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This 95-year-old vet goes viral with San Jose Mercury News video
There’s a reasonable chance that you or someone you know has seen this video. It shows runners breaking off in the middle of a race to thank World War II veteran Joe Bell for his service. Bell was...
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Breaking news coverage dominates the January DFMies and Tout Bout
Breaking news coverage won more than half of January’s DFMie and ToutBout awards. Six of the awards were won by staffs or individuals responding to breaking news situations: Metro DFMie: The Los...
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Unbolt enterprise reporting from the ‘Sunday story’ with these questions
(Editors note: The following post was originally published on Steve Buttry’s blog.) A leading challenge in unbolting newsrooms will be to help enterprise reporting break free of the “Sunday story.” For...
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How we did it: Our exclusive Affordable Care Act database project
Digital First Media was the first news organization to build a national database for analyzing premium costs on the health insurance exchanges set up as a result of the Affordable Care Act. This unique...
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Jason Hoppin went to NICAR and came back “armed to the teeth”
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of reports from three Digital First Media journalists who attended NICAR14 through the Digital First Represents program. There were close to 1,000...
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Here’s how to DIY your own data journalism project
Before I went to the annual NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference, I often thought of data as numbers gathered and distributed by officials or academics — like annual...
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Jason Fields doesn’t win much, but when he does …
From firearms to assassination to fiery debates, this month’s nominees for Thunderdome’s Web packaging contest blew away the standard text article format creating in-depth, engaging stories with video,...
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How LANG “owned” coverage of Colby Fire and earthquake anniversary
This is the second in a series of Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. An earlier post detailed the Charleston Daily Mail’s coverage of the West Virginia water crisis. Other winners...
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Here’s how Connecticut Magazine is unbolting from print
In some form, Connecticut Magazine has existed for more than 100 years, and the current incarnation of the state’s “original lifestyle magazine” was launched about 40 years ago. An issue from the 70s...
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Behind the DFMies: Daily entertainment tips and Tout Bout winner
This is the third in a series of Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. Three Bay Area News Group (BANG) journalists won Digital First Media DFMie awards in January. Chuck Barney and Jim...
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Here’s what Sean Adkins took away from NICAR14
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of reports from three Digital First Media journalists who attended NICAR14 through the Digital First Represents program. Late last year, a worker at York...
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Make smart NCAA tournament picks with help of Bracket Advisor
Whether you are a college basketball expert or novice, our Bracket Advisor tool can help you make educated selections in your March Madness pool. Thunderdome’s NCAA Tournament tool is up and running,...
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Behind the DFMies: January winners share breaking news advice
This is the fourth in a series of five Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. Digital First Media journalists in New Mexico, Massachusetts and Ohio won January DFMies for their swift...
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MVP award goes to the editor who led our Olympics coverage
If a gold medal were to be given out for Digital First Media’s national coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics, we’d have to give it to the guy who led the show: Thunderdome sports editor Gary Kicinski....
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Behind the DFMies: Lessons from harassment reporting and surfing coverage
This is the fifth in a series of five Behind the DFMie reports on January’s DFMie winners. January’s DFMie winners included a repeat winner for event coverage and a strong example of watchdog reporting...
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Christopher Gotsill wins Print Front Page DFMie
Christopher Gotsill of the Bay Area News Group won the 2014 Print Front Page DFMie for his April 21 cover addressing teens’ views about rape. The editors’ nomination explains: Taking a topic that is...
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Daily Camera wins Breaking News DFMie for flood coverage
The staff of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., won the 2014 Breaking News DFMie for its coverage of September flooding. The nomination explains: The first full weekend of September 2013 along...
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Jason Plotkin is Journalist of the Year for mid-sized dailies
Jason Plotkin Multimedia journalist Jason Plotkin of the York Daily Record won the 2014 Journalist of the Year DFMie for mid-sized newsrooms. The editors’ nomination detailed his outstanding year....
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Charlie Brennan wins Investigative/Enterprise DFMie
Charlie Brennan of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., won the Investigative/Enterprise DFMie for small newsrooms for breaking a story that had stayed a secret for more than decade. On Jan. 27, 2013,...
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Jim Steinberg, Rachel Luna and Paul Penzella win Watchdog DFMie
Jim Steinberg, Rachel Luna and Paul W. Penzella won the 2014 Special DFMie for Watchdog Journalism for their project on continued contamination of drinking water in Hinkley, Calif. The San Bernardino...
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