OJR: The Online Journalism Review

July 12, 2006

Back, with a new look and new archives

  • OJR now offers quick links to old stories, organized by topic. Plus, we'd like to know what training help you or your newsroom need.

    • By Robert Niles
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    We're back from the Independence Day holiday with a (slightly) new look and a new archive feature.

    The new look allows OJR to use the full screen width and increases the visibility of our sidebar content. On that right sidebar, you might notice that we have links to previous OJR articles, organized by topic.

    We're using an internal metadata tagging system to build that archive index. The topics with the most stories will be listed at the top of the index. The index should make finding older articles easier, and help you see at a glance some of the more popular topics we've covered.

    I should note that we're not finished with the task of assigning tags to all of our old stories yet, so the index is not complete. But we should have that job complete by the end of the month. We'll also be fixing us the search box to return stories tagged with your search term at the top of the results list.

    Training survey


    Our friends over at the Knight New Media Center at USC would like to know what training help online journalists need.

    The folks at the center need to hear from those in the field what kind of training is most needed at all levels for multimedia journalists and online reporters. I hope that you'll take a moment to complete their online survey.

    That's all for today. We'll be back later in the week with a look at an interesting student reporting project involving students here at USC, as well as at Berkeley, Northwestern and Columbia. It's called "News21" and Steve Bryant will have the feature on it.

    Thanks, again, for reading OJR and, as always, your comments are welcome.

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    From Barry Parr on July 24, 2006 at 9:40 AM

    I like the new, "bloggier" look of OJR. It feels fresher. No more attempting to mimic a magazine.

    After a couple of years of publishing news in a blog format, I've come to appreciate the power of the simple blog design, and reverse chronological order, as a way of presenting news. I've gone from feeling like I have to apologize for looking like a blog to feeling that its the right design for my goals.

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