Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
A digital literacy guide for the information age

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Credits Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive A digital literacy guide for the information age     - By Mark Briggs     - Assistant Managing Editor for     Interactive News, The News Tribune Special thanks to The Knight Foundation for its support of this work. Thanks to J-Lab Executive Director Jan Schaffer for her guidance and editing; to former washingtonpost.com editor Steve Fox for his skillful input and editing; and to J-Lab’s Craig Stone for his copyediting, Web production and publishing help. Read the rest of the acknowledgments. (c) 2007 J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park

Reported by Mark Briggs
Edited by Jan Schaffer

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Phil Meyer
Introduction by Mark Briggs

Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
    • Introduction: Today’s special? Acronym soup
    • Digital information: Megabytes, Gigabytes and Terabytes
    • How the Internet works
    • About Web browsers
    • RSS readers and feeds
    • RSS basics
    • Instant messaging
    • File Transfer Protocol

Chapter 2: Web 2.0
    • Welcome to Web 2.0
    • Web 2.0 is all about openness, organization and community
    • Tags and folksonomy: New ways to organize content
    • Can you Digg it?
    • What does this mean for journalism?
    • Don’t know where this is heading?

Chapter 3: Tools and Toys
    • Introduction
    • Tools you should be using
    • Mobile 2.0
    • iPod: The slim, sleek 800-pound gorilla
    • ‘Other’ wireless

Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
    • Introduction
    • Spreadsheets and storing data
    • Your ‘so-called digital life’
    • Crowdsourcing
    • Distributed, collaborative or open-source reporting
    • Summary

Chapter 5: How to Blog
    • Introduction
    • What is a blog?
    • Getting started
    • Terminology
    • Mechanics
    • Frequency and handling comments
    • Using photos and screenshots
    • Love it or leave it

Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
    • Introduction

Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting
    • Introduction
    • The basics: Audio formats
    • Identifying opportunities
    • Buying a recorder
    • Using a microphone
    • Recording with your computer
    • Editing your audio
    • Using time points for speed

Chapter 8: Shooting and Managing Digital Photos
    • Introduction
    • The basics
    • Shooting basic photos with a digital camera
    • Editing photographs digitally
    • Summary

Chapter 9: Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories
    • Introduction
    • Digital video cameras
    • Tapes, batteries and other accessories
    • Zooming, focusing and exposure
    • Get good audio
    • Shooting the video
    • As simple as it gets
    • Do a trial run

Chapter 10: Basic Video Editing
    • Introduction
    • For Mac users: iMovie
    • For PC users: Windows Movie Maker

Chapter 11: Writing Scripts, Doing Voice-overs
    • Introduction
    • Interviewing while recording
    • Voice-overs
    • On-camera standup

Epilogue: Putting It All Together

Appendix:
    • Script for Hurricane Family Feature