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By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern
When Diane Alverio first came across the 2013 McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneur Initiative online, she and her team decided to apply on a whim.
“We felt good about the product and felt that we had something new to add to the media,” said Alverio after stumbling across the grant opportunity.
Alverio, a seasoned journalist and president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in the early 1990s, founded her news project, the Latino News Network.
The Latino News Network is a nine-month-old English language news site based in Connecticut that focuses on Latinos and Latino issues in Southern New England. She was inspired to start this project due to the lack of well-rounded media coverage of the Latino community.
“Clearly there was a need for quality coverage of Latino issues here in Connecticut as there is elsewhere,” Alverio said.
“It [mainstream media] offers only a thin slice of who we are as a people, and unfortunately, way too often it’s the negative side.”
The Latino News Network, which won $14,000 from McCormick’s New Media Women Entrepreneur Initiative, hopes to use the grant expand.
“Hopefully in the next couple of months we will move into Massachusetts and Rhode Island,” she said.
“It will be based in Connecticut and be an online site.”
While Alverio has strong roots in journalism, building the Latino News Network was took months of planning.
“You really need a multitude of skills because obviously good strong writing is important, but you have to be able to market your site to draw readers to it,” she said. “When you’re creating a new infrastructure from scratch, you want to be sure that you understand the editorial side and the sales piece.”
Above all else, Alverio notes that you need to develop a strong foundation of individuals that you are working with who are passionate about your project.
“You have to have a passion for it and really believe in it, especially in the beginning because it takes a great deal of time to get it off the ground,” she said.
“You can’t do it by yourself.”
Editor’s note: Click here to read NABJDigital profiles of past McCormick winners Retha Hill and Michelle Ferrier.
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By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/eNewsletters editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
I’ve been using my iPad for more and more work-related tasks, thanks to some great apps and the device’s portability. The one negative factor is trying to type stories using the glass keyboard. I’m just no good at it.
I went on eBay and bought a cheap keyboard that connected to the iPad via Bluetooth. It worked for a while, then became quite buggy and unreliable. That left me with lugging my MacBook Pro or taking my Gateway Netbook.
But after attending several journalism-related events where I saw folks with cool keyboards attached to their iPads, I decided it was time to take another look at what’s out there — and spend some money.
So I did what I usually do — I crowdsourced my question about what folks thought were the best iPad keyboards on the market. I considered the Logitech Ultrathin, ZAGGFolio, ClamCase Pro and the Belkin Folio.
But all bets were off once I saw the Brydge, which was born from a Kickstarter campaign. As a MacBook Pro user, I love the way this keyboard simulates that experience. the clips allow you to adjust your iPad by 180 degrees.
The Brydge has a built-in speaker that really enhances the sound from your iPad. It comes in Mac silver, but I bought the black polycarbonate version because I thought it looked cooler.
The speakerless aluminum Brydge costs $169.99; with speakers, it’s $199.99. My black version, with speakers, is $129.99 — and worth every penny.
By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern
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By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern
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By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism recently shared its State of the New Media 2013: An Annual Report on American Journalism. In the report, Pew noted several digital developments and trends as they relate to news, especially within the digital media landscape from 2012. Here are some of the data.
Compared to other media platforms like magazines, newspapers and television, online news was the only media platform to show growth in the survey.
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Most mobile news users are not replacing one platform with another; they are consuming more news than they had in the past. More than half of tablet news users, 54%, say they also get news on a smartphone; 77% also get news on a desktop or laptop computer; 50% get news in print and a quarter get news on all four, according to a 2012 study by Pew Research Center and the Economist Group.
In addition, 31 percent of tablet users note that they are consuming more news via their mobile devices. Furthermore, 43 percent said their tablet devices are helping to increase the percentage of news that they consume. Almost three quarters, 64 percent, of smartphone users get their news on laptops or desktops and a little over a quarter, 37 percent, of those users get their news from a tablet.
Social media, which is believed to be fueled by the increase in mobile devices, has also lead U.S. adults to a deeper consumption of news. Pew studies show that around 47 percent of smartphone users get their news through a social network, and 39 percent of tablet users did as well.
There was also growth in the number of newspapers migrating to paid digital content, according to Pew. In the last year, 450 of the 1,380 of the newspaper dailies have started or shared plans for a paid content subscription or pay wall plan, which usually gives readers a certain number of free articles before forcing users to pay.
You can read more about the digital developments in American journalism here and visit www.stateofthemedia.org for more information on other media platforms. And please take our poll, below.
By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern
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By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force Intern
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