Getting people to work in teams is tough, because everyone thinks it’s more efficient to just go out and get it done. The end product isn’t as good, though, when the producers and reporters fail to work together and talk about stuff in advance.

Good luck with your project, Ed! And pass on my thanks to your tutor, please.

Your tips have helped me think more about the story and remember that I’ve got to TELL it and in a way that will really work with the audience. It’s quite a meaty story and I was struggling to find ways to present it, but I think I’ve got a better idea now.

The teamwork section was really interesting, I’m the assistant editor for our student newspaper here at UCLan and we’ve launched our online news service in the past month – and we’re looking at converging with the radio station and newspaper next year, and the teamwork section has given me some ideas about how that should work.

And by the way, our tutor references your blog in every lecture…you sure you’re not paying him?

Waiting for Hillary

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/multimedia/hillary_1106/

We tightened things up on Monday, post publishing on Friday and learned a few things along the way.

We currently just used a team of four to cover an event. Two photojournalist went to a Hillary Clinton event, and one set up a digital recorder on the lectern.

When they got back, they started editing and toning the images, I began to edit the audio and the photo editor edited the images. Earlier in the day I had set up flash templates for possible story forms.

In the end, all four of us edited the final sound slides show that we published online before the writer had finished with his copy.

There are times when one voice and vision works well, but there are other times that a group effort is stronger, faster and can tell the story in a unique way.