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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for February 2007

Look at all those cameras (and video editors)

Monday, February 26, 2007

Watch this Apple Profile of washingtonost.com — do you think your print journalism courses or programs need to merge with broadcast news?
No way.
(Tip o’ the hat to my colleague John Freeman for the link.)
Technorati tags: video | online media | newspapers

Good audio: Homeless in New Jersey

Monday, February 26, 2007

The New York Times produced this first-rate slideshow with audio:
Homeless in Suburban New Jersey
This is one of those great examples when hearing the subjects speak in their own voices makes a huge difference.
They used their own Flash template, not a Soundslides. Reported by Kareem Fahim. Photos by Tyler Hicks. Producer: Juliet Gorman.
Technorati tags: photojournalism | […]

Looking for a journalism grad school

Friday, February 23, 2007

I hope some of the readers of this blog can lend a hand and provide some advice to another reader, who is looking for a graduate program to supplement her journalism skills. Here’s what she wrote in the comments:
Right out of college, I jumped into journalism and spent five years as a public radio and […]

Sports blogs: What up?

Friday, February 23, 2007

So probably we should keep an eye on Deadspin, if this list of The 20 Most Influential [men, apparently]: [In] Online Sports is any indication of who’s who in sports journalism online. (Wow, Neal Scarbrough went to AOL? Happened in May.)
I went Googling around for sports blogs for a short while. I scanned though The […]

I want this (video) camera

Thursday, February 22, 2007

My colleague Craig sent me the info about a new mojo camera from Canon, the PowerShot TX1:

7.1 effective Megapixel CCD
F3.5-5.6, 10X optical zoom lens, equivalent to 39 - 390 mm
Optical image stabilization (lens-shift type)
Flip-out, rotating 1.8″ LCD display with 115,000 pixels
Records movies at 1280 x 720 (30 fps) with stereo sound until 4GB file size […]

Esquire online: Yawn

Thursday, February 22, 2007

From Ad Age, Feb. 21:
Esquire today became the first of Hearst Magazines’ big books to receive a much-needed web facelift, adding larger photos, easier navigation, an improved search engine and, of course, new online-only content.
I don’t know what it looked like before, but this is pretty boring. The design is clean enough, but heck, even […]

Multimedia package: Liberians in Minnesota

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Just out from the Star Tribune, which produces some of the best online journalism stories anywhere, this large package about immigrants from Liberia points the way toward improving journalism interface design.
Now, the story is excellent, and there’s great reporting here, and stunning photography too. The audio sequence in the intro Soundslides just blew me away, […]