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soupsoup: “Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:11:27 -0400

“Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.” - Scott Pelley

7 Ways You Could Tell That AP Tweet Was Fake

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:49:59 -0400

mentalflossr:

Grab your red pens and AP Style Guides and let’s do this.

AP Style. Kind of important if you’re impersonating the Associated Press.

latimes: todaysdocument: mypubliclands: The Federal...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:03:01 -0400

Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps Enrollee Planting a Tree ARC Identifier 594253. todaysdocument.tumblr.com

Students in Guyana are happy that Peace Corps Volunteer Tka Tyne helped revive their local learning center! peacecorps.tumblr.com

2 days ago – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laughs after getting a hug from Ryousei, an 18-month-old he met while touring the Zojoji Shrine, in Tokyo. statedept.tumblr.com

Will the Base Runner Start for Third? by Clifford Berryman, 8/17/1906, U.S. Senate Collection (ARC 6010644) -- Congressarchives.tumblr.com

Gorgeous sunrise photo at Tipsoo Pond in Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington. AmericasGreatOutdoors.tumblr.com

latimes:

todaysdocument:

mypubliclands:

The Federal Government on Tumblr

Increasingly, Federal agencies (like us here at the Bureau of Land Management) are using Tumblr to share photos, science, events, initiatives, and other great content with the Tumblr community. Here’s a list of some awesome Federal government blogs you should be following on Tumblr. It’s probably not exhaustive, but these are the ones we know about that post more than occasionally.

Reblog and help share the word:

America’s Great Outdoors: The Department of the Interior (our parent agency) shares an amazing photo a day of your public lands.

Archivist of the United States: The Tumblr of our “collector in chief” at the National Archives, David S Ferriero.

Bureau of Reclamation: Reclamation, and Interior Dept agency, is the largest wholesale water supplier and the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the United States, with operations and facilities in the 17 Western States.

Congress in the Archives: Since the First Congress in 1789, the records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have documented the history of the legislative branch. The National Archives helps you explore this history.

Conservation at Work: The Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the Department of Agriculture, posts photos of conservation on farms and other private lands across the nation.

Fish and Wildlife Service: The Pacific Region of the FWS encompasses extraordinary ecological diversity. Photos, science, and more.

Internal Revenue Service: Because who doesn’t want tax information on Tumblr? Useful tips, videos, etc., straight from the IRS.

My Public Lands: The awesomeness of the Bureau of Land Management, which manages more than 245 million acres of amazing lands, as told by students, interns, and newer employees.

Our Presidents: One space to bring the past 13 Presidents together. Discover behind-the-scenes history here. Managed by the National Archives.

National Archives: News and current events from the United States National Archives and Records Administration whose holdings include the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, military records, Presidential records, and millions of other documents related to the Federal Government.

Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go? Get up close with the amazing work done by peace corps volunteers.

U.S. Department of State: Videos, photos, testimony, and updates from the State Department. Foreign policy updates on Tumblr—how cool is that?

Today’s Document: Highlighting interesting documents the National Archives’ holdings—both the well-known and the obscure—to observe historical events (usually the significant events but sometimes just the curious ones).

USA.gov: Government made easy. On Tumblr. Enough said.

US National Archives Exhibits: Images and stories from the National Archives related to “Searching for the Seventies: the DOCUMERICA Photography Project,” the newest exhibition on display at the Archives’ facility in Washington, DC.

But wait, there’s more!

Preservation at the National Archives: All things preservation at the National Archives and Records Administration. Posts to this site come from all of the Preservation Programs departments, including: Conservation, St. Louis Preservation, and National Preservation Programs.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library: Dedicated to the memory of our nation’s 35th president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world.

LBJ Time Machine: Taking a trip through time, from the birth of Lyndon Johnson in 1908 through 2013 at the LBJ Library and Museum.

FDR Library: Follow the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum as we count down to the rededication of the Roosevelt Library and the opening of the new permanent museum exhibits.

The Tumblrweed Times from the National Archives at Riverside, CA: We are the National Archives at Riverside—a unit of the U.S. National Archives. Our records document the Federal government in the western states of Arizona, southern California and Clark County, Nevada.

Talk about your comprehensive lists!

"I think it is good to have an out,” such as a part-time job, says photojournalist Michael..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:44:04 -0400

““I think it is good to have an out,” such as a part-time job, says photojournalist Michael Christopher Brown. “This also allows one to spend more time and energy taking pictures of things they are genuinely interested in or passionate about, as opposed to being a professional photographer, which is time consuming and draining on one’s creativity.””

- via PDN: 5 Financial Steps To Launching A Photo Career (via timelightbox)

lapetitetiendita: Today is Record Store Day. If you had the...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:37:51 -0400

lapetitetiendita:

Today is Record Store Day. If you had the chance to own some vinyl pieces from your favourite bands/ artists, what would those be?

