Monthly Archives: October 2011

Using Google Docs for liveblogging and a brief look at some other tools

October 31, 2011
Using Google Docs for liveblogging and a brief look at some other tools

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…

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Using a totally new kind of WYSIWYG editor in the newsroom

October 21, 2011
Using a totally new kind of  WYSIWYG editor in the newsroom

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,…

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Here’s how to deploy Editor’s picks on Google News and give added visibility to your news site

October 11, 2011
Here’s how to deploy Editor’s picks on Google News and give added visibility to your news site

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…

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ProPublica’s new tool for crowdsourcing document analysis

October 5, 2011
ProPublica’s new tool for crowdsourcing document analysis

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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