#Tip: Remember these 4 lessons from ‘the digital edge’

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Brian Moritz spent ten years as a news reporter before beginning a PhD focussing on the evolution of journalists’ routines at Syracuse University. As this article from the Knight Foundation-affiliated MediaShift Idea Lab explains, he spent the last semester flying drones, building virtual reality environments and using 3D printers.

“The future is here,” he says, and details four key lessons for journalism students to take from living life at the cutting edge of technology.

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#Tip: Follow this series on advice for editors

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Steve Buttry has started a series and hashtag on advice for editors (or #advice4editors) as a personal addition to his work as digital transformation editor at Digital First Media and Journal Register Co.

Although it is aimed at new editors in DFM newsrooms it is equally applicable to editors elsewhere or pretty much anyone in the field of journalism: breaking habits, the importance of listening and leading by example may be obvious characteristics but having them illustrated in a newsroom context makes them more applicable – and somehow more real.

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#Tip: Bookmark this list of resources on statistics and data analysis

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The ability to understand data and statistics, or at least turn them into a story, is a central skill in news and investigative journalism. The helpful folks over at 10,000 Words have put together a list of books and resources that can give journalists a solid foundation of the basics.

If you want to find out more about getting started in data journalism this recent Journalism.co.uk podcast features some expert advice. Keep an eye out for more information about data journalism on Journalism.co.uk in the future.

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#Tip: Timeless tips for video journalists

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We might be hurtling ever forward into a future of digital possibilities but sometimes the old advice is still the best. It’s why print journalists are taught Orwell’s five rules for effective writing, published in 1946, and also why video journalist Cyndy Green chose to highlight the unearthed ‘hints to newsfilm cameramen’ by Paul Desdemaines Hugon, news editor at Pathé News, from 1916.

She offers some of the best snippets of advice, as well as linking to where the full transcript first appeared on the web, but you could probably skip the bit about sending a telegram to the editor once the negatives are shipped.

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#Podcast: Getting started in data journalism

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The ability to analyse and untangle datasets is a vital skill for journalists in the age of endless information, so this week’s podcast focuses on how to get started in data journalism.

Getting started in data journalism and getting further than the basics can seem like a mountain of programming tools and coding languages, but the experts we spoke to describe how to take the first steps.

• Paul Bradshaw, online journalist, lecturer and blogger, Help Me Investigate.com
• Marianne Bouchart, web producer and data journalism projects co-ordinator, Bloomberg News
• Nicola Hughes, data journalist, Dataminer UK, 2011/12 Knight-Mozilla fellow at the Guardian, soon to join The Times

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#Tip: Digital portfolio options for journalists

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There’s no hiding from the digital revolution and for years journalists have been building their own online portfolios. The results have been mixed, occasionally tragic, but developers cottoned on to many hacks’ lack of advanced programming skills long ago and the proliferation of available platforms has swamped the internet.

Thankfully, Poynter has just published a handy and detailed guide to some of the best, looking at features, archive size, backup options and more.

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#Podcast – Career advice for aspiring sports journalists

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This week’s podcast looks at sports journalism and gets expert advice on how to succeed.

Recommendations include the value of experience, getting the right training and other potential in-roads to this popular and competitive sector.

• Sean Ingle, sports editor, Guardian.co.uk
• Nick Powell, sports editor, Sky News
• James Toney, managing editor, Sportsbeat
• Keith Elliott, head of careers, Sports Journalists’ Association
• Jonny Lally, media officer, Leicester City FC

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Twitter contact management

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In this post on Media Helping Media, David Brewer runs through some advice on how to most effectively manage the contacts you’ve sourced within Twitter, from how to select key contacts to follow to keeping contacts organised such as by using lists.

See the full post.

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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – social media advice from Newsweek and The Daily Beast

The 10,000 Words blog has an interview with Brian Ries, social media editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Elana Zak asked him: “What are the must-have skills that someone aspiring to be a social media editor needs?”.

Ries shares his experience and advice.

The most important thing is to be aware of the various tools that are out there and to be able to apply them to the needs of the newsroom and maybe the company at large.

A lot of people get obsessed with the idea that social media editors are running the Twitter account or updating the Facebook page. And that is a large part of it, for sure, at some companies more than others. But it’s also about strategising and thinking how can I take the news product as it has always existed, whether it’s in print or on TV or online, and fracture it into a million little pieces and convert it into something that makes sense on these new platforms, these new tools, these new networks that are sprouting up.

The full Q&A is at this link.

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The Canadian Journalism Project has a guide on how to turn an internship into a journalism job. It has case studies from six journalists who share their advice.

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