New post is up lovelies! :)

emergentfutures: News is bad for you – and giving up reading it...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:22:01 -0400

emergentfutures:

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life, asks Rolf Dobelli.

Full Story: The Guardian

krochmal: (via 10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:01:02 -0400

krochmal:

(via 10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics)

Why Roger Ebert was a good writer

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:34:36 -0400

Why Roger Ebert was a good writer:

parislemon:

Roy Peter Clark for Poynter:

According to traditional standards of newspaper writing, this lead should be a disaster. It is 79 words long, most of them in that first rambling sentence. It begins not with the news but with a subordinate clause. There are no concrete nouns. No strong active verbs. Why, then, do I think it works so well?

In a word, it has voice.

…

Any experienced writer can master the short snappy sentence. It takes a good writer to master the long sentence, the one that takes the reader on a journey of discovery, the one that leads you to a special place you could not have imagined when you stepped on board the bus.

This is exactly why I loved reading Ebert. And, truth be told, it’s the same style of writing that I’ve tried to put forth. Any success that I’ve had as a writer, I’d attribute directly to that notion: voice. Of course, I’m nowhere near Ebert’s level of expertise — give me 40 years.

Email Us! Text Us! Tweet Us! The newscast focused on You. KYOU

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:19:32 -0400

Email Us! Text Us! Tweet Us!

The newscast focused on You. KYOU

journolist: What I think when I read news in the business...

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:02:18 -0400

journolist:

What I think when I read news in the business section.

Why I left news – Sticky Valentines … “This is the...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:48:53 -0400

Why I left news – Sticky Valentines

… “This is the real reason why I left news: I finally came to accept that the vanity of a byline was keeping me in a job that left me physically and emotionally exhausted, yet supremely unsatisfied.” …

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:37:58 -0400

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly

krochmal: (via 6 Portrait Lighting Patterns Every Photographer...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:19:17 -0400

krochmal:

(via 6 Portrait Lighting Patterns Every Photographer Should Know)

Project Argo, meet Project Largo: Open source code finds new use in the sites of nonprofit news orgs » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:20:42 -0400

Project Argo, meet Project Largo: Open source code finds new use in the sites of nonprofit news orgs » Nieman Journalism Lab:

shaneguiter:

Project Argo was a project at NPR, funded by the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to build topic-based verticals at member stations around the country. Those 12 beat blogs — on immigration in California, higher education in Minnesota, oceans and climate in Boston — were built on a set of WordPress-based tools built under the Argo banner.

Argo’s funding ended after two years (most of the blogs live on), but what lived on technologically speaking were those tools — themes, plugins, and lessons. The code lives on GitHub, but as many open source projects have discovered, the fact that code exists in the open is no guarantee that it will ever be used.

Enter Largo, which (loosely) stands for “longform Argo.” Largo was begun by INN in hopes of repurposing what Argo built for iterative blogging for a more traditional news site. Adam Schweigert, INN’s director of technology, was the lead developer on the Largo Project — or as he put it, the man in charge of asking the question, “What should nonprofit investigative news organizations look like on the web?” Most of INN’s members are small shops without much in the way of either tech capacity or excess budget.

How to take a photography portrait in 10 minutes | Art and...

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:59:00 -0500

How to take a photography portrait in 10 minutes | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

On the National Security Beat: Journalism schools experiment with drones as newsgathering tools, but worry about privacy

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:51:54 -0500

On the National Security Beat: Journalism schools experiment with drones as newsgathering tools, but worry about privacy:

natsecbeat:

By ELLEN SHEARER
Medill National Security Journalism Initiative

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, for commercial and law enforcement use in the United States is under increased scrutiny as the Federal Aviation Administration moves forward on implementing laws to regulate…

Hitler Gets Angry When Live Shot Fails

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:10:26 -0500

Hitler Gets Angry When Live Shot Fails

Twitter writing tips for mobile news reporting and live tweeting

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:51:40 -0500

Twitter writing tips for mobile news reporting and live tweeting

Google Drive now lets developers share hosted websites by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files - The Next Web

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:34:16 -0500

Google Drive now lets developers share hosted websites by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files - The Next Web:

shaneguiter:

Google on Tuesday announced that it will allow Web developers to share hosted websites via Google Drive. All you have to do is store your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, and then share a link to your starting HTML file.

In fact, Google is eating its own dog food by hosting the instructions on how to do this yourself, on Google Drive.

Here’s what you have to do:

Create a new folder in Drive and share it as “Public on the web.”

Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.

Open the HTML file & you will see “Preview” button in the toolbar.

Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/… from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.

Instagram for Business: Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:36:00 -0500

Instagram for Business: Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web:

latimes:

instagram-business:

We’re excited to announce the ability to view and engage with your Instagram Feed on the web! I would encourage you to read the blog post below from our co-founder, Kevin Systrom, and to visit instagram.com today to try it out!

instagram:

Today, I’m very excited to announce the…

And speaking of photos…