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

Thinking Bloggers

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

David at Strobist kindly (I think) tagged me with the Thinking Bloggers meme. I am invited to post links to five blogs that make me think.
Well, it would be too simple to link to blogs that already appear in my blogroll, wouldn’t it? After all, the charge is not to list my favorite blogs, or [...]

Photojournalism: American Diversity Project

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The 2007 American Diversity Project is set in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It’s a photojournalism package with audio, multimedia, and traditional (silent) photo stories that documents a place.
The photo work is excellent, well worth a look.
The Flash package has some very good points and a few unfortunate bits.
Good points: Single-screen interface, no pop-up windows, no scrolling. Easy [...]

Cool online internship

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The advertisement reads:
INTERACTIVE Help build our award-winning website. Assist with online community building, web research, interactive features, HTML coding, image/audio/video editing and writing articles and interviews.
The internship is at P.O.V. (Point-of-View), the public television series of independent non-fiction film and video. “P.O.V. films have won every coveted television and film award, including 18 Emmys, 11 [...]

The no-fear guide to multimedia skills

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

I gave a 90-minute talk at the National Writers Workshop in Wichita, Kansas, on Saturday. You can download the handout and get all the relevant links here. This was the program text:
The No-Fear Guide to Multimedia Skills
Confounded by audio? Scared to death of video? Wondering if you’ll ever master multimedia packages? Take a deep breath [...]

Popular Flash Journalism tips

Monday, May 21, 2007

I was poking around in the stats for my Flash Journalism site and noticed that a few of the very short “tips” tutorials are quite popular — there seem to be a lot of searches for these.

Open a pop-up window (from within a Flash movie)

Link via a button (go to a new Web page from [...]

Video storytelling tips from a veteran reporter

Monday, May 21, 2007

When Ken Speake was a young TV reporter, he received a bit of criticism from an older, wiser journalist: “You don’t have a style.” To improve, he was told to choose two reporters he really liked, then watch and analyze everything they did for two weeks.
At the end of the two weeks, he reported back [...]

Journalists can apply for Fulbright grants

Friday, May 18, 2007

This is off-topic, but I feel so strongly that international experience is one of the best things you can ever give yourself — I hope you’ll excuse the interruption.
Journalists (who are not educators) are eligible to receive Fulbright funding to go abroad to selected countries. You must be a U.S. citizen when you apply. The [...]