The Online Journalism Blog has put up an interesting series. It’s entitled BASIC principals for online journalism and it covers every aspect a journalist should know for the online realm.
Here’s an excerpt:
It shouldn’t have to be said that the web is different, but I’ll say it anyway: the web is different. It is not print, it is not television, it is not radio.
So why write content for the web in the same way that you might write for a newspaper or a news broadcast?
Organizations used to do this, and some still do. It was called ‘shovelware’, a process by which content created for another medium (generally print) was ‘shovelled’ onto the web with nary a care for whether that was appropriate or not.
It was not.
Paul Bradshaw does an excellent job outlining what should be done and why. Give it a read. Now.
