsLab project

Introducing VidScribe, an open source #MozNewsLab project

Online news video does a poor job of making itself available to viewers and thinking about how they access it. In order to build audiences and grow their business, newsrooms need a better way of structuring video to serve the

Talking Tech to non-techies

Talking Tech to non-techies

This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea“that will improve the way that

"Hack" seeks "Hacker," my open source project for #MozNewsLabs

“Hack” seeks “Hacker,” my open source project for #MozNewsLabs

This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea“that will improve the way that

Open source doesn't mean forgetting to build the community

Open source doesn’t mean forgetting to build the community

This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea “that will improve the

The power of story

The power of story

This entry is part of a series of #moznewslab posts that I’ll publish over the course of my time as a participant in the Knight-Mozilla learning lab. On the merits of a video idea “that will improve the

Seven peeks at the future of news video

Seven peeks at the future of news video

The future of video is an evolution and it’s going to look radical or familiar depending on how critically you think about it, so don’t be intimidated, like my community college journalism instructor said, “everything’s been done, but it hasn’t…

Meditations on the future of news video

Meditations on the future of news video

Not too long ago I was packing up my life in Houston, Tx, shoving everything I owned into my car for a trip west. In between buying packing tape and paper cuts my mind was bombarded with ideas for improving…

Did you hear the one about the guy #JCarn

Did you hear the one about the guy #JCarn

Once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn.

The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their

Knight News Challenge 2.0 #JCarn

Knight News Challenge 2.0 #JCarn

Welcome to the first of what I hope will be many posts as I participate in #JCarn.

The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs

Why the NTYs pay wall is a good thing, but won’t work

Why the NTYs pay wall is a good thing, but won’t work

If you’re a news junkie, use Twitter or have somehow landed on this website, you’ve no doubt already heard about the New York Times pay wall finally coming online.

Months of planing, fixing glitches around the clock to the last…