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Knight Center Publishes Spanish Book Online: 'How to Write for the Web' Knight Center Publishes Spanish Book Online: 'How to Write for the Web'
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin has just published the book in Spanish, How to Write for the Web, written by Colombian journalist Guillermo Franco.
The book can be downloaded in PDF format for free from the Knight Center’s website: http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/como_web.php
How to Write for the Web is the second skills guide for journalists that the Knight Center has published.
In December 2007, the Knight Center launched electronic Spanish and Portuguese editions of the book Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive, A digital literacy guide for the information age, written by U.S. journalist Mark Briggs. The Spanish, Portuguese, and English editions of that book can also be downloaded in PDF format for free from the Knight Center's website: http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/journalism20.php
Franco's new book presents practical examples about writing for online publications, as well as research from other sources. He considers it to be more than just a manual, but rather a starting point for a more comprehensive guide about writing for the Web, with contributions from journalists throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Already, several colleagues who participated in the project have begun a discussion group in Facebook about “How to write for the Web.”
“This document will serve as part of the answer to the journalist training needs in Latin America. It follows the same path and philosophy of other efforts supported by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas,” said Rosental C. Alves, founder and director of he Knight Center.
In the introduction to his book Franco writes, “In the search for information about this topic on the Web and in many books and interviews that we conducted, we found all kinds of viewpoints but we favored those that were backed up by research.
"While revising the document as a whole, two names gained on importance (by the number of times they are cited): the Poynter Institute and Jakob Nielsen. This work pays tribute to the two of them but especially to Nielsen, who is an indispensable reference in terms of Internet usability topics, who generously shares his knowledge on his website," Franco says in the introduction.
Franco has 23 years of journalism experience. He has dedicated the last eight years to digital journalism and the Internet. He developed all of his career at Casa Editorial El Tiempo (CEET), owner of the El Tiempo daily newspaper and eltiempo.com, the website with the most audience traffic in Colombia. From 2000 to 2008, Franco worked as New Media Content Manager at CEET and as the managing editor of eltiempo.com. He was responsible for the content strategy of all the websites that belong to the organization.
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas was created by Professor Rosental Calmon Alves at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism in August 2002 thanks to a generous donation from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
In 2007, the Knight Center received a new five-year grant from the Knight Foundation to refocus its work as a digital media training center for Latin American and Caribbean journalism, and to expand its efforts to serve as an incubator for new journalism organizations.
Added Dec 05, 13:13, 2008
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