By Mindy McAdams
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Cher Phillips lives in McIntosh, Florida. She started publishing the McIntosh Mirror in May 2006 to cover the public meetings in her town.
About 430 people live in McIntosh. Spanish moss droops from the majestic live oak trees that shade old Victorians and more humble Florida cracker houses. Every October the town holds an 1890s festival, […]
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Advice for young journalists — a great new post at Journalistopia. Heck, all you old journalists ought to read it too!
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Vincent Maher posted a good list of tips for writing a good blog entry (explained in detail at his site):
A blog entry is a stub for conversation
Think about the perspectives of your audience
Write tight headlines that encourage interest
Make points or lists, and make them scan-friendly
Link to the context
Quote indirectly and link
Format long documents for print
Never […]
Why did ABC News use a blog post to break the story about Congressman Mark Foley’s suggestive e-mails to a congressional page?
Because the story wasn’t weighty enough to be on World News, ABC’s flagship nightly news program, according to ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, who broke the Foley story. The blog allowed ABC […]
Tom Green’s article The Rise of Flash Video, Part 2, is online now. I blogged about Part 1 earlier this month.
Green also has free Flash tutorials on his Web site.
I recently found Green’s excellent how-to about creating a talking-head Flash video on the Adobe Web site.
I have a lot of Flash books in my personal […]
I created an 8-page handout for the Flash video workshop we conducted in Rousse, Bulgaria, last week. You can get the PDF file (titled Flash and Video) and try it out yourself. I made a few edits after we tested the handout with our 15 workshop participants.
The handout explains how to take a finished video […]
Former president of Peru Alejandro Toledo visited the University of Florida on a speaking tour, and our student journalists interviewed him.
The text story at our student daily’s Web site has two links attached, one to a pop-up slideshow (Soundslides) and the other to an MP3, well edited, of a telephone interview conducted before he arrived. […]
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