Dig into online journalism

Want to dig deeper into online journalism? Here are some ideas.

• A recent post on the 10,000 Words blog outlined five ways to “get involved with the online journalism community today.” Two of them I’ve mentioned in a previous e-mail:  the regularly scheduled #wjchat on Twitter and the online chats at Poynter.org.
  Another of the suggestions on the blog is to take part in the Carnival of Journalism, an online community of journalism bloggers dedicated to sharing ideas on a specified topic each month. January’s topic was about how to make universities hubs of information in communities, and February’s topic was about how to increase the number of news sources.

• Check out last year’s winners of the Online Journalism Awards. One of them was NYTRMG’s own  Sarasota Herald-Tribune’s Flipping Fraud project, which was the focus of a session in the HR conference room last year. But there are plenty of others to look at and learn from, including the Tennessean’s coverage of last spring’s Nashville floods and a VoiceofSanDiego.org special report on education.