By Mindy McAdams

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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 March 2007

New Flash version announced; plus Brian Storm on Final Cut Pro

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

News flashes:
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Preorder $699 U.S., or upgrade $199 U.S.
Learn about Final Cut Pro from Brian Storm, FREE.
Technorati tags: Flash | video

Gigantic multimedia package: White City Stories

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

This is the latest opus from Rich Beckman, at the University of North Carolina:
White City Stories
Produced by students from UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Santa Maria Catholic University, in Arequipa, Peru.
Via Joe’s del.icio.us.
Technorati tags: multimedia | journalism | online media | storytelling

Hiding your best stories from the world

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

So The Charleston Gazette, a small newspaper in West Virginia, won an IRE award for its investigative series about mine safety.
After years of covering the coal industry, [reporter Ken Ward, Jr.] offers readers an unparalleled portrait of the dangers inside mines and the breakdowns of regulation that made 2006 a deadly year. Using documents and [...]

Have you seen any good front pages lately?

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

I don’t often take the time to look at Brass Tacks Design’s wonderful front page collection, but every time I do, I’m reminded how great a print newspaper can look.
These are sharp full-page images, and they load fast.
Here’s the archive.
Technorati tags: design | newspapers

Good stuff for photojournalists

Monday, March 26, 2007

Three recent posts that shooters might like:
HD video frame grabs for Page One (March 13)
Multimedia for beginners (March 9)
Online video arguments (redux) (March 10)
See also my posts tagged photojournalism (at Technorati).
Technorati tags: photojournalism | photojournalists | multimedia

U.S. population change since the 2005 hurricanes

Monday, March 26, 2007

An interactive map graphic from USAToday.com: “Sun Belt’s population grows as Gulf Coast suffers.”
Make sure you click the Louisiana area and roll over the counties. This is how a graphic tells a story!
It’s relevant, it’s important, and who else but a newspaper would ever do this much work in the public interest?
Read about how they [...]

The changing skill set for journalists

Monday, March 26, 2007

Poached and condensed from Larry Dignan, writing at ZDNet (”How journalism education should change“):
Teach entrepreneurship: I can’t emphasize this point enough…. Most journalists will ultimately wind up working for themselves. Why not teach them how? Why can’t journalism schools offer seed money to content startups? [Does he think we have money? Has he seen what [...]