IJNet spoke with Liz Heron, social media editor of The New York Times, about the hazards of retweeting and the future of the paper's new Twitter feed, @NYTLive, dedicated to breaking news events.
Journalists laid off by cash-crunched newsrooms should consider sending their resumes to social media companies — Google, Twitter and Facebook are all hiring or have recently hired editorial staff.
Each month, IJNet features an international journalist who exemplifies the profession and has used the site to further his or her career. This month's journalist is P. Wanja Njuguna, a Kenyan lecturer and editor working in Botswana.
Both seasoned reporters and newbies can benefit from polishing their interviewing skills. For your next interview, arrive armed with these five tips from IJNet.
A YouTube channel launched to honor fallen journalists has already received more than 70 video submissions. Video tributes have been uploaded from Greece, Thailand and Mexico.
News sites may soon offer writers cash bonuses based on page views, but some fear this model could damage journalism quality. IJNet spoke with USA Today about its possible bonus plan.
No crystal ball can predict the future of journalism, but students at Columbia University are using multimedia to better understand their own future in the profession.
Each month, IJNet features an international journalist who exemplifies the profession and has used the site to further his or her career. This month, meet Chama Darchoul, an online broadcast journalist from Salé, Morocco.
Attendance for the World Press Freedom Day conference in Washington this week was the largest in the event's almost 20-year history, with more than 800 participants.
Gathering information for a story can involve collecting website URLs, photos, screenshots, text messages and tweets. Here are four great tools that will help you keep it together on the go.
An editorial team in the U.K. enters week two of its strike against budget cuts in the hopes of opening talks with the publisher. IJNet followed up with features editor Jonathan Lovett, who helped organize the strike.
The Viewspaper is a news site in India at the forefront of citizen journalism and media innovation for youth. IJNet interviewed founder Shiv Dravid in anticipation of his session during World Press Freedom Day.
For the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize, no winner was named in the breaking news category this year. Pulitzer Prize Administrator Sig Gissler explains why.
Budget and staff cuts force writers to resort to "churnalism," the practice of rewriting press releases as original news. But one U.K. editorial team is going on a two-week strike against the churn. IJNet talked to features editor and strike organizer Jonathan Lovett.
World Press Freedom Day 2011 sponsors include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Open Society Foundations and The Associated Press.
While many major news outlets are downsizing their foreign bureaus or scrapping them altogether, GlobalPost is forging a promising new model for international journalism.