MediaShift » Idea Lab→ How Virtual Reality Will Revolutionize Multiple Industries

2016-04-05 A version of this piece first appeared on Medium from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Goldman Sachs VR/AR software market assumptions for year 2025 Virtual and augmented reality isn’ …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Lunchbox Update: We’re Dropping Support For Electron

2016-03-21 Last year, NPR Visuals sent a team to OpenNews’s Portland Code Convening to create Lunchbox, a suite of newsroom tools that make images for social media sharing, and make it easily deployable for newsrooms. We decided to experiment with a new w …›

Idea Lab→ Can We Save Journalism?

2016-03-02 This piece first appeared on Medium from the Tow-Knight Center at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Whatever happens next, I am always going to blame Hunter Page and his damn fool questions for starting me off on this journey. Hunter: “Pete, ho …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Reporter/Project Coordinator, Great Lakes Regional Journalism Collaborative

2016-02-24 Position Summary WNED | WBFO, Buffalo, is seeking an experienced journalist to serve as a reporter and project coordinator for the Great Lakes Regional Journalism Collaboration. The position will spend 50% time on each of the two activities and report …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Multimedia Journalist/Reporter

2016-02-24 WOUB is accepting applications for a Multimedia Journalist/Reporter. This position produces high quality broadcast pieces for radio, TV and online focused on topics related to the areas surrounding the Ohio River. Must be able to mine for stories and c …›

Public Media Employment Opportunities: All Positions→ Director of Development

2016-02-24 Director of Development – KRWG at New Mexico State University seeks an experienced fundraising leader that will plan, develop, implement, and manage marketing/fundraising activities including philanthropic initiatives, (Planned Giving & Major Gif …›

NPR Storytelling→ Does anything HAPPEN in your story?In public radio, we cover a…

2016-01-12 Does anything HAPPEN in your story?In public radio, we cover a lot of policy issues affecting LOTS of people. These are hard stories to tell. We gather hours of tape with policymakers and people affected by policies – but it’s challenging to turn t …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Be our design/code/??? intern for summer 2016!

2015-12-16 Illustration by viz team intern Annette Elizabeth Allen! Hey! You! With the weird talent! We have two internships on the Visuals team. One is for photo editing, the other, well, it’s weird. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Summer 2016!)

2015-12-14 Photo by Rachael Ketterer This is not your standard photo internship! This internship is an opportunity to learn more about the world of photo editing. Our goal isn’t to make you into a photo editor; we view this internship as a chance for you to u …›

NPR visuals team blog→ We’re looking for a developer to help us build Carebot

2015-12-14 We’re looking for a programmer to join our team for a few months. Your mission? Break the news’s addiction to pageviews, by bringing meaningful analytics to journalists. Why? At NPR Visuals, our goal is to make people care. To get them …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Introducing Elex, A Tool To Make Election Coverage Better For Everyone (Published At Source (source.opennews.org))

2015-12-10 This new collaboration from the New York Times and NPR needs your help …›

NPR Storytelling→ Gut check: How to capture the emotion of a moment

2015-12-07 What do you do after finishing a bunch of interviews in the field? You double check your recorder… Was I actually rolling? Phew!… You record a bunch more ambience… The producers will always ask me for more… What else?NPR’ …›

J-Lab RSS Feed→ Tow Report Details the Power and Promise of Crowdsourcing

2015-11-25 Posted To: Ideas & Innovation > Blogically ThinkingPosted To: Ideas & Innovation > Articles First published Nov. 23, 2015 on Mediashift.org. Jan Schaffer co-authored this report with Mimi Onuoha, a Fulbright-National Geograph …›

NPR Storytelling→ “The soufflé collapses” and other writing that surprises

2015-11-23 The man in this photo is Ilya Marritz. He is NOT a football player. He’s the host of WNYC’s podcast “The Season,” which ends its season this week. Ilya has been narrating, in serialized form, the story of the underdog Columbia football team.* …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Do Visual Stories Make People Care?

2015-11-19 Since we published Borderland in April of 2014, the NPR Visuals Team has been iterating on a style of storytelling we call “sequential visual stories.” They integrate photography, text, and sometimes audio, video or illustration into a slid …›

NPR visuals team blog→ We’re hiring a developer!

2015-11-06 Love to code? Want to use your skills to make the world a better place? We’re a crew of visual journalists (developers, designers, photojournalists…lots of things) in the newsroom at NPR headquarters in sunny Washington, DC. We make ch …›

NPR Storytelling→ Introducing training.npr.org

2015-11-02 Today we’re very excited to unveil a new site – training.npr.org.We created it for the many journalists working in public media. Sometimes it can feel impossible to find the time and space to hone your storytelling techniques, learn something n …›

NPR Storytelling→ Do you even Snapchat, bro?

