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Yahoo! Style Guide Beginning Reporting Digital Journalist Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms You Should Know My High School Journalism Citizen Media Law Project Knight Digital Media Center Community Media Sites Rich Gordon’s Online Community Cookbook Center for Social Media’s Guide to Fair Use in Online Video Journalism 2.0 PDF Downloads IJNet’s 10 Steps to Citizen Journalism Online The New West FAQ for Online Community Journalism Entrepreneurs Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive Citizen Media Sites Things We Like Jump Start Your Reporting Journalism Training Sites See the comments Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive A digital literacy guide for the information age Download PDF version in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Order hard copies here 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 The PDF version of Journalism 2.0 is nowavailable for download. For continuing discussion of new technology for journalists, check out Mark Briggs’Journalism 2.0 site. 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