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Use more photos! Start now!

Not showing enough photos on your news Web site? Will Sullivan has a short list of tips and juicy links for you. Technorati tags: photojournalism | photojournalists | photography | multimedia | slideshows | slide shows

Video at the newspaper; bloggers shooting for TV

On the occasion of The Washington Post’s winning an Emmy award for broadband video, Nick Madigan, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, interviewed Kate Marymont, the editor of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida (circ. 90,000; see profile of the newspaper). At The News-Press … reporters known as “mojos” — for mobile journalists — carry [...]

Watching TV on your cell phone

People are doing this. Really. Among all mobile TV users, ABC News was the most watched mobile TV channel in Q2 2006, securing 40 percent the total mobile TV audience (see Table 1). Thirty-two percent of the total mobile TV audience watched The Weather Channel, while Fox Sports and ESPN followed closely with 31 and [...]

What’s next for online content?

At Mediangler, Haydn Shaughnessy looks at podcasts and vidcasts/vodcasts, movie downloads, mobile content, portals, and online magazines — giving us a brief and plausible overview of where he sees it all going. The post is titled “Where is Content Headed 2,” and it’s (naturally) a follow-on to “Where Content is Headed (1),” in which Shaughnessy [...]

Mobile blogging — and why you might do it

Why post to a blog from a BlackBerry? Dave Winer gives several reasons, including this example: Jackie Danicki writes that she blogged “from the Vatican during New Year’s Eve Mass, with the Pope a few feet in front of me.” He adds, “You could also blog during a disaster like a hurricane or after an [...]

Blogging where you come from, where you live

Metroblogging is a site of many blogs. What they have in common, apart from an identical look and feel (pretty generic, actually), is that each blog is really about a place. I mean, really. About. A place. From San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what’s going on [...]

Which OS for journalism students?

The Mac-vs.-PC argument is as old as … well, as 1984. I have not owned a Mac since 1997, so don’t count me in the “Mac fanatics” category (although I do have a MacBook Pro on order, after living a Windows-only life for seven years). But the argument is at least worth listening to, especially [...]