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 May 2007

Disappearing multimedia: This is nuts

Sunday, May 27, 2007

You have eight talented journalists working for hours under deadline pressure. They produce one of the best-ever examples of online storytelling. You post it on your Web site. You link it very prominently to the related stories. You feature it in the printed newspaper. And rightly so! It is a great achievement. It is a […]

Who shoots, who edits?

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Davin McHenry of Bakersfield reports:
At first we thought reporters were going to edit their own videos, but we ended up with issues of quality and efficiency. It just came down to the fact that a seasoned video editor could turn out a video in half the time and it usually would be more polished….
On most […]

Links to all EPpy winners

Friday, May 25, 2007

I’m really fed up with award lists that do not have links.
> 2007 EPpy Winners WITH links!
It took me 22 minutes to make these links. Link to this post, and I will consider it 22 minutes well spent.
Technorati tags: multimedia | journalism | online journalism | online media | awards | examples

Visual literacy in multimedia journalism

Friday, May 25, 2007

Building on my earlier post: How do we tell stories visually?
Let me begin with still photos. I know that many photographers like to put up a photo as a stand-alone, a work that answers to itself. In an art gallery, I can appreciate that. But it’s not a story, any more than a painting is […]

Visual literacy: Do you have it?

Friday, May 25, 2007

There are seven visualization types, according to a demo tutorial at the Visual-Literacy.org e-learning course:

Sketches
Diagrams
Images
Maps
Objects
Interactive visualizations
Stories

I found this interesting because I am fond of telling people there are five online media types:

Text
Photos
Graphics
Audio
Video
User interaction

(Yes, I know that’s six, but user interaction might include any or all of the others, while any of the others might exist […]

It’s here! Soundslides Plus

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Joe Weiss posted this about two hours ago:
It’s not just an update, it’s an entirely new version of Soundslides — the long planned pro version. New features include image movement (pan & zoom), built-in lowerthirds, thumbnail menus and the ability to create traditional (non-audio) slide shows.
Even though it will cost more than plain Soundslides, that’s […]

Knight News Challenge grantees announced

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Adrian Holovaty has been awarded a big Knight News Challenge grant to start a new Web venture. Read all about it at his site.
A list of all winners is at the Knight Foundation site.
Technorati tags: journalism | awards