A new platform to help freelance journalists aggregate their work will be launched on Thursday. Contently aims to help journalists to build their personal brand online and connect them with publishers looking for writers. The site was conceived by Shane Snow, a 2010 graduate of Columbia Journalism School and writer for Wired. He told CJR
ProPublica reporter gets the Treme treatment
A.C. Thompson’s reporting on transgressions by the New Orleans police force in the wake of Hurricane Katrina led to an article in The Nation, a reporter position at ProPublica, three convictions (one since overturned) for the police officers involved in the murder of a man named Henry Glover, and, starting September 23, a character… Powered
A timeline that isn't boring
Timelines are generally considered the lowest form of data visualization, because displaying data chronologically doesn’t tend to provide much journalist value. But The New York Times recently upended that theory with a timeline-cum-scattergraph of driving safety records. This timeline works because it’s not actually a timeline—rather than running in a linear fashion, years have been
The Ad Wars: How do we cover them?
With less than two months before Election Day, America’s airwaves are under full-scale bombardment. Voters in the crucial swing states that will decide control of the White House and Congress face a fusillade of mostly negative TV ads, not only from the Obama and Romney campaigns but from new outside organizations such as super PACs
Have at it
For years, Nik Kowsar managed to stay out of jail while building a reputation as Iran’s most infamous political cartoonist. Then, in early 2000, his luck ran out. He was arrested for publishing a cartoon that depicted a powerful ayatollah as a crocodile strangling a journalist with his tail. His arrest sparked protests by religious
