Topic: Digital Media

To Prepare for the Future, Skip the Present
‘… today’s obsession with saving newspapers has meant that, for the most part, media companies have failed to plan adequately for tomorrow’s digital future.’
By Edward Roussel

Serendipity, Echo Chambers, and the Front Page
As readers on the Web, we may filter out ‘perspectives that might challenge our assumptions and preconceptions about what’s important and newsworthy.’
By Ethan Zuckerman

Where the Monitor Is Going, Others Will Follow
A decade ago, resistance at The Christian Science Monitor to its online site almost killed it. Now, the newspaper is depending on the Web for its survival.
By Tom Regan

Defining an Online Mission: Local Investigative Reporting
At the nonprofit voiceofsandiego.org, ‘From our first day our job has been to fill the gaps between what people want from their local media and what they have.’
By Andrew Donohue and Scott Lewis

The Web: Fertile Ground for Investigative Projects
‘Digital journalism could not be the sole domain of breaking news and blogging, and it had to be more than the repository of electronic reprints.’
By Maud Beelman

Tracking Toxics When the Data Are Polluted
How computational journalism can uncover what polluters would prefer to hide.
By James T. Hamilton

Using Multimedia to Tell an Investigative Story About Innocence
‘Two departments within our newspaper—editorial and new media—had to work closely together to construct the project.’
By Christine Young

Video News Reporting: New Lessons in New Media
‘What would it take to create good video journalism for online audiences, inexpensively and in an idiom that looked neither too homemade nor too much like TV?’
By Nick Penniman

Using Social Media to Reach Young Readers
In reporting on a case of a police informant who’d been murdered, the Tallahassee Democrat relied on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and text messages to get its reporting to young readers.
By Julia Luscher Thompson

Watchdog Analysis: Offering Context and Perspective Online
At the Beacon in St. Louis, reporters attempt to ‘provide context to illuminate why something is happening, explain what’s at stake, and assess what might—or what should—happen next.’
By Margaret Wolf Freivogel

Dealing With Disruption
As digital media gets ‘better, faster and cheaper. … [there is] little time for long-established human institutions like journalism to adapt.’
By Jon Palfreman

What’s Old Can Be New Again—Assisted By Digital Media
‘It’s not a digital update of the newspaper, but it is a digital update of the community connection role I first learned about as a youth in Shenandoah.’
By Steve Buttry