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Class meetings will include group discussion around the previous week’s reading assignments. I will also regularly share optional reading materials via Twitter and Tumblr. Please feel free to share any of your favorite articles, blog posts, etc. with the class on those platforms.
Glossary of common terms used in digital journalism (Journalist’s Resource)
New Media Toolkit (Renaissance Journalism Center)
Resources for journalists who cover trauma (Dart Center)
W3Schools’ HTML and CSS tutorials
Tech support cheat sheet (xkcd)
Fungible (Stijn Debrouwere)
The girl’s guide to staying safe online (Sady Doyle)
That’s no phone. That’s my tracker (Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan)
Playing defense (Sherry Ricchiardi)
How journalists can secure their digital perimeter (Eric Westervelt)
Why journalists? Because people are sick of being lied to (Laurie Penny)
Teaching journalists to read (Felix Salmon)
Mom, this is how Twitter works. (Jessica Hische)
What I learned in Joplin (Brian Stelter)
Twitter data shows “burstiness” boosts followers (Steve Buttry)
Twitter for newsrooms (Twitter Media)
[LA] Times reporters in 140 characters (Jessica Lum)
Vintage Tweets (Twopcharts)
How our university newspaper used social media to find news and break it (Suzanne Yada)
(Video) NPR’s Andy Carvin on tracking and tweeting revolutions (Hari Sreenivasan)
Twitter’s real-time human computation engine (Edwin Chen and Alpa Jain)
How to verify a tweet (Craig Kanalley)
Correct, don’t delete, that erroneous tweet (Scott Rosenberg)
Why journalists must understand link journalism (Daniel Bennett)
Why do we link in news stories? (Mathew Ingram)
Journalists, take another look at Tumblr (Mindy McAdams)
SEO basics (Yahoo! Style Guide)
For Snopes.com, debunking the Bambi hoax was all in a day’s work (Online Journalism Review)
Crap Detection 101 (Howard Rheingold)
Research strategies (Journalist’s Resource)
What does California law say about audio recording? (RCFP)
On Interviewing (Alex Blumberg)
Radio: An Illustrated Guide (Jessica Abel and Ira Glass)
Know your rights: photographers (ACLU)
10 questions to ask when taking a digital photo (Darren Rouse)
Telling stories with photos (Rouse)
Framing your shots (Rouse)
Rule of Thirds (Rouse)
Fill your frame (Rouse)
Finding fresh angles to shoot from (Rouse)
10 quick smartphone photography tips (Sarah)
30 shocking and unexpected Google Street View photos (Jon Rafman)
Street photography (Wikipedia)
Learn to shoot video (Mindy McAdams)
Edit your video with iMovie or Windows Movie Maker (Mindy McAdams)
Sequencing: the foundation of video storytelling (Colin Mulvany)
Loyalty, obsession and the extreme opposite of “all the news that’s fit to print” (Jay Rosen)
Look, you’re right, okay? But you’re also wrong. (Jay Rosen)
Selections from a special report by The Economist:
The people formerly known as the audience
