Inspiration

MediaStorm – Originally founded in 1994 at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, MediaStorm relaunched in March of 2005 with a focus on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms. You’ll know when you go to the site why I listed them as inspiration. This is wonderful work.

Videography & Photography

b-roll.net – b-roll.net has been the television photography resource on the web since 1996. Thousands of professional photographers, videographers, cameramen, editors, shooters, cammos and photojournalist from across the globe gather daily to discuss the latest in our industry.

Independent Media

DEMOTIX – Demotix is a citizen-journalism website and photo agency. It takes user-generated content and photographs from freelance journalists and amateurs, and markets them to the mainstream media.


Online Journalism Blogs

• Online Journalism Review (OJR) – probably the “start here” blog in this category, Online Journalism Review is the Knight Digital Media Center’s blog on news, commentary and media criticism for online journalists, publishers and other bloggers
• Andy Dickinson – online journalism, newspaper video and digital media
• Publishing 2.0 – a blog about how technology is transforming media, news and journalism
• Journalism.org – this site is produced by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism – it’s jam-packed with information on everything you ever wanted to know about journalism
• Net Worked (SPJ) – formerly Technolo-J, this SPJ blog is dedicated to covering “tomorrow’s digital journalism today” (it’s a great blog all around)
• Eat Sleep Publish – thoughts on the future of publishing; Eat Sleep Publish is a blog dedicated to exploring and understanding the challenges and opportunities facing newspapers, book publishers, and magazines as they strive to understand new media and find ways to support themselves in the digital age.
• MediaShift (PBS) – your guide to the digital media revolution
• Peter Kafka | Media Memo | AllThingsD – Peter has been covering media and technology since 1997, enough said.
• Campfire Journalism – notes on teaching interactive storytelling
• CyberJournalist – a leading site about online news, digital technology and innovation in media
• Contentious – Amy Gahran’s news and musings on how we communicate in the online age
• Convergence Commons – Jackie Hai’s blog on multimedia, business and community education
• (Poynter) – news and analysis from the world of online journalism, media and publishing
• Ink Drained Kvetch – ramblings on journalism, media and work in the digital age
• News for Digital Journalists – dedicated to helping good journalism – and good journalists – thrive in the digital age
• The Kicker (CJR’s Daily Blog) – another great blog that always has fresh content on the world of journalism – one my favorite CJR blogs
• SteveOuting.com – former “Stop the Presses!” columnist for Editor & Publisher, Steve Outing is a veteran journalist who regularly blogs on digital media, Web 2.0 and news in the Internet era
• Journerdism – online journalism, multimedia, social media, mobile, tech news and ideas
• Vadim Lavrusik – put this on your “ones to watch” list too. Vadim covers all the latest developments on advancements in digital media and online journalism, from the perspective of recent grad pursuing his Master of Science in Digital Media at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He also writes for Poynter and Mashable on digital media and online journalism topics.
• Innovation Journalism – comments on the development of the concept and the community of Innovation Journalism
• DigiDave - David Cohn’s blog from the perspective of a Knight News Challenge winner and founder of Spot.Us (see below); Journalism is a process, not a product
• Invisible Inkling – Ryan Sholin’s blog about the changing news business, journalism education and the technologies that support them
• These Digital Times – John Welsh’s blog dedicated to observing and supporting all our journeys from traditional to digital media (this one’s a little out of date – hopefully John will pick things back up in 2010)
• Institute for Analytic Journalism – site dedicated to researching and developing non-traditional methods and communications tools for journalism – there are a lot of good nuggets here
• The Linchpen – Greg Linch’s blog about online journalism and journalism education
• Reportr.net – making sense of the intersection between media, society and technology

Citizen Journalism Blogs

• pjnet (Public Journalism Network) – the official blog of the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. The blog regularly features content surrounding public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens’ voices heard.
• Mediactive – Dan Gillmor’s insightful blog, aimed at helping us all become active and informed users of media
• The Editorialiste – citizen journalism has become a watchdog for professional journalists, who in turn report on the very phenomenon that watches them. But who’s watching both? That’s where The Editorialiste comes in.
• Cplash – the citizen journalism site, Cplash presents citizen’s views on news and matters concerning society in India and the rest of the world. While not focused on the U.S., Cplash is a great resource on this topic.
• I, Reporter – inspiring, guiding and educating citizen journalists and the news organizations that work with them
• Independent Media Center – IndyMedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage
• Alltop – Top Citizen Journalism News – citizen journalism news and headlines from across the Web

Investigative Journalism Blogs

• The Muckraker – one of several excellent investigative reporting blogs from the Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization
• at-Largely – Larisa Alexandrovna’s blog for investigative journalists, written from the perspective of an investigative journalist
• Washington Post Investigations – watchdog journalism from The Post and around the Web
• Nieman Watchdog Blog – a blog dedicated to the questions the press should ask

Misc.

David Bannerman – David is my radio production and technology instructor. If you have questions on audio problems he’ll be the guy to ask.