Course Overview
- Title:
- How Location-Based Services are Changing the News
- Type:
- Webinar
- Cost:
- $27.95
- Originally Broadcast On:
- April 01, 2010
- Time Estimate:
- One hour
This Webinar is free for members of ONA. For registration instructions and the ONA member promotion code, visit the Discounts page.
About Webinars
In this virtual classroom, participants can join in a seminar led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty. This screencast includes live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.
- This Webinar was originally broadcast on:
- April 01, 2010 Enroll Now
- Watch and listen to the original one-hour Webinar in its entirety. This Webinar recording features the full presentation led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty including Q&A from the audience and resources from the presenter.
The emerging world of location-based services, from social networks to thousands of mobile and Web services that leverage a user's location, are helping news organizations serve their customers better and helping cutting-edge reporters succeed. See how this new platform of social media networks, games and other services can be a valuable reporting tool.
What Will I Learn:
- How location-based services are being used in the news today
- What the future of location as a platform for news technology development looks like
- About free and low-cost Web services that can perform lightweight computer-assisted reporting through mining various social signals online, including location data
Who Should Take this Course:
Reporters, producers and other online journalists who are looking for ways to use location-based data to provide context to their audience and mine data about these users.
Course Instructor:
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Marshall Kirkpatrick is the lead writer at ReadWriteWeb, one of the top technology news blogs on the Internet and syndicated daily online by The New York Times. Kirkpatrick has established himself as one of the Web's leading voices on bleeding-edge technology, primarily through the use of innovative online research systems built for crowdsourced data mining and first-mover's advantage. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two dogs, two cats and three chickens.
Training Partners:
ONAvation Webinar Series
The ONAvation series, a partnership between the Online News Association and Poynter's News University, has been created to focus on applying cutting-edge technology to journalism.
Online News Association
The Online News Association is the world's largest association of online journalists, with more than 1,700 members. ONA's mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among journalists to better serve the public.
Technical Requirements:
This Webinar contains audio. Please make sure you've got your headphones and speakers adjusted.
For the best experience, we suggest that:
- PC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
- Mac users use Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox or Safari
- You set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher
- You use a high-speed connection
Questions? Read our Webinar FAQ or contact us at webinars@newsu.org.