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In 2009, McClatchy-Tribune News Services, one of our distribution partners, released about a dozen of our News21 stories to its clients. Gannett's Content One distributed a similar number, though with fewer accompanying photos.

Here are two editors' perspectives on improving the odds of publishing, depending on visuals.

From Carol Johnson, newsfeatures editor, MTNS:
"That’s a great question about photos. For your students, I would te… Continue

Here is a response from Gannett Content One editor Laura Rehrmann. I had shared with her an example of a 2009 Maryland story about Columbia, a town created to be a model for community diversity. It runs 2,300 words (63 inches) and the "nationalized" nut graph was about 25 inches into the story, with particular relevance to other highly diverse communities across the USA.

I asked her, "What do you… Continue

This is the Flash file that created "The Charter Explosion" map that shows the dramatic growth of charter schools from 1992 to 2008.

CharterExplosionCS4.fla

It is free for use or adaptation.

I thought I'd share two things that Britton brought to my attention that are exemplary approaches to storytelling.

A NYT Magazine photo presentation on the bedrooms of U.S. soldiers who have died. Syracuse: What if you pull together a gallery of places where displaced veterans are living in the U.S.? How many live at home? In an apartment? In a box un… Continue

Here's a link to a collection of all the presentations, held Feb. 26-28 at ASU's Cronkite School.