Here are the posts covering some of the highlights of the International Online Journalism Symposium for 2012 at UT Austin: Japan tsunami photos highlight human cost, study finds In the final research panel at ISOJ, Rosellen Downey, Erika Johnson, and Bailey Brewer, University of Missouri, looked at the coverage in photos of the Japanese tsunami. WSJ Raju Narisetti on the need to create great news experiences The last keynote at

There is a seasonal theme to this month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by The Guardian Developer blog. Journalists are being asked when would be the best present from programmers and developers, and vice versa for developers. It is a key question as it focuses on the intersection of emerging communication technologies and journalistic norms and practices. The way journalists do what they do has always been affected by technology, from the

The Washington Post’s Mark Luckie gave an insight into his role during a session on innovative storytelling at the Journalism Interactive conference. Luckie is national innovations editor at the Post. His job is to be responsible for web section of the national coverage, figuring out a web strategy for the stories that reporters are working on and editors are planning. Luckie explained how the Post had moved away from the web as an

A survey of nearly 500 journalists across 12 countries offers some insights into what reporters are doing on Twitter. It found that nearly half of respondents (47 per cent) said they used Twitter to source new story angles, compared to 35 percent who used Facebook. But conventional PR sources far outweighed the use of social media for story ideas, with 62 per cent of journalists sourcing stories from PR agences and 59 per

Here’s something for a holiday Easter weekend. A wonderful cartoon by Rob Cottingham on how to explain the internet. Noise to Signal Cartoon

Given the international launch of the iPad, I thought I would reflect on some of the apps that suggest the power and impact of this device. I have had an iPad for a few weeks.  My initial impressions were that it was an interesting device but I was unconvinced as to its purpose. Image by Veronica Belmont via Flickr Now that I have it for some time, and have customised

The Online News Association conference session on the semantic web has been scheduled on a sunny afternoon in San Francisco. But there is still a decent turnout, demonstrating there is an interest in discovering how this idea can play a part in journalism. Paul Berry, CTO of Huffington Post defines the semantic web as the ability to pull context from any body of text and structure or categorise it –

Here is my latest column for PBS Mediashift on how journalism students are taking to social media to build up a reputation: One of my students landed her first A1 story on Monday. Amanda Ash’s story on auditions for the sequel to the teen vampire blockbuster “Twilight” was splashed across the front page of the Vancouver Sun. But she first alerted me, and her 130 other followers on Twitter, to

What a difference four years make in the life of a presidential election. As the New York Times has noted, this campaign has been fought, dissected and shared on forms of media that were merely a twinkle in 2004. On election day, there are an overwhelming number of ways to tap into the pulse of voters. Chrys Wu has put together a comprehensive list of sites to follow the results,

Susan Mernit was in Vancouver on Monday for a Knight News Challenge meetup. Around 40 people were there to hear how to get a slice of the millions the Knight Foundation is investing in innovative projects from around the world. Susan explained that the Knight News Challenge is looking for four things in a proposal: It has to be innovative. But this can also be dependent on the geographic location