Journalists have been publishing on the Internet for more than 25 years, but they are still relying on old story forms of just a headline and text. Structured journalism harnesses the power of the I...
Laura Amico
Laura Amico is editor of data and multimedia projects at the Boston Globe and founder of Homicide Watch, an innovative platform for data-driven coverage of violent crime. The platform is used by news organizations and universities including The Trentonian, Sun-Times and Northeastern University.
Laura was an inaugural Nieman-Berkman fellow in journalism innovation at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year.
She began her career as an education reporter at the Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville, Calif. Later, she joined the Press Democrat’s newsroom in Santa Rosa, Calif. as their crime reporter. She is a New York Times Chairman’s Award winner, a Knight News Entrepreneur Boot Camp alum, and an inaugural MJ Bear fellow.
If newspapers are "zombies", journalism wants to survive and prosper. Economic sustainability is the philosopher's stone that everyone is still searching for, starting from one certainty; in a digital...
New journalistic ventures such as HomicideWatch, PolitiFact, and the ConnectedChina project by Reuters have moved beyond the traditional inverted pyramid news story and have started new journalistic f...