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December 2008 Lecture Series Webcasts

Fri, Dec. 12, 2008
Our Dec. 16-19 Internet Technology Training Workshop for journalists is fast approaching. Not attending? Please join us online for a series of live webcasts, featuring: Rob Curley of lasvegassun.com, field reporters Jonathan Jones  and Anna Sussman, Alan Mutter of Tapit Partners, Jonathan Krim of the Washington Post, Charlene Li ...

Is Twitter Journalism?

Thu, Nov. 27, 2008

Eye-witness postings on the Mumbai attacks to Twitter have provoked a debate over whether Twitter is a form of journalism and news.

For two views, see Mathew Ingram  (pro) and TomsTechBlog (con).

Also, is CNN going to be the biggest loser to Twitter news?

 

Webcast Listings Updated

Wed, Nov. 26, 2008
We've rebuilt our webcast and presentation system from scratch, providing more detailed information for both archived and future webcasts, and gathering webcast/workshop information together on combined pages. We're now displaying webcasts inline rather than in a separate player, and we've created individual pages for every single ...

HTML 101

Tue, Nov. 18, 2008
Time to start learning HTML? We've re-written our HTML 101 tutorial from scratch, with just enough code to get you started on the road to self-sufficiency.

Orange County Register Using Twitter for Fire Coverage

Sat, Nov. 15, 2008
The Orange County Register is using a Twitter feed to provide reports by people in Orange County about the huge fire there.

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MediaShift Idea Lab . Paul Grabowicz | PBS rss

  • When Will Video Games Become Easy to Create?

    When will we have a software program that makes it as easy to create a video game as iMovie makes creating a video?

    That's a question I've been asking myself a lot, as we prepare to launch our Remembering 7th Street video game project, something we've been ...

  • Newspapers Struggling Online, Not Just in Print

    As disturbing as the recent numbers on declining print circulation and plunging advertising revenue at newspapers have been, less attention has been paid to ominous signs of a slow-down on the online side as well:

    - Most newspaper chains reported online revenue growth in single or low double digits this quarter ...

  • Old and Young Playing a Video Game

    Can a virtual world bring together young and old people to explore a community's history in a shared video game experience?

    This is a question we're pondering in the wake of some user testing of our Remembering 7th Street video game.

    We previously showed a video version of ...

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Seminar Webcasts

Dig Deep: Advanced Reporting and Researching Online

Jul 8, 2008 7:15 p.m. CDT

Amy Webb Webbmedia Group, LLC

Amy Webb discusses advanced reporting techniques using Google and other online search engines

Exploring the Future of Online Journalism

Jul 8, 2008 12:15 p.m. CDT

Geeta Dayal MIT Center for Future Civic Media

Geeta Dayal from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media shares new frontiers for journalism utilizing mobile platforms

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New Projects

Ailey Camp

By Justin Ellis, Jaclyn Giovis, Brad Weisenstein, Ben Garvin, mira oberman,

Eighty-five kids from the Bay Area's toughest neighborhoods spend six weeks learning to dance and to understand themselves at AileyCamp, sponsored by Cal Performances.

Creative Growth

By Alex Figueroa, Julie Simon, Erik Holladay, andrea kissack, Kimberly Hefling, Alec Rosenberg

Creative Growth sparked a movement in the 1970s for artists with disabilities. The Oakland-based center has blossomed into a studio and gallery with international reach that today remains focused on the craft while nurturing artists to create, connect and inspire.

Hip-Hop Heaven

By Steve Lannen, vik jolly, Beth Renneisen, Erika Hobbs, James Michalowski

For five years, Youth Movement Records in downtown Oakland has motivated young African Americans using the discipline that comes from attempting to perfect a craft.

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Workshops

We are currently accepting applications for the 2008-2009 technology and multimedia training workshops.

About the Center

The Knight Digital Media Center is dedicated to helping good journalists and good journalism succeed in the 21st Century. Housed jointly at University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication.

News and commentary from
our sister organization at USC:

USC News Leadership Blog

Where newsroom leaders discuss the challenges and opportunities of transforming their news organizations into creative, adaptive, multi-platform engines of journalism and information.

Online Journalism Review

Where digital pioneers and leaders focus on the future of digital journalism.

Total Community Coverage

Exploring how news organizations can reach under-served "communities of difference" with strategies that blend traditional, digital, and mobile media with practical community outreach skills.

The training provided at USC focuses on leadership and topic training to journalists already working in online, multimedia environments. The seminars aim to increase participants' critical thinking and depth of understanding of the topics they cover and the environment they publish in.

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Additional funding is provided by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

For more information, including future seminars, see the training workshops and About page on this site.

Latest Tutorials

Using WordPress

Published June 23, 2008

New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the WordPress 2.5 publishing platform. Learn how to post and mange your content, as ...

Using Free Web Designs

Published May 21, 2008

Multimedia web sites often take the form of mini sites that don't utilize your publication's design templates. Coming up with fresh, professional-looking web designs for multimedia projects can ...

Map Mashup Resources

Published April 21, 2008

This is a set of resources for map mashups. The resources include links to sample sites used in the KDMC Tech Training Workshops and links to online resources for creating ...

Building Flash Templates

Published Dec. 2, 2008

This tutorial will go through the process of constructing a simple Flash template with three buttons. Each button will take you to a different section of the project that will ...

Using Spreadsheet Data in Google Maps and Google Earth

Published March 14, 2008

How do you take spreadsheet data and turn it into a great looking map? How do you do this without writing a lick of code? These simple steps will make ...

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