New report: What works in community news startups

The Institute for Interactive Journalism has released its report on 5 years' worth of study on community news startups. Link is here, and along with other journalism links on this blog.

Campus Coverage, from Investigative Reporters and Editors

For those who cannot get to Phoenix for the three-day seminar, here's the website with some overall resources.

Download your FREE accuracy checklist, courtesy of Regret The Error

Though this is designed for writers and reporters, editors can benefit from a checklist, too. You can download the checklist for your own use.

Yahoo has a style guide, too

Yahoo has released its own style guide. While you can buy it, there also are some helpful things at the website.

For college students: Computer-Assisted Reporting from Investigative Reporters & Editors

Here's a chance to work with the best and brightest from IRE and learn valuable research/reporting/investigative techniques. Act now; deadline to apply is Sept. 27, 2010.

This is NOT change for change's sake

Here's an item about a statistic that was changed in a news article.
The pertinent info:

Blacks make up only 6 percent of the population in California, but unlike two larger minority groups in the state where opinions on the measure are also split — Asians and Latinos — their “participation in elections is on par with their populations,” according to the California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit group here.

The story now says:

Blacks make up less than 10 percent of the population in California, but unlike two larger minority groups in the state where opinions on the measure are also split — Asians and Latinos — their “participation in elections is on par with their populations,” according to the California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit group here.

How much tech teaching is too much in journalism school?

This columnist asserts that a lot of the basics are being set aside for lessons in using the latest gadgetry.

FREE webinar: Develop business angle on any beat

It's always the economy, stupid. And future journalists - reporters and editors alike - can benefit from understanding business. BusinessJournalism.org is holding a free webinar on developing business angles on any beat, Sept. 14. Though our class meets during the first session, there is another at 4 p.m. that day.