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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:02 AM

Drenched But Not Defeated

Two weeks ago News Gems applauded the work of The Des Moines Register as it covered the tornados that pummeled the Midwest. Today I want to give a special shout out to their fellow Iowans at The Cedar Rapids Gazette who are still putting out
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Monday, June 23, 2008 6:57 AM

Detainees

Two stories in the past week have taken us deep inside the war against terrorism to show us the people, places and techniques that the U.S. government has tried to keep hidden. In Sunday's New York Times, "Inside a 9/11 Mastermind's Interrogation" by
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:18 AM

Tales of the Tornado

The Des Moines Register is doing an amazing job of using maps, stories, photos, videos and blogs to cover the storms that have hammered Iowa. Take for example its "Parkersburg Tornado: The Aftermath" package, which allows viewers to scan a map
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:37 AM

College Life

Earlier this week News Gems featured a great investigation by students at Humboldt State University. Today I want to highlight one of the most exciting multimedia projects I've seen, which was created by students at Northwestern University. Developed
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:43 AM

Weaving a Story on the Web

"A Clearwater Girl Is Burned, Not Broken," by John Barry of the St. Petersburg Times, is a fine example of a Web package that combines pictures, text and audio to tell a moving story. When you open the story, your eyes are drawn to a photo of a scarred,
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Friday, April 25, 2008 8:00 AM

Behind Bars

Talk about a tough job -- how about working as the IT guy in San Quentin? In "California Prison Reform: Inmates, I.T. and Health Care," Kim S. Nash of CIO Magazine explores the challenges faced by information technology workers as they try to improve
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:00 AM

Ouch!

For some excellent investigative work on consumer and worker safety, check out The Sacramento Bee's "Nail Gun Safety under Fire as Injuries Soar" by Andrew McIntosh. His stories describe how nail gun accidents are sending 42,000 people
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:00 AM

The Hunger

The war in Iraq, the presidential campaign and the slumping economy have been the big stories so far this year, but they may soon be eclipsed by one with a more devastating impact: a worldwide hunger crisis. Marc Lacey of The New York Times
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:30 AM

Back to Mexico

The Record in Stockton, Calif., proves that you don't need to be a big newspaper to put together lively Web packages. "And a Song Shall Carry Them Home" by reporter Jennifer Torres and photographer Victor Blue follows three musician brothers as they return
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Monday, April 07, 2008 8:30 AM

Autism Alert

CNN and its partners at Time and Parenting magazines have put together an impressive package on autism. "Autism: Unravelling the Mystery" features more than two dozen print stories and videos along with an audio slideshow. Some of the highlights
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Friday, April 04, 2008 8:00 AM

Winning Pictures

The National Press Photographers Association has finished its 2008 competition, and the winners show us the best of photojournalism on the Web. John Moore of Getty Images captured first place in the still photo category for a portfolio showing the causes
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Monday, March 24, 2008 8:30 AM

Five Years of War

To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Reuters and Media Storm collaborated to create the powerful "Bearing Witness." The Web package combines brilliant photographs of the fighting and everyday Iraqi life, video interviews with some
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:05 PM

Reporting from Dangerous Places

No matter what you think of the controversial John McCain lobbying story of Feb. 21, this weekend The New York Times shows why it remains our most indispensable newspaper. The simple reason: it regularly sends writers to places where few reporters
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Monday, February 25, 2008 8:30 AM

Accidents Can Happen

The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, La., offers us a good example of how small and mid-sized newspapers can create compelling multimedia stories. "Megan's Journey" uses text, photos and sound to show us how troubled 17-year-old Megan Theriot
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:05 AM

Tossing the Evidence

Ohio's police and courts routinely lose or throw away DNA evidence, The Columbus Dispatch discovered during a yearlong investigation. For their "Test of Convictions" series, reporters Geoff Dutton and Mike Wagner reviewed 313 cases and
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