On Tuesday I taught a quick course on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Today I’m speaking at the Missouri College Media Association conference, on much the same thing. So, um, I’m cheating and interrupting the tutorials (which so far includes the basics of HTML and how to create [...]

On Tuesday I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. Yesterday I posted basics of HTML. Today let’s play with tables. HTML does not recognize tabs or more than one space, so [...]

On Tuesday I taught a session on visualizing data at the Knight Center, highlighting free and easy-to-use multimedia tools. Over the next couple of days, I’ll be posting tutorials on everything we discussed. Up first: Basic HTML. HTML, or hyper-text markup language, is not a programming language. It uses tags to create web pages. The [...]

What if a blog hired laid off journalists … h/t @gabehartwig

Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report interviews Newspaper Association of America president John Sturm, part of Colbert’s “Better Know a Lobby” series. Colbert asks Sturm, a lawyer and lobbyist who has been in charge on NAA since 1995, to save the newspaper industry. His advice: Stay in touch with your audience and work with readers. [...]