How to make a point: 11 tips for making better campaigning films

How to make a point: 11 tips for making better campaigning films.

Making a film that makes a point is a skill that is quite different from knowing about cinematography, and from writing a letter, an article or white paper. To make a good film - one that makes the audience agree with you or the point you're trying to make, you need to do it in the right way

These days, there's massively more opportunity to use video to get your point across. And when you've made your polemic production, you've got more chance than ever to get it seen. We'll talk about this later, but first, let's look at how to approach your campaign right from the start.

http://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/1447-how-to-make-a-point-11-tips-for-making-better-campaigning-films

The Top 4 Tips for Nonprofit Video Projects

The Top 4 Tips for Nonprofit Video Projects.

Jim Havey, Havey Productions

As a filmmaker with more than 30 years of professional experience, I have witnessed the ability of film to get to the heart of a message, faster, and more powerfully than any other medium. That is why I am passionate about helping nonprofits use film to their best advantage.

Here are my top four tips for getting the most out of your film projects to help reach your fundraising and branding goals.

http://www.fundraising123.org/article/top-4-tips-getting-most-out-nonprofit-video-projects

Verification Handbook Mixes Tools, Tips and Culture for Fact-Checking

Verification Handbook Mixes Tools, Tips and Culture for Fact-Checking.

Last week Twitter and CNN announced a major partnership with the data analysis startup Dataminr to shift the way journalists use Twitter as an early alert system for breaking news. Dataminr worked with CNN to fine-tune the algorithms they use, to help close the gap "between the eyewitness wanting to be heard and the journalist who wants to listen," according Twitter's head of news, Vivian Schiller, in a blog post. That gap is not just one of distance or time, but also one of trust.

http://stearns.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/verification-handbook-mixes-tools-tips-and-culture-for-fact-checking/

Learning from prize-winning journalism: how to cover a breaking news story

Learning from prize-winning journalism: how to cover a breaking news story

In Poynter's e-book, "Secrets of Prize-Winning Journalism," we highlight and examine 10 award-winning works from 2013 through interviews with their creators.

These works are inspiring. They're also instructive. Starting with the "secrets" shared with us by their creators, we've extracted some great lessons about how to learn to do better journalism, and paired them with questions to ask in your own newsroom.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/234291/learning-from-prize-winning-journalism-how-to-cover-a-breaking-news-story/

10 Key Skills For Digital Journalists To Hone In 2014

10 Key Skills For Digital Journalists To Hone In 2014

With ever-evolving opportunities to discover and share stories on digital platforms, the need to keep digital skills up-to-date is vital for journalists.

In order to give journalists an idea of some of the main skills to be working on, we sourced ideas from the Journalism.co.uk newsroom and our Twitter community to compile a list of 10 key areas to consider.

We hope that the mix of skills, techniques and qualities listed below would help journalists to stay ahead of the game in terms of digital innovation, be able to harness the latest tools and techniques most effectively and create the best quality content for their audience.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/10-key-skills-for-digital-journalists-to-hone-in-2014/s2/a555503/

Vice News wants to take documentary-style storytelling to hot spots around the globe

Vice News wants to take documentary-style storytelling to hot spots around the globe

If there's a mantra for the team behind Vice News, it might be: Go where the story takes you. The soon-to-launch news channel from Vice is designed for the type of journalist who wants to strap a camera to her back and jump head first into a conflict zone. That's already taken Vice reporters to places like Sudan, Syria, and the Central African Republic, to report on violence inside the country's borders. When Vice News goes live this month, look for a lot more of that.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/01/vice-news-wants-to-take-documentary-style-storytelling-to-hot-spots-around-the-globe/

Do Citizen Journalists Need a Code of Ethics?

Do Citizen Journalists Need a Code of Ethics?

"A blog is not writing. It is graffiti with punctuation." This now famous and quite wonderfully dismissive line is delivered in the movie Contagion by Elliot Gould's character to Jude Law's character. In fact, according to a posting by blogger Tim Baran, graffiti may actually be more long-lasting than a blog, which is estimated to have a "shelf-life" of relevancy of a mere 12 hours. That's for a good blog, and even the worst graffiti takes longer than that to erase.

http://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/23477-do-citizen-journalists-need-a-code-of-ethics.html

Expectations for digital journalists

Expectations for digital journalists.

For all the gloom and doom you hear about the future of the news business, new opportunities seem to pop up all the time. Take the job Holly Edgell has at WCPO, the Scripps-owned television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. She's the "community editor" for WCPO-Digital, a new position that puts her in charge of social media strategy and hyper-local digital news. She's also been charged with fostering the integration of web and TV content.

http://www.advancingthestory.com/2014/01/06/expectations-for-digital-journalists/

Mobile Journalism

Mobile Journalism

This is a collection of mobile resources from Mike Reilley and the Poynter Institute's Regina McCombs, Dave Stanton and Damon Kiesow, as well as many others. A list of mobile reporting tools appears at the end of this page. Most apps are tailored to the iPhone but have versions available for many other smart phones, too.

http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/archive/2014/01/mobile-journalism.html

First-Ever Guide to Online Media Ethics

First-Ever Guide to Online Media Ethics

I'm not sure about "first-ever" since news organizations worldwide have for several years been incorporating online media ethics into their codes, guidelines for good journalistic practice, or whatever they call their respective operating rules.

But I was delighted to receive it this week and thumb through its well thought out sections on news judgment and conflicts, transparency, sourcing ethics, knowing your audience, plagiarism, when problems arise, photos and art, and social media.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/magda-abufadil/first-ever-guide-to-onlin_b_4542245.html