Thanks @waxpancake for the how to on audio transcriptions w/AmazonMechanicalTurk & thanks @deanna for the link amazing!

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If you are gathering and disseminating news and information in any medium, this guide is for you. It will be as useful to bloggers as to a staff reporter at a national newspaper.

. Please support "WatchdogWarriors" features censored info on big issues. Great project by @veritasclub #journalism #fb

@juliannehing right? pretty wild. and that LAT series just won the Phillip Meyer Journalism Award.


Three major investigative reports that used social science research methods as key parts of their probes were named today as winners of the 2010 Philip Meyer Journalism Award.


The Los Angeles Times took first place for its project “Grading the Teachers.” Using gain-score analysis, the staff at the Times analyzed the test scores of individual students and their teachers to identify the most and least effective teachers based on the how much their students’ test scores improved.

In second place is “Sexual Assault on Campus,” a project spearheaded by the Center for Public Integrity. The series utilized survey methods to outline the impact of unreported sexual assaults on campuses across the country.

Third place goes to the The Orange County Register for “Immigrants and the California Economy.” Through census and immigration data, the series revealed that the state of California relies on immigrant labor more than any other state. Analysis of these two data sets showed immigration enforcement policies have been ignored for decades in the state.

The Meyer Award recognizes the best uses of social science methods in journalism. The awards will be presented on February 25 in Raleigh, N.C. at the 2011 CAR Conference. The first-place winner will receive $500; second and third will receive $300 and $200 respectively.

The award is administered by the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (a joint program of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Missouri School of Journalism) and the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

New #hackshackers job board #journalism #jobs #media

Sharpen your #multimedia storytelling skills with these Knight Digital Media online tutorials: #journalism #media

Good list. RT @Poynter The 20 @sxsw Interactive panels journalists should attend , as selected by @mallarytenore

There's lots of media chatter about Comedy Central host Jon Stewart in the wake of yesterday's Senate vote to pass the 9-11 first responders bill. The chatter surrounds what appears to be the central media role Stewart played in shining a spotlight on how Republicans were blocking the legislation and, just as importantly, how the Beltway press was, inexcusably, ignoring the unfolding story. 

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Soundslides operates in a single window on your Windows or Mac OS X computer, with a straightforward interface that leads you through importing your images and audio. Editing tools are familiar and behave the way you'd expect.

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It doesn't do print layout. You can't use it to mix your band's new demo. What Soundslides does is make it easy for you to present your images with impact, then sync them seamlessly with any audio track. With Soundslides Plus, you can even skip the sound and just focus on the images.

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Are you a photojournalist needing to document an overseas trip in a full-screen presentation on your organization's Web site? Soundslides makes it simple. Are you a public relations officer documenting your firm's projects in a blog? Soundslides does that too, with online tools that make embedding easy.

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Soundslides has been in use at major media outlets and public relations offices around the world since 2005, and it's a favorite of university media labs. Whether it's breaking news or a project that landed on your desk at the last minute, Soundslides provides the simplicity and reliability to get your project online with time to spare.

Publish2 News Exchange (P2X) is the easiest way to share and distribute content for print and Web publishing. Through P2X, you can set up newswires, subscribe to newswires from a wide variety of news organizations and automate the importing and exporting of content for your print and Web publishing systems.

First I spent nine months looking for my next gig, landing at TBD as Director of Community Engagement. So I studied the issue from the hunter perspective. More recently I have filled five positions on my community-engagement team (hope to fill one more position before long). I have screened more than 100 applicants and interviewed more than a dozen.

I recently shared advice on redirecting and rejuvenating your career, and this post will overlap with that one. But here I will focus strictly on your pitch to your next boss.

Founded in 2008 by serial entrepreneur Peter Shankman, Help A Reporter Out (HARO) is one of the fastest-growing social media services in North America.
Every day, HARO brings nearly 30,000 reporters and bloggers, over 100,000 news sources and thousands of small businesses together to tell their stories, promote their brands and sell their products and services.
Since its inception, Two Cats and a Cup of Coffee under its mark HARO has published more than 75,000 journalist queries, has facilitated nearly 7,500,000 media pitches, and has marketed and promoted close to 1,500 brands to the media, small businesses and consumers.
HARO is entirely free to sources and reporters, and unlike a majority of social media services, is independently owned and funded and has been profitable since day one. In addition, HARO serves as a vital social networking resource for sources, reporters and advertisers who use the service at www.helpareporter.com .

DocumentCloud will be an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them to the web.

Documents will be contributed by journalists, researchers and archivists. If your organization does document-driven investigations, we’d love to have you join us. Using the DocumentCloud workspace, you can upload documents, share them with the rest of your organization and get back the full text and a PDF copy as well as access to a structured search engine and analytical tools to help you make the best use of your documents. You’ll even be able to download a lightweight javascript document viewer that will let you display documents right on your own website.

At the moment, we’re working towards an initial beta release. As we develop the DocumentCloud application, we’re packaging up the components that support it, and releasing them as open-source projects. Our releases so far include: a utility for extracting images and text from document files, an asset packager, a library of functional helpers for JavaScript and a parallel processing system.

Global Voices: Media Operations Center launched for Haitian #journalism #haiti

As a producer of social documentary projects—viewed on digital platforms—Brian Storm talks about the excitement of doing journalism in this way, at this time.

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