StoryMaker: connect with the crowd for better journalism

2025-01-12T17:59:19+00:00April 16th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

Per StoryMaker tutti hanno la capacità di partecipare alla creazione di un giornalismo di qualità. Gli utenti sparsi in tutto il mondo della nostra app, utilizzabile in più di sei di lingue, già producono news di buon livello. Partecipate alla nostra presentazione per scoprire i risultati raggiunti.

Stiamo per presentare il nuovo StoryMaker Assignment Desk che vi permetterà di connettervi con i nostri utenti, il vostro staff e il pubblico per produrre storie di buon livello. Per questo motivo vogliamo sapere quali sono, secondo voi, le carenze del mobile, per poter produrre insieme un giornalismo migliore.

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2018-03-27T09:30:01+00:00August 1st, 2012|Tags: , , , |

smallworldnews:

Small World News is excited to announce that we are designing a yet to be named android app. The app will support citizen journalists and professionals alike in the production of multimedia news packages.

Specifically, this open source app enables existing and aspiring journalists all over the world to produce and publish professional-grade news with their Android phone, as safely and securely as possible. It provides an interactive training guide, walkthroughs, and templates for users to follow as they plan their piece and capture media. The app then helps assemble the content into a finished format, with cuts and basic graphics.

Our long time colleagues at the Guardian Project will be handling the development work for the app. They’re one of the best android development organizations out there and we should know. We’ve been testing out their »

Alive in Egypt: Eight Days Later

2011-02-08T21:01:04+00:00February 8th, 2011|Tags: , , |

For the last twelve days I’ve been just like everyone else on the internet, glued to the news unfolding in Egypt. The entire Small World News team has been asking each other just what we might be able to do to help the people of Egypt. A few phone calls and constant Skype chatter lead to a lot of good possibilities, but nothing concrete enough to take action on. Until last Sunday, when Brian really came up with something great after seeing the new blog post from Google about their Speak2Tweet service.

Speak2Tweet is a really simple service that allowed anyone in Egypt to call a phone number via the still functional phone system and record a voicemail that would then be posted to the SayNow service as an mp3. This went around the internet being shut down in Egypt and provided »

Inside Baghdad, via South Philly

2025-01-12T19:30:33+00:00October 25th, 2007|Tags: , , , |

Inside Baghdad, via South Philly

By Daniel Rubin
Inquirer Columnist

A couple of days ago, when tensions with Turkey and promises to rein in private contractors filled the headlines from Iraq, Brian Conley was on the phone to his correspondent, wondering how that piece on nightlife in Baghdad was going.From his crowded office in a South Philadelphia rowhouse, the editor of Small World News probed cub reporter Omar Abdullah, a 23-year-old Palestinian Iraqi who had learned English from Metallica songs.

“In the ’70s, it was a very Western place,” Conley says of the Iraqi capital. “Now most of the liquor stores have been bombed or closed by threats.”

Not surprisingly, Abdullah was having trouble getting good footage of the club scene.

Real life itself is what Conley and colleague Steven Wyshywaniuk are going for each week for their Web-based Alive in Baghdad reports.

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