By Mindy McAdams
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Many people have already blogged David Leeson’s instant classic at SportsShooter, posted Nov. 16. Well, I just got around to reading it. If you don’t know David Leeson’s name, you ought to — he was one of the early newspaper photojournalists to pick up a video camera. Some excerpts just from the middle of his [...]
Howard Owens provides detailed answers to some questions I posed earlier about print reporters and video, and about non-TV journalism Web sites, in general, and their use of video. The questions stemmed from another post here that received a lot of diverse comments.
I’ve known Howard for many years, almost entirely through Listservs about online journalism. [...]
Yes, “those who use the Internet to publish information” surely should enjoy “broad immunity against defamation liability” even when they publish information “that originated from another source.” Doug Fisher has a summary, quotes, buzz, links and more. I salute the California Supreme Court for a decision that upholds the First Amendment rights of citizens.
Update (Nov. [...]
Interested in online news design? Then read this article about the design team at nytimes.com.
Khoi Vinh, the nytimes.com design director, shared his insights about learning to work together as a team to design a great online news experience:
“By and large, everyone at the Times wants the same thing: to continue to provide the best journalism [...]
Nice, nice, super nice! The San Jose Mercury News tells a meta-story about nice towns all over America (turning into crowded suburbs with bad traffic) via this finely edited and packaged multimedia story about Hollister, California.
Richard Koci Hernandez did the Flash. Jim Gensheimer did the visuals and audio. Geri Migielicz did the photo editing. [...]
Aggregating your content into a big bundle does not build audience. It just makes another big mess that the users can’t navigate efficiently.
Giving away your local news. Oh, yeah, brilliant. The only unique thing you’re got, and you’re going to hand it over to people who know how to exploit it — and also cut [...]
At the Vancouver Film School, students in the Digital Design program will “create an interactive journalism Flash project”:
This project begins by selecting a newspaper article that you want to make more meaningful to a target audience. Next, you’ll use the skills introduced to you in the User Experience and Interface Design courses to come up [...]
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