From the beginning of March I will be working and traveling in South Africa. My homebase will be Groblersdal, a town 2 hours north of Pretoria. It’s the town nearby Ndlovu carecentre, the place where my girlfriend is working.
Right now I am quite busy preparing myself for the trip to South Africa. While reading some [...]
Nederlandse krantenwebsites zullen niet snel hun content gratis weggeven en door andere sites laten gebruiken. Sterker nog, ze klagen je er voor aan. Doodzonde, vindt Chris Thorpe van de Britse krant The Guardian. Hij is van mening dat je je informatie niet achter slot en grendel moet houden als je je verhaal aan het grote [...]
Why I love the new journalism? The answer is simple. Because everything is possible! Every single thing!
We are currently in a time of change. The web is making things possible, which before people only could dream of. And in the same time professional equipment is getting cheaper and easier to understand.
Everyone that is thinking clear, knows the printed press will disappear. Investors take out their money and readers get rid of their over-priced subscription.
Newspapers seem to work in an old fashion way. They employ 200 journalists, working day and night, but in the end producing less than a well organized web news organisation with 20 [...]
Last week Hearst Corporation announced that it has two options for The San Francisco Chronicle: Close or sell. Yes CLOSE or SELL.
The company just wants to get rid of the newspaper. Why? Because they lose money. A lot of money. Last year: 50 million dollar!
Yesterday another newspaper died. The Rocky Mountain News printed it last [...]
This is a beautiful example of visual storytelling. Jonathan Jarvis made a 11 minute animation explaining the credit crisis, which supply all the information on would need to understand the current situation.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. ( Via Kosmopolito )
There are all these beautiful ways of building your story. Most common thing is to write in a circle. Starting with someone’s experience as an example, provide the facts and end up with the same person again.
But last week I got the best tip ever on ending your article: Just stop!
Most stories don’t need epic [...]
This is the pacifier tree in Århus. It must bee the weirdest thing I ever seen.
Two small trees filled with colourful pacifiers. The kids hang their pacifiers in the three when they are at kindergarten (3 years old). It is a ritual which symbolize the step from babyhood to childhood – and the first step [...]
Yes, but not when somebody has a locked account. That would be my only consideration as a journalist.
If someone sends out a tweet, it’s public, which means you can use it in an article. I was agreed on this by some journalists, and Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Minister. He added that he would [...]
Thomas Wiese is a typical Danish pig farmer who’s living 25 kilometers southwest of Aarhus. With a stable of roughly 3.500 pigs and a yearly turnaround of 14.500 animals, he owns a big farm for Danish standards.
(Video is shot with a Kodak Zi6 Pocket video Camera)