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The lede After all the news and in-depth explainers of it, followed by the “What’s Nexts” for him and her and them, it’s now time for the round of media introspectives. “The Resistance Media Weren’t Ready for This,” measures The Atlantic: “After years of accruing followers, retweets, and Patreon donations with fevered speculation about the Mueller probe, they […]
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association announced its Gold Crown winners this week with 18 of 24 winners in online media categories coming from the SNO community. The SNO winners are: In Digital News: Pathfinder, Parkway West High School (Ballwin, MO) Southwest Shadow, Southwest Career and Technical Academy (Las Vegas, NV) The Red Ledger, Lovejoy High School (Lucas, […]
The lede True story: Less than a week after the deadliest mass shooting in New Zealand’s history, its government not only put into motion but passed, effective immediately, a ban on military-style assault weapons which includes a buy-back program and eliminating the license that enables the sale of the weapons: CNN. (All this and time for the victims’ […]
SNO sites come completely mobile responsive out of the box, always have and always will, so you’re basically all set. But depending on the size of your mobile audience, which you should assume is bigger than you imagine but that you can know for sure by studying your analytics, you may want to focus more attention […]
A summary of journalism news and pop culture brought to you by The lede On the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” a lot was written. From The New York Times, a well-organized cheatsheet that’d get you into USC. … “In the back of his head, he couldn’t help but wonder if […]
A summary of journalism news and pop culture brought to you by The lede Like something out of Dolores Umbridge’s desk in Harry Potter, “Some individuals have a colored ‘X’ over their photo, indicating whether they were arrested, interviewed, or had their visa or SENTRI pass revoked by officials,” NBC 7 San Diego described from its investigation […]
You know how on cop shows the detectives always show the crime scene photos to the person they believe to be the perp to see if it triggers a reaction? Below, we’re going to show you a bunch of images of things that are wrong when formatting stories on your news site — little things […]
At our Minnesota base, it snowed in record-breaking sums in February. That has us longing for warmer days — the ones we’re expecting this summer. We’ll be popping up at workshops all over the country this summer, delivering on-site, SNO-focused digital media training. Meet us there? Check out our schedule below and feel free to […]
When the calendar hits March 1 this week, you’ll have only two months left to earn SNO Distinguished Sites badges and the whole enchilada. To earn the Story Page Excellence Badge, you’ll have to submit correctly-assembled Grid, Side-by-Side and Long Form templates among other examples. In some cases, those are templates you have to plan […]