Tow Center→ Twitter and managing journalistic work: Between distraction and optimization

2017-01-20 Note: This is the fourth post in the Beyond 140 characters series, which investigates how, why, and under what circumstances political journalists engage with Twitter. This piece shares some of the project’s key findings. The previous post reflected …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Mercy Street Season 2 Digital Assets

2017-01-18 Mercy Street returns this Sunday, January 22,  and a wide variety of assets and opportunities exist for digital to support the second season of this exciting drama. Promotional Assets A full suite of promotional assets is available now to help yo …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ TechCon 2017 Registration is Now Open

2017-01-18 Viva Las Vegas!Its that time of year again when public media descends upon Las Vegas to get our Tech on. TechCon 2017 registration is now open. This year's digital track will focus on multi-platform strategy and tactics, with the sessions covering a va …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ APPLY NOW: PBS Digital Launches the Digital Immersion Project, Kicking off at TechCon 2017

2017-01-13 It’s a new year, and with it comes the urge to set new goals and objectives, buoyed by the promise of new possibilities.In the spirit of harnessing those ambitions, PBS Digital is excited to announce a new professional development opportunity for sta …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Dozens of Hacks/Hackers jobs open up in the first weeks of 2017

2017-01-13 It’s a new year, hacks and hackers, and newsrooms seem to be ushering in the new: more than two dozen job openings were posted since our last newsletter, ranging from Research Professor to... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join ou …›

Hacks/Hackers→ Hacks/Hackers enters 2017

2017-01-06 Welcome to a new year, hacks and hackers! 2016 was a tumultuous one for many Hacks/Hackers groups around the world, and 2017 may or may not be more stable. Last week we featured NiemanLab’s... Visit Hacks/Hackers to read the full post and join o …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Innovative Ideas & Amazing Possibilities: The Digital Media Advisory Council

2017-01-04 by Cheraine Stanford | Senior Producer/Director | WPSUWhat do you get when you gather a group of smart, thoughtful, people from public media stations around the country in a room to talk about the future of digital media?The answer is a lot of inn …›

PRX→ 2016 Press Picks: Best of Radiotopia

2016-12-29 2016 was a banner year for Radiotopia. We performed our first live show, ran an hugely successful Podquest competition (look for Ear Hustle this summer!), added three new podcasts, and much more. We are so grateful to our fans for the love and support …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Sherlock Season 4: Tune in or Streaming Event

2016-12-22 To take advantage of the new season of Sherlock on Masterpiece, streaming availability in COVE will be available directly after the East Coast broadcast. This opportunity will allow stations to promote broadcast tune-in or streaming online starting at …›

PRX→ Announcing the Project Catapult Cohort!

2016-12-21 PRX is excited to announce the first cohort of Project Catapult, an innovative podcast training project for public media stations, made possible by a $1 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The project initially intended …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How We Cleaned Up And Ranked Our Listeners’ Favorite Albums of 2016

2016-12-16 All Songs Considered asks listeners for their favorite albums of 2016 At the beginning of December 2016, All Songs Considered followed a nice tradition and asked listeners for their favorite albums of 2016. Users could enter up to five different album …›

PRX→ PRX Remix Picks: Dreams Deceived, Deferred, Fulfilled

2016-12-15 This month, I’m featuring stories about dreams: the tale of a woman who dreams of a bigger apartment, the consequences of a jail system that puts dreams on hold, and a mother-daughter team helping each other to fulfill lifelong ambitions. Time to “ …›

PBS Digital Stations Blog→ Mercy Street Season 2 Digital Content

2016-12-12 Season 2 of Mercy Street premieres January 22 and to help you with promotion, below is an overview of some of the digital support you’ll see in the coming weeks:WebsiteContinuing to build on the dynamic Mercy Street website from last season, the …›

PRX→ Radiotopia Fall Fundraiser 2016: We Did it Again!

2016-12-02 We recently wrapped up our Radiotopia 2016 fall fundraiser, and were blown away by the love and support from our fans, both old and new. With every drive, we gain new and important insights into the podcast fundraising universe and our dedicated fanbas …›

NPR visuals team blog→ What makes a great photo editing intern (Apply now for Winter/spring 2017!)

2016-10-12 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→ Be our design/code/??? intern for winter/spring 2017!

2016-10-12 Map by Visuals Team intern Brittany Mayes Are you data-curious, internet savvy, and interested in journalism? Do you draw, design, or write code? We are looking for you. We’ve had journalists who are learning to code, programmers who are learning a …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Pym.js v1.0.0 release – what do you need to know

2016-08-30 The NPR Visuals Team happy to announce the release of Pym.js v1.0.0. We want to share with all of you the goals that we hope to achieve with it and the design process that led us to the new release. But wait, what is Pym.js for? Pym.js embeds and res …›

NPR visuals team blog→ How we built a VR project using web technologies

2016-07-22 A screenshot of Standing At The Edge Of Geologic Time in virtual reality. Last Wednesday, the NPR Visuals Team published a virtual reality story about the geologic history of Rocky Mountain National Park. It was weird! Making a virtual reality projec …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Useful Scraping Techniques

2016-06-17 A recent NPR project that collects structured data about gun sale listings from Armslist.com demonstrates several of my favorite tricks for writing simple, fast scrapers with Python. The code for the Armslist scraper is available on Github. Can you s …›

NPR Storytelling→ We love this Tumblr but…

2016-05-26 …we haven’t updated it in a while. We feel bad about that. It’s because we’ve been focusing on building oodles of storytelling resources over at NPR’s Editorial Training website.So this Tumblr is on vacation. But there’s still lots of …›

NPR visuals team blog→ A Better Way To Track Listening

2016-05-17 .entry section img { margin-bottom: 0; } A screenshot of our elections app titlecard during Mega Tuesday on March 15, 2016. For the entirety of the primary season, we have been running our elections app at elections.npr.org, focusi …›

MediaShift » Idea Lab→ How Libraries Are Curating Current Events, Becoming Community Debate Hubs

2016-05-03 This piece is part of a special series on Libraries + Media. Click here for the whole series. When the Pew Research Center tracks where Americans get their news, we hear about Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, television, newspapers and radio. Libraries d …›

MediaShift » Idea Lab→ Makers Gonna Make, Innovators Gonna Innovate at WVU’s Women’s IoT Makeathon

2016-04-29 The following is coverage from West Virginia University of a recent ‘Hack the Gender Gap’ event, which MediaShift co-hosted with the Reed School of Media. See more coverage here. Makers are going to make, so why not gather them in the same place to …›

NPR visuals team blog→ Why should I Carebot? (Published At The Carebot Blog (thecarebot.github.io))

2016-04-29 Because what gets measured gets done. …›

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

2016-04-08 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→ Be our design/code/??? intern for fall 2016!

2016-04-08 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, …›

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 …›