March 22, 2006
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This week: Raleigh gives Katrina coverage new twist ... The "perfect' news site? ... Hard-hitting multimedia in San Jose ... Cross-training for cross platforms ... Nine suggestions for more audience participation ... In case you missed it.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR TO ATTEND THESE UPCOMING APME EVENTS

■ Oct. 31-Nov. 1: NewsTrain, Milwaukee.

■ Dec. 5-6: NewsTrain, Springfield, Ill.

SAVE THE DATE: APME/APPM meeting with SND Las Vegas Sept. 8-11, 2008


RALEIGH GIVES KATRINA COVERAGE NEW TWIST
To mark the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the News & Observer in Raleigh took an offbeat approach: dispatching a photographer and videographer – but no reporter – to the Gulf Coast, and letting editors in Biloxi and New Orleans write the stories that anchored print coverage. The result is an enlightening print and online package.

Read Mark Briggs' full report at www.apme.com/news/2006/032206onlinecontent.shtml.

THE 'PERFECT' NEWS SITE?
What do you get when you cross Google News, the wire, RSS, Digg, Amazon.com-like social recommendations and a blog platform? Mark Briggs dives into Newsvine, which at least one blogger is calling the "perfect news site."

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HARD-HITTING MULTIMEDA IN SAN JOSE
The San Jose Mercury News recently published a comprehensive package by Pulitzer-winner Fredric Tulsky that found questionable conduct mars more than a third of all criminal cases and in the worst examples, defendants are wrongly convicted. The package includes a wealth of multimedia. Of particular note is a section called "Four Lived Ruined" that contains audio, video, graphics and photos that quickly tell the story of people wrongfully convicted.

Click here for more details.

CROSS-TRAINING FOR CROSS PLATFORMS
"The Making of a Marine Officer," part of an award-winning package from the Marine Corps Times, was produced by a photographer who has embraced video. About half of the Marine Corps Times photographers are trained to shoot video.

Click here for details on the project and the Times multimedia mindset.

NINE SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
J-Lab is listing cool audience participation projects from various news organizations to help spur innovation at others. There are nine on the site so far, but surely more to come. If you have succeeded in bringing content into the content creation process, contact Jan Schafer at jans@j-lab.org so she can add your project to the site.

Click here for more details.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT ...
Mark Briggs of the Tacoma News Tribune offers quick hits on the nation's best newspaper blogs, a rundown on the Digital Edge awards recognizing the best in newspaper web work  and details on the relaunch of Morph.

Click here for the details.

ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GREAT WORK
Have you seen – or produced – a great project lately that may warrant coverage in APME Update? Drop Mark Briggs a note at mark.briggs@thenewstribune.com.

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