Some CMSs that are used in the newsrooms have a liveblogging interface built into them but I know of ones that come without such a feature. So, while I was updating my list of liveblogging tools I came across a nifty way of using Google Docs for just this very purpose. The folks at Google…
Here is an amazing deployment of a new-generation WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor in the newsroom. The editor, called Aloha, capitalizes on the latest version of HTML – the mark-up language used for rendering web pages – to deliver a totally new kind of editing experience. (Correction – added Oct 30,…
Google News has started rolling out the latest round of changes to the different international versions of its site; and one feature that news sites could leverage to give added visibility to their sites is to deploy Editors’ picks . Introduced in August in the US version of Google News, Google has now started extending…
ProPublica has launched a new tool that allows members of the public to analyze documents and help reporters unearth things that they need to take into account in their investigation. The crowdsourcing of document analysis is nothing new, but the tools that are being used to do that are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Called DocDiver it…
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