2015-10-30 NPR’s social media intern Vesta Partovi has taken our Snapchat/Periscope game to a new level with this custom iPhone rig (dubbed “Wombat”). She put it together with the help of two NPR engineers and photographer John Poole. She writes: The idea …›

NPR visuals team blog→ The Pympocalypse

2015-10-30 Everything was going so well. We finally had a solution for embedding responsive charts inside our CMS. We called it pym.js. We had built a framework around it, the dailygraphics rig, and when that worked for us we shared it with the world. It even wor …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Introducing agate: a Better Data Analysis Library for Journalists (Published At Source (source.opennews.org))

2015-10-27 agate, a Python library optimized for humans, reaches 1.0 …›

NPR Storytelling→ Audio people! Don’t forget to tell stories about soundSometimes,…

2015-10-21 Audio people! Don’t forget to tell stories about soundSometimes, it’s helpful to offer reminders of the obvious: Radio/audio is a really good medium for stories about sound.This segment from All Things Considered last week, especially its intro*, i …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Parsing complex social study data

2015-10-20 NPR’s #15girls project looks at the lives of 15 year old girls around the world. The reporting team was interested in using data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to help inform the reporting and produce a “by-the-numbers” piece. An …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How to be an intern at NPR Visuals (Apply now for Winter/Spring 2016!)

2015-10-14 We’re currently looking for interns for spring 2016! We want to see your best work. Here’s how. Cover letters All candidates must submit a cover letter. Your cover letter should be a statement of purpose. We’re interested in what you’re …›

NPR Storytelling→ Why so many people clicked play on this story’s audio from a congressional hearing

2015-09-30 When people visit NPR.org stories that include audio, few typically click “play” – only about 13 percent. But this piece by NPR’s Eyder Peralta? It got hundreds of thousands of views and about 62 percent of them resulted in a “play.”   …›

NPR Storytelling→ How to make scenes that breathe and move and WORK

2015-09-24 Thanks to an invitation from Storybench.org to write about NPR stories that “breathe life into a neighborhood scene,” I’ve been thinking about what distinguishes audio scenes that are, well … meh … from those that really sing.I cam …›

NPR Storytelling→ Public radio people told a story exclusively on Snapchat…

2015-09-10 Public radio people told a story exclusively on Snapchat … and lived to tell the tale!A couple of weeks ago, Alison MacAdam and I spent a day showing a new employee how a story comes together at NPR, from start to finish. It’s an extensive process …›

NPR Storytelling→ When should you reveal the big magical number?

2015-09-04 When you have a story that’s centered around a huge and surprising number, when do you reveal it?This piece by NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce illustrates how the answer could be different for audio and digital.  It’s about researchers who discovere …›

NPR Storytelling→ Building a neighborhood scene

2015-08-31 On Friday, August 28, two stories on Morning Edition achieved the same thing: They painted effective scenes of single, emblematic streets. The first street is in LA - in this diminutive piece by NPR’s Nathan Rott about Californians limiting their …›

NPR Storytelling→ How doodling can improve your audio story

2015-08-20 Here’s a handy trick from NPR’s Don Gonyea, who has endured more campaign airplanes, Iowa State Fairs, and overstuffed spin rooms than almost anyone. Don is nearly always on a tight deadline, and it turns out he sketches pictures like the doodle b …›

NPR Storytelling→ When you can’t get a story out of your head, write an explainer

2015-08-18 You’ve probably seen the photos: shockingly orange water cascading through Colorado’s Animas River, the contamination the result of an accident by the Environmental Protection Agency at a nearby mine. KUNC reporter Stephanie Paige Ogburn has been …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Work with us this summer!

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NPR Storytelling→ How to tell a powerful story… in real timeAugust 14 is…

2015-08-10 How to tell a powerful story… in real timeAugust 14 is Melissa Block’s last day as host of All Things Considered. After 12 years “in the chair,” she leaves behind thousands of memorable moments. But none are more powerful than her stories from …›

NPR visuals team blog→ It’s time for you to discover your mission.

2015-08-10 I didn’t always have a mission. For the first seven years of my career, I worked in the software industry. The work was interesting, and I had a craft, for sure, but not a mission. All that changed when I quit my job to become a journalist. Our miss …›

NPR Storytelling→ Listen to the work of your colleagues

2015-08-07 From Sara Sarasohn, longtime NPR editor and producer, now editorial leader of NPR One:“When I stopped being a producer, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation and figured that I had mixed more than a thousand reporter pieces. That is what taught me …›

NPR Storytelling→ Tell a small story in order to tell a large one*

2015-08-05 Compliments to Rachel Martin, Jordana Hochman and Connor Donevan at Weekend Edition for this great story last Sunday. They produced an 11-minute piece about two sisters who were stranded in the New Orleans Superdome with thousands of other people aft …›

NPR Storytelling→ One secret to good visual storytelling

2015-07-30 The NPR Visuals team has gotten raves for this story, produced by David Eads and Claire O’Neill in 2014. “Demolished,” about Chicago’s public housing projects, won the top award given out by the Society of News Designers.So why is “Demolis …›

NPR Storytelling→ Sense of place: Learning from “insiders” with outside perspective

2015-07-24 Why would anyone want to trade the comforts of British Columbia for a partially-destroyed, periodically war-torn, 7 mile-long enclave squeezed between Israel and the sea? NPR’s Emily Harris (with editing by Larry Kaplow) recently told the story of …›

NPR Storytelling→ No studio on the road? No problem

2015-07-21 Every radio producer and reporter knows you have to get creative when tracking while traveling. Our engineer, Kevin Wait, says you should try to recreate the studio environment as much as possible — find the quietest area and use something soft above …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How to apply for an internship at NPR Visuals

2015-07-20 We want to see your best work. Here’s how. (In case you missed it, applications are currently open for our fall internships.) Cover letters All candidates must submit a cover letter. Your cover letter should be a statement of purpose. We’re int …›