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Week 14 – Google Analytics basics

Week 14 – Google Analytics basics

This week we cover the basics of Google Analytics and why it’s important to know in online journalism.

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Week 13 – The Poor Journalist’s Toolkit

Week 13 – The Poor Journalist’s Toolkit

You’re a journalism student. You open your wallet looking for a fiver but a moth flutters out.

Turns out you don’t quite have the cash to pay for the tools you need to become an award-winning reporter. After all, Photoshop, Office, Audition and Final Cut Pro don’t come cheap. So what to do?

Luckily, there are alternatives that are pretty close to as good as the industry standards.

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Mark Dailey, Ross Kentner 2011 RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

Mark Dailey, Ross Kentner 2011 RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Award recipients

The late Mark Dailey, baritone voice of Citytv and CityNews anchor in Toronto, will receive the 2011 RTNDA Canada Lifetime Achievement Award.

The award will be accepted by Dailey’s wife, Kim, and Citytv news executive Tina Cortese at the RTNDA Central Region Awards Banquet in Waterloo, Ont., on May 7.

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Week 10 – Data visualization, aka graphics

Week 10 – Data visualization, aka graphics

One thing is increasingly true wen it comes to journalism online: People don;t like reading long grey blocks of text.

“Small screens and ever-present distractions make it imperative that content be easily digestible and, if possible, interactive,” Tim Currie writes on page 295 of The New Journalist.

He adds that today there are more and more agencies, government included, that are making data public. These can be a goldmine for a journalist. But they tend to be database or spreadsheet tables — not very digestible.

So what to do?

“The answer,” Currie writes, “is data visualizations.”

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Week 8 – Geeking it up with video online

Week 8 – Geeking it up with video online

Chances are you won’t have to worry too much about video formats, but knowing about them is not a bad thing.

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Week 7 – Audio in a multiplatform world

Week 7 – Audio in a multiplatform world

Week 7 – Audio in a multiplatform world

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Week 5 – Google Maps

Week 5 – Google Maps

Week 5 – Google Maps

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Week 4 – Telling stories with photos and cutlines

Week 4 – Telling stories with photos and cutlines

Week 4 – Telling stories with photos and cutlines

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Week 2 – An intro to adding content to a news site

Week 2 – An intro to adding content to a news site

Week 2 – An intro to adding content to a news site

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Welcome to the Multiplatform Journalism Lab

Welcome to the Multiplatform Journalism Lab

Welcome to the Multiplatform Journalism Lab @ Morningside.

By the end of this course, 15 weeks from now, you’ll hopefully have had some fun on your way to becoming true multiplatform journalists.

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year

Facebook’s Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine’s 2010 Person of the Year.

Zuckerberg, 26, was chosen “for connecting more than half a billion people, … for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we all live our lives,” the magazine said.

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Citytv news anchor Mark Dailey dies at 57

Citytv news anchor Mark Dailey dies at 57

Mark Dailey, the baritone voice of Citytv and CityNews anchor, died yesterday from cancer at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto. He was 57.

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