Advanced News Editing

Brave New World stuff

• The CRAYON project at Bucknell (CReAte Your Own Newspaper)
• Editor & Publisher's electronic media siteIncludes several regular, highly topical columns on electronic publishing:
  • Stop the Presses Steve Outing's column
  • Infobytes Jodi Cohen's column
• How Digital Ink was created By Mindy McAdams, who helped create it
• A research agenda for e-papers From the Cox Institute for Newspaper Management Studies

Writing, editing and design issues

• Readying Publications for the Web By Mindy McAdams. Discusses readability, links and hypertext editing.
• Alertbox Software engineer Jakob Nielsen's excellent monthly column about web issues. Examples are:
  
  • Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
  • Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace
  • A short column on site design.
• A site devoted to typography raises some questions about type online.
• Writing Journalism On-line By Chip Scanlan of Poynter (wasn't on new Poynter site last I checked).

How-to information

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• A more advanced HTML design reference
• A site created by Professor Stuart Moulthrop at the University of Baltimore School of Communication Design that includes links to useful design reference information and a color index.
• How to create effective web sites
• A compendium of HTML elements
• How Do They Do That With HTML?

A few online media links

• The Philadelphia Inquirer A sentimental favorite. An easy-to-navigate site with sections and story summaries linked to full text. Ads appear between story blurbs.
• The Los Angeles Times Compared with The Inquirer site, this is a very different approach to "front page" design.
• The Detroit News Another different approach. This is a web paper that thinks it's still a news "paper"
• The Boston Globe's Online site Offers access to several media organizations
• CNN Interactive A "print/multimedia" version of CNN
• The San Jose Mercury News An "old-timer" in online
• The Roseburg News-Review's web site Created by James Sinks, a J School grad
• The Corvallis Gazette-TimesRecently reorganized. No longer offers the daily paper.
• The Emerald's online edition

Some grammar and usage information

• If you look here, you'll be sorry
• The Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
• The On-Line Handbook of the Illinois Writers' Workshop
• Common usage problems (from the Illinois Writers' Workshop)

A few links to information about copyediting

• A Poynter seminar for copyeditors
• Headlines and creativity
• Issues in copy desk reorganization
• Surviving pagination