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1. News Doesn't Pay. Now What?
2. Storytelling approaches: The lines between Stills | Video | Interactivity
4. What We Learned Reporting at Occupy
6. Beyond SOPA: Critical Policy Debates Shaping the Future of News
7. IdeaJamming: The Future of Computational Journalism - An Interactive BrainGame
10. Intelligent Programming in the Digital Space
11. Big things with small budgets and audiences: Social media by and for local news organizations
12. Online commenting is broken - let's fix it!
15. Keeping up with technology: Learning to learn
16. SoundCloud
18. Are online comments worth the hassle?
19. Explaining the World Through Song
20. Journopreneurs. Don't hate, join!
23. DEBATE: The newsroom and the responsibilities of Citizen Journalism
24. Bridging the Digital Divide
25. Online news startups: Where are the women?
26. Digital Killed the TV Star
27. Activating Your Audience with Illustrated Journalism
30. Social media skepticism from social media professionals
31. Surviving your employer's (or client's) social-media policy
32. New directions in visual storytelling
33. How To Mojo
34. Telling Stories with Twitter
35. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em - Making high-profile media partnerships win
36. Building multimedia audience
37. Math & Science for Journalists
38. What it takes to start a hyperlocal newssite
39. Bringing Social to Broadcast
40. The World is Watching: Netizens Around the World
42. The Membership Model: Creating a Membership Experience for News Audiences
44. The Tablet Touch: Best Practices in Tablet News App Design, Development and Operation
45. React & Adapt: The New Newsroom Strategy
46. You Have One Minute: Behind the scenes of Web hit "Who Knew"
48. Virtual collaboration: working in networked newsrooms
49. One Story, One Bazillion Platforms
50. Making the Leap
51. We're All Friends Here, Right?
52. Seriously, When Are We All Just Going to Get Along?
54. Breaking News and Social Media 2.0
56. Election Confection: sweet and easy tools and tips for covering the vote
58. Data viz made accessible: Best tools for the job
59. Developers as Storytellers
60. Online and Under Arrest: Threats to Digital Journalists Covering Conflict
62. R for Exploration and Presentation
63. Democratizing data inside the newsroom
64. Election 2012 and the fight for the internet
65. Breaking news with social media: When to go where
67. Let's Make Mistakes, Just This Once
68. New Visual Storytelling UX/UI
69. Die, Exclusivity: The Age of Collaboration
70. Emerging Women Leaders & Emerging Technology
71. Storytelling across platforms: Integrating TV, desktop, devices, social and more
72. The triumphs and trials of designing interactive content
73. Enterprise Journalism in the Social Media Age
74. Redesigning Social Media Distribution Systems for Larger-Scale Networks
75. #wjchat @ ONA12 - All Q's, All As Welcomed
76. Going beyond engagement to actively grow your social presence
77. In it for the Lawlz: How humor and silliness can help your news website
78. How to Attract Women, aka Ten Easy, Guaranteed Ways To Get More Female Bylines On Your Site
79. Managing the online newsroom
80. Is having a life compatible with being a digital-first journalist?
83. The Future of Interactive Charts and Graphs
84. When Did Data Get So Sexy?
85. Assigning targets in monetary terms or more traditional web metrics?
86. How to become "internet famous" and other insights on memes and how they relate to journalism
87. How to talk to programmers
88. Nonprofit News Business Plans
89. Talking Truth: Sourcing in the Post Politifact Age
90. If you want to save journalism, you have to save advertising
92. How Do You Decide What To Build?
93. Using new tools to get new voices in your coverage
94. DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE MEDIA AT BALKAN REGION
95. Lessons Learned from Social Reader
96. Gate keepers, gate crashers: Women in digital media
98. Better ways to measure journalism
99. The first Latino Internet Boom
100. New Revenue Generating Strategies
101. Pinterest, Instagram, Google+... How newsrooms can keep up without going crazy
102. Playing by different rules: Keeping a small staff in the big game
103. Social Media and the 2012 Presidential Election
104. Show us yours and we'll show you ours
105. How to Finance Meaningful Journalism
106. How to scale social media across teams, newsrooms and entire organizations
107. Reinventing the crime beat for the digital age
108. "Hyperlocal scale" is not an oxymoron
109. WORKSHOP: The art of the tweet: 10 tips for crafting engaging Twitter updates
111. Data journalism as an act of product development
112. The Art of Live Reporting: How To Tell A Story In Real Time
113. Measuring Impact and Defining Success
114. Save your newsroom with less than $10k
115. Video on the Fast Track: A practical workshop
116. Tools, Tips and Strategies for Online Corrections and Combating Misinformation
117. Practical Document Mining
118. Cinematic Journalism
119. Evolution of Women's Sports Coverage
120. #
121. Labels, Sources, and Disclosure
122. Reaping the benefits of social media: A practical training plan for your newsroom
123. The Business of Freelancing
124. The community is your newsroom: Where engagement meets editorial integrity
125. An ethical guide to using new digital tools for journalism
