This blog aims to be a handbook to help guide journalists and journalism students through the wide range of storytelling tools and newsgathering techniques that confront them, from writing for the web to using wikis; from Computer Assisted Reporting to building a personalised ‘news leads’ page; from when to use audio or video to ways of telling a story interactively.
It is both work-in-progress and a public document – if you want to contribute, or feel I’ve got it wrong somehow, or have examples to provide, please comment.
As for the author, I’m Paul Bradshaw, a Senior Lecturer in Online Journalism and Magazines at UCE Birmingham in the UK, where I teach on the Journalism degree and the Masters in Television and Interactive Content, as well as leading the degree in Web and New Media. My background is in both editorial and design, having edited Internet Monthly magazine (among other things), contributed to a few books, and managed the creation of the Education-Quest family of websites.
I blog elsewhere at The Online Journalism Blog and Citizen Journalism, among others, and still work as a freelance journalist and designer, and am available for children’s parties.
