Via Mashable:
In the ever-evolving world of social media, public relations professionals (PR) and journalists have more opportunities than ever to build strong relationships.
It serves each of us well to stay up on social media trends—learning faster, easier ways to share information.
With that, here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists.
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Via International Center for Journalists:
10 Steps to Citizen Journalism Online is an interactive training module intended as a basic introduction to the new online world of Web logs or “blogs.”
We all have news and stories to tell. But the Internet lets us tell our stories to the world. If you want to tell something important to others, this guide will help you. It’s a basic outline that will help you build the machinery that runs your blog: your words and images. Other guides are technological. This guide tells you how to gather information and how to tell it – and tell it accurately.
This guide was prepared by Stephen Franklin, a former ICFJ Knight Fellow in Egypt.
Access the the 10 Steps.
The Digital Journalist: January 2009
Feature article/gallery: From the ‘Train of Death’ to the ‘Wall of Shame’ by by James Whitlow Delano.
Much has been made of the perils undocumented workers face crossing the southern border of the United States in search of work and a better life. For Central Americans, the U.S. border marks the end of one of the longest, most treacherous migrations on the planet. Still there has been a rise of 50 percent of undocumented Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras living in the U.S. since 2000.
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Pulitzer Prizes Broadened to Include Online-Only Publications Primarily Devoted to Original News Reporting (Press Release - December 08, 2008)
The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced today.
The Board also has decided to allow entries made up entirely of online content to be submitted in all 14 Pulitzer journalism categories.
While broadening the competition, the Board stressed that all entered material — whether online or in print — should come from United States newspapers or news organizations that publish at least weekly, that are “primarily dedicated to original news reporting and coverage of ongoing stories,” and that “adhere to the highest journalistic principles.”
Consistent with its historic focus on daily and weekly newspapers, the Board will continue to exclude entries from printed magazines and broadcast media and their respective Web sites.
“This is an important step forward, reflecting our continued commitment to American newspapers as well as our willingness to adapt to the remarkable growth of online journalism,” said Sig Gissler, administrator of the Prizes. “The new rules enlarge the Pulitzer tent and recognize more fully the role of the Web, while underscoring the enduring value of words and of serious reporting.”
The Board will continue to monitor the impact of the Internet, Gissler said.
Beginning in 2006, online content from newspaper Web sites was permitted in all Pulitzer journalism categories, but online-only newspapers were not allowed to submit entries, and entirely-online entries were permitted in only two categories, breaking news coverage and breaking-news photography.
In addition to text stories, the competition will continue to allow a full range of online content, such as interactive graphics and video, in nearly all categories. Two photography categories will continue to restrict entries to still images.
The Board adopted the changes at its November meeting at Columbia University after a lengthy study by a committee.
The Board also refined the definition for its prize on Local Reporting of Breaking News. To emphasize immediacy, the new definition states that “special emphasis” will be given to “the speed and accuracy of the initial coverage.”
The Board, Gissler said, hopes that this will encourage the submission of more online material in the category.
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