Class resources

What is convergence journalism? A few web-based examples:

A People Torn: Liberians in Minnesota by the Minneapolis Star Tribune
www.startribune.com/projects/liberia/index.html

Crisis in Darfur by WashingtonPost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/chad/index.html

Slim Talks Turkey by USA Today
www.usatoday.com/life/gturkey_weight/flash.htm

Final Salute by The Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
denver.rockymountainnews.com/news/finalSalute/flash/index.cfm

Vietnam 25 years After the War by The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/vietnam-flash/index.html

Dying Tongues by The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead/in-forum.com
www.in-forum.com/specials/DyingTongues/

Blackhawk Down by The Philadelphia Inquirer
Regarded as first convergence project at a U.S. newspaper --1997. We've come a long way.
inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov22/default22.asp

Poynter Institute new journalism timeline.

Editor's Weblog Newsletter.

Fargo-Moorhead theatre contact list and spring 2008 play schedule.

What will become of journalism? Goodbye Gutenberg: A thorough examination of the future of newspapers and news by the Nieman Foundation.

Tutorials:

• Journalism using Flash.
• Should you use flash? Pros and cons from About.com.
• Software tutorials from lynda.com.

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