I’ve been invited to give a Flash journalism workshop at the NPPA 60th Anniversary Photojournalism Summit, June 23-25, at the
Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in Tampa, Fla. I’m very excited about this, because the National Press Photographers Association is the premier organization for U.S. photojournalists, and this is their biggest event of the year.
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The Guardian put up A teacher’s guide to blogging in January. It’s very brief, nicely done. The article is part of the larger Special Report: Weblogs from the renowned British newspaper, which has a fine Newsblog of its own.
I required journalism students to keep individual blogs last fall. I liked the results and will probably […]

Today I looked at QuackTrack — more specifically, QuackTrack’s list of blogs in the Journalism category. Journalism is a sub-category of Media. The only subcategory within Journalism is, interestingly to me, Photojournalism, where I discovered the engrossing blog PhotoJournalism, by Mark M. Hancock. (Today he has Mardi Gras pictures.) There are 43 blogs in Photojournalism, […]

Today NPR did a radio story about one of my current favorite examples of great online multimedia, Folk Songs for the Five Points. I love this package not only because it’s different from anything else I have ever seen (and I’ve seen a LOT of multimedia) but also because it tells a story in a […]

Six years ago I concentrated on teaching my students the “browser-safe” palette. That’s not so important nowadays. But a lot of journalism students still don’t know anything about using color effectively.
The Color Scheme Generator is a great help.
I’ve used a lot of similar tools over the years, but this one is the best ever. I […]

OhmyNews (English version here), the robust Korean citizen-journalism Web site, got US$11 million from Softbank, a Japanese investment firm. Softbank received a nearly 13 percent stake in OhmyNews in the deal. OhmyNews said it will start a Japanese-language news site (when? Don’t know).
Full story at Red Herring.
Technorati tags: journalism | citizen journalism | online journalism

Ray Villalobos has started posting FREE Flash tutorials on his Web site. For example, here’s how to build a slideshow that loads photos or animations from an external source.
Ray is the director of multimedia for Mega Communications and former interactive designer for the Orlando Sentinel’s Web site. He’s going to share one new Flash tip […]