MTV made a Flash game to explain some facts about the deadly situation in Sudan: Darfur Is Dying. News junkies: Check out this informative package from mtvU about Sudan. I just found this today. Looks like there’s a lot of material here that I can use in classes about online journalism. Technorati tags: journalism | [...]
If you’re behind the times and not clued in to YouTube, NPR aired a good overview of YouTube on Morning Edition today. The audio is online now, and worth a listen. Related post (April 14, 2006): YouTube: $11.5 million, 176 million page views/month Technorati tags: video | online media | YouTube
I believe discussion of change is good, and more information is always better than less, So with no further ado, I urge you to read Sion Touhig’s blog post about the ongoing evolution of photojournalism. Sample: In recent years, photographers (including myself) have failed in the most part to keep up to speed with the [...]
I’ve been talking with a lot of people lately who are saying there’s no point in designing a new slideshow player. We should still make slideshows online, of course. They’re a great way to show off photography, and the added dimension of audio really completes the story. We have several inexpensive options for creating a [...]
I spent the weekend at the NPPA National Summit in Tampa, Florida, and as I expected, there was a lot to learn. Much of it came from Richard Koci Hernandez, a photojournalist who works at the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News and produces the associated site MercuryNewsPhoto.com. Like Jen Friedberg, Seth Gitner, David Leeson, Brian [...]
PaidContent is keeping an eye on MySpace and the other social sites popular among young people: MySpace had 6 per cent more visits than Bebo last week but three months ago that was 39 per cent. Bebo has already overtaken MySpace in terms of session duration which averages around 25 minutes. Faceparty and Facebook have [...]
I don’t mean to imply that anyone’s doing anything underhanded — it’s all just business as usual, as made clear by Richard Siklos in this New York Times story: … given how much the Internet has already transformed the media and society, it’s surprising how little money traditional media companies make directly from it.Don’t take [...]