Sports coverage and real-time reporting is a match made in heaven. It’s like football and a pork pie, baseball and a hotdog or ice hockey and something smothered in maple syrup. A journalist watches the match and describes every goal, injury and incident with the wizardry of his words and embellishes the story with videos, pictures and tweets.
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Monday, March 18th, 2013Kwame Kilpatrick verdict draws 70,000 viewers
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013Detroit Free Press readers were glued to the news site’s live coverage of the Kwame Kilpatrick trial verdict on Monday. The former mayor of Detroit was convicted of 24 of the 30 charges laid against him, including fraud and extortion. The live coverage was so successful that when reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jim Schaefer bid adieu to his audience, he also had this to boast: 
So how did they do it? (more…)
New Tricks: 68-year-old Journalist Shows the Way
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013It’s a question you hear in newsrooms around the world: how do you get print and web journalists working together without sparking tribal warfare between old school reporters and the more digitally-inclined. Sometimes it takes a 68-year-old Swiss journalist armed with a liveblog to show that it can be done.
Anton Schaller is a journalist, former presenter and politician; he is a trusted voice in Swiss politics and, in the words of a younger colleague, ‘a TV legend’. He is now also a certified Scribbler! (more…)
Update your degree at ScribbleU: New courses, training hub and flexible scheduling
Monday, March 4th, 2013Class is back in session at ScribbleU, and the coursework is more customizable than ever.
Last year, we introduced ScribbleU, a training structure that allows users to learn about ScribbleLive at their own pace. This week, we’re releasing a revamped curriculum and new tools, making the training process as painless as possible while giving you easy access to great real-time storytelling resources.
We have a series of new classes, ranging from sports to real-time ethics. Keep your eyes on the sign-up page as new courses are added to the mix.
In addition to the new webinars, we have written each course into the ScribbleU Wiki. Here, you can find not only the step-by-step walkthroughs of each class, but examples of events and documentation that walks you through the production of great content.
Tech Alert: TimelineJS
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012Our clients are always surprising us with the innovative ways they’re using our technology. A great example is one client who took a unique approach to a discussion they hosted about a German political party: they created an interactive timeline.
The new world order of journalism
Monday, December 3rd, 2012One doesn’t have to look far to see how the landscape of journalism is changing. From the rocket-streaked night skies of Palestine to the local pub on election night, new journalists are emerging with even newer reporting techniques. And in a recent essay that comes from Columbia University’s Tow School for Digital Journalism, these changes are just the beginning.
“This essay is part survey and part manifesto, one that concerns itself with the practice of journalism and the practices of journalists in the United States. It is not, however, about ‘the future of the news industry,’ both because much of that future is already here and because there is no such thing as the news industry anymore,” the introduction boldly states.
Jeff Sonderman at the Poynter Institute offers an insightful précis for those of us without the time to read an entire manifesto, pointing out that the role of the journalist has shifted: instead of being the hand that delivers the facts, journalists will soon take on more of an editorial role. In short, they will act as a go-between for the information and reader, or “an investigator, a translator, a storyteller.”
Spotlight: Ryerson, Politics and Syndication
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
So what happens when a Canadian student wants to cover the United States presidential debate? You’d think that being north of the border without a travel budget would leave them out in the cold, right?
Not true! The Ryerson University student paper, The Ryersonian, grabbed a syndicated feed provided by Boston.com and the Boston Globe. Using their coverage as a baseline, The Ryersonian was able to add their own nuanced content, as well as report from the live video feed that many outlets were providing. (more…)
The future of news from a Forbes insider
Monday, October 29th, 2012Lewis DVorkin earned his journalism degree in 1974 – an age when he self-admittedly aspired to be a “newspaperman.” But now, he’s recognizing the changing journalism world. He’s changing the way mega-news-organization Forbes operates to help it thrive in the digital age.
Forbes’ new model, DVorkin writes in his e-book book The Forbes Model for Journalism in the Digital Age, hinges on “listening and engaging with news consumers.”
DVorkin recognized that digital audiences want lots of news. So, Forbes employed content creators who “turn out thousands of posts – nearly 100,000 in 2011.” Now, that’s a lot of news! (more…)
Liveblog spotlight: Five blogs from this week
Friday, October 26th, 2012This week our clients witnessed the arrival of the iPad Mini, chatted about the Lance Armstrong controversy, learned about their financial futures, watched the news in North Wales, and viewed the final debate between Mitt Romney and U.S. President Barack Obama. (more…)
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