Data Journalism Handbook – free e-book!
Download the CUNY J-Tool Mobile App
CUNY J-School student Melissa Noel introduces the CUNY J-Tool, the Mobile App of the Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. When you’re out in the field reporting, CUNY J-School students, faculty and staff can search our databases, research guides and more using your remote logins. Download the free app today!
The Powerful Effects of Short Writing
The upcoming Poynter NewsU Webinar The Powerful Effects of Short Writing will be broadcast on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 2:00pm ET
Can’t attend the live Webinar? We’ll have an archived replay available soon after the live session. Watch it at any time.
Access it for FREE at one of the Research Center terminals.
The One Hour Webinar goes hand-in-hand with How to Write Short and Well where you’ll learn the techniques to write short effectively.
Course Instructor:
Roy Peter Clark is vice president and senior scholar at The Poynter Institute, where he has taught writing since 1979. He is the author of the book Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer and course on Poynter’s NewsU The Writer’s Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use, and the book The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English. His latest work includes the book Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces and companion course on Poynter’s NewsU, Help! for Writers. He also blogs and chats about writing tools on Poynter.org. You can follow him on Twitter at @RoyPeterClark.
Mango App on Android Now!
For all of those who asked, Mango is now available on Android (download it today!)
Learn about Storyful, Tomorrow @12:30 in the Newsroom
Claire Wardle from Storyful will be in our newsroom this Thursday April 19th from 12:30 to 1:30.
She’s going show you some tricks for incorporating social media into your reporting using the Storyful dashboard, a tool Storyful sells to media outlets and has given us for free. She’ll also talk about their new publishing tool, which we’ll be able to use soon.
Bring your lunch and talk about using these tools and techniques to your advantage in your reporting, internships, and capstone.
Spring Break Hours at the Research Center
The Research Center will operate on a regular schedule for Spring Break.
Our regular hours will be in effect — please check our Hours and Schedules page for further details:
60 Sites and Databases for Journalists – Tuesday (TOMORROW) 3/27 @ 1230 PM (RM308)
Come see Gary Price, co-founder of INFODocket , Full Text Reports show us the top sites and tools for journalists, including the latest additions by Google and some real-time monitoring and mobile tools: http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/brown-bag-speaker-60-sites-and-databases-for-journalists/
How to Find Experts and Contacts with Leadership Directories – Tomorrow 3/15 @ 5PM
This Thursday March 15, 2012 at 5 pm in room 308 — All faculty, staff and students are welcome to learn how to use Leadership Directories Database to search for contact information for the leaders of major US government, municipal, business, professional, educational, media and nonprofit organizations.
Pizza will be served.
No Access to CUNY Library Catalog and Remote Databases from Fri 1/20 – Sun 1/22
Please schedule your work around this planned outage:
The CUNY library catalog and remote access to online databases will be unavailable from Fri., 1/20/12, 7:00 am until Sun., 1/22/12 approx. 12:00 pm due to system maintenance.
You should still be able to access our databases on campus, but not the library catalog.
Barb Gray
Interim Chief Librarian
CUNY J-School