126. Google analytics for site operators
127. Workflow: How to keep up with it all
128. From Babble to Dialogue: Giving millions their say in an election year
129. Beyond the Screen: How online news startups use offline strategies to grow local audiences
130. Transparency in Action: Pinpointing Influence of Money in State Politics
131. Aggregation, Curation & the Filter Economy
132. One size fits all: Creating content for responsive sites
133. Data Journalism for Beginners
134. What to Believe? Challenges & Opportunities Created by the Internet & Digital Media
135. Games For Good
136. Using Social Media for Real-Time and Investigative Reporting
137. Serving mobile users: One size doesn't fit all
139. How to find a technical co-founder?
140. PBS News Hour Reporting Labs Build Informed, Engaged Digital Citizens
141. DEBATE: Is social media the new front line?
142. I've made a huge mistake: Lessons in engaging your community of readers
143. Newsroom convergence is not all it's cracked up to be: technical & cultural lessons learned
144. Finding value in newsroom plasma screen communication
145. How two free data tools will change your storytelling forever
146. #NOFILTER: How social photography is changing news and journalism
148. SOCIAL MEDIA DEBATE: Best practices vs. bad habits
149. Time-Saver or Time-Suck: Partnering with Journalism Schools
152. Preparing your Online Journalism Awards Entries
154. Writing for mobile
155. Lights... Camera... Click! How televised election coverage is going online
156. Time Out! Lessons From A Commenting Shutdown
157. From Print to Online Video: A Newsroom Transformation
158. Let's Get Married! Are we Engaged Yet?
159. Getting the community to engage with your content: what flops and what flies?
160. Seven Habits of Highly Effective Media Entrepreneurs
162. Be More Than a Twitter Monkey: Leveraging Social Media Skills to Grow Your Career
163. Basic online security for journalists - and why it matters
164. Global crossover: reaching out to complex societies and audiences
165. Niche media, soecialized news and the social space
166. Consider the Source: Following the Money in the Post-Citizens United Landscape
167. Campaigning journalism from behind a paywall: The story of Cities safe for Cycling
168. Is There a Place for Games in Journalism?
169. 10 top tips on how to make great interactive and data vis content
170. Shifting Focus: Turning your traditional print newsroom into an online video network
171. Human-Centered News: The Next Evolution
172. What Journalists Can Learn from Transmedia Documentary Projects
173. Streams and Beyond
174. Sensor Networks for Data Journalism
175. Fair Use; Journalists' Friend or Foe?
177. Making interactive storytelling open: democratizing data journalism with the Miso project
179. Arts Journalism Online -- The Future
180. Fill Out This Form: Digital tools and outreach tactics to diversify your sources
181. Meet NPR's Personas
182. Im gonna launch my startup, no matter what! (Crash course for aspiring entrepreneurs)
183. The Story on Storify: How to get great results in the classroom and the newsroom - and beyond
184. Reductive Design
185. Solutions Journalism
186. 5 dirt-cheap tools to turbo-charge your reporting
187. A Transmedia Approach to News
188. Templating interactives: Building a reusable framework
189. Journey into "the business side"
190. Freedom of Information Act and Newsgathering
191. From the classroom to the newsroom: Learning from J-School hyperlocals
192. Visualizing and analyzing map data using Open Source Tools
193. DO JOURNALISTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
194. We have iPhones, do we need journalists as well?
195. Editorial Programming for a Mobile Audience versus a Web Audience
196. Copyright: The line between "Yours" | "Mine" | "Everyones"
197. Computer-assisted reporting on the beat
198. DEBATE: Ethics and standards in UGC and Citizen Journalism
200. Viz it! Routinely visualizing local data for community engagement
201. The Emancipation Proclamation of CMS Slavery
202. Mobilizing masses: What journalists can learn from the SOPA call to action.
203. How trolls make journalism smarter: Adventures in open journalism
204. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paywall
205. Different media, different needs
206. From big to small: covering Occupy Oakland on rhe ground
207. Killing the Newspaper Mind
208. Elections 2012: A precisely, calibrated plan
209. Fishing Offshore - How to Catch the Big Story Far From Home
210. Who cares about data anyway?
211. Collaborative Fundraising, Really? Really!
212. Taming spreadsheets
214. Data in Motion - Turning Your Numbers into a Video Visualization
215. Social Media Strategy: Beyond the Basics
216. Transparency Apps
218. Photographers & Cameras: The line between Professional | Amateur
219. msnNOW
220. The Myth of the Backpack Journalist
221. Why are so many news sites ugly, cluttered and hard to consume?
222. Leading cultural change from above - and below
223. How to avoid self-fulfilling prophecies when promoting Content
224. Beyond Journalism: Journalist as Facilitator
226. Bad Charts and How to Avoid Them
228. Why News Organizations are becoming Tech Startups
229. Ethics on Twitter: Navigating the Challenges
230. Is Curation the missing stack of the News-as-Data-Platform Model?