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New media scholarship launched for NZ journalists

New media scholarship launched for NZ journalists

January 11, 2011

Allaboutthestory.com, a start-up online marketplace for news stories and cartoons, is launching its first scholarship for NZ journalists.

The Allaboutthestory.com Media Scholarship aims to help build links between the media and web development communities in New Zealand and contribute towards greater depth in reporting on the web industry.

This February the scholar will attend one of New Zealand’s best known web conferences - Webstock – where they will have the opportunity to interview big names from overseas tech companies and fill their contact books with the good and great of New Zealand’s own web glitterati.

Allaboutthestory.com founder and managing editor Julie Starr says web-based businesses constitute a growing and important sector of the NZ economy and one that offers terrific promise for all kinds of companies - including media companies.

“Any way you look at it the future of the media is digital, and the more that journalists can learn about covering business online and operating online themselves, the better.

“This is a terrific opportunity for a journalist not only to learn more about the web and see examples of innovative journalism overseas, but also to interview some of the world’s most interesting online business people and researchers.

“UK data journalist David McCandless, who wrote ‘Information is Beautiful’, is one of the speakers this year. Data journalism and information graphics are a fast developing and fascinating area of online journalism and this is a great opportunity to learn more about how to do them well. I’d jump at this if I were a young journalist.”

Speakers at Webstock 2011 include co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Microsoft Research senior researcher danah boyd, co-founder of Tumblr and founder of Instapaper Marco Arment, data journalist David McCandless, and Ruby on Rails luminary (and allaboutthestory.com co-founder) Michael Koziarski.

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