Journo stuff I’ve collected on 01/17/2014

• Introducing delve | Adam Westbrook // Journal

  “‘d like you to meet delve – it’s a web video channel I’m building for people who want to take their learning seriously. It’s not a course, or a qualification, and it’s not for people who want to study something particular. It’s for people who love learning for the sake of learning, who want to feed their mind the most beautiful and unexpected feasts. Right now I’m testing it out on Tumblr and Medium.”

  tags: journalism learning

• Tech reporter Brian Krebs hacks it on his own, one scoop at a time | Poynter.

  “Working alone means Brian has to be his own publisher — an area in which he says he sometimes gets “pushback from fellow journalists.” Brian manages sales and relationships with advertisers, almost all of which are involved in the topics he covers. The publisher side of the job means he sometimes has to explain to disappointed sponsors why their buys never guarantee coverage. He also says he discloses relationships when he needs to refer to an advertiser — as was the case in a story this week that quoted the co-founder of a threat intelligence firm. “

  tags: journalism tech reporter

• Will 2014 will be the year the Banyan Project finally takes flight? » Nieman Journalism Lab

  “Reaching the $50,000 threshold will trigger something else as well — the site’s first journalism project. Stites proposes asking the co-op’s members for ideas about a significant piece of enterprise reporting. Those ideas will be put up for a vote, and a freelance journalist will undertake the winning assignment, all the while soliciting the community for suggestions, documents, and the like.”

  tags: journalism cooperative boston

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