Storytelling Tools
Storytelling Tools will be a suite of plugins for the WordPress CMS designed specifically for — and with the help of — journalists. We're now interviewing newspaper and magazine staffs, and observing their WordPress workflow and noting the pain points.
We're also collecting data on which newspapers use which CMS (and their choice of Web server and other Web widgets). See our Tools We Use series, below.
The Storytelling Tools survey, out later this month, will ask WordPress users about what enhancements might help them do their ordinary chores, and which might help them do extraordinary storytelling. We will link to the survey from this page, as well as send it to thousands of writers, producers, newspapers, broadcasters, podcasters and freelancers.
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True or false: PolitiFact, pols and pundits
March 7, 2017
Who in the news is lying? Who's telling the truth? To find out we dive into the PolitiFact data.Who in the news is lying? Who's telling the truth? To find out I "scored" each person and group checked by PolitiFact.
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Storytelling Tools
Advice to the media: To fight fake news, stop being like fake news. Stop looking like it. Stop writing like it. Stop promoting it. Stop funding it.
Breaking News 4: When real news is fake
February 15, 2017 -
Storytelling Tools
The fiscal math that explodes the myths we in journalism believe.
Breaking News 3: New media myths
November 15, 2016 -
Storytelling Tools
Every publisher and web user pays an “ad tech tax” — in dollars, time and readership.
Breaking News 2: When good ads go bad
September 11, 2016 -
Storytelling Tools
The first plugin from the Storytelling Tools project is now available and free in the WordPress directory.
Postscript: A WordPress plugin for data visualization and multimedia
August 18, 2016 -
Storytelling Tools
Spike Lee tells the story of his start in film to Missouri School of Journalism students during a master class at RJI.
Documentary class in session at RJI with Professor Spike Lee
April 13, 2016
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Need for speed
Newspaper publishers: How slow is your site? Poor performing websites lose readers and revenue.
Need for speed 3: A news diet for overweight newspaper sites
November 23, 2015 -
Need for speed
Welcome to the weeds, fellow bit-twisters and data divers. Let's chat about the methodologies in the Need for Speed series without worrying about the numeracy nonbelievers.
Need for speed 2: Newspaper data diving, metrics and methodologies
October 21, 2015 -
Need for speed
Dear newspaper publisher: Why is your site so slow? It's still loading and I'm still waiting. Nevermind, I'll just get my news somewhere else.
Need for speed 1: Newspaper load times give ‘slow news day’ new meaning
October 21, 2015
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