By Mindy McAdams
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I’ve changed the URL of this blog and ported it from Blogger to WordPress. There are still a few kinks to be worked out in the CSS (especially for IE 6.0, that awful browser), but mostly it’s ready for prime time. If you see any errors or ugliness, please tip me off.
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Getting and Keeping a Job in Journalism
Flash Video Tutorial
What I Learned from the Online Photojournalists
Basic Kit: Gear for the Multimedia Reporter
New — Soundslides Plus
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the WorldEvan Ratliff, June 26, Wired magazine
Since Google relaunched the software in June 2005, the stand-alone Google Earth program has been downloaded more than 250 million times. The program’s seamless zoom-in feature has become ubiquitous on television news shows. And there are dedicated sites — such as […]
It takes me eight weeks to teach Flash to undergraduate journalism students. That’s starting from zero. If they do all the homework and study all the examples, they can be very good at the end of eight weeks. Mostly it takes time and dedication, rather than any special talent or computer aptitude.
When I do training […]
Andrew Meares, chief photographer at The Sydney Morning Herald, reports that slideshows have become very popular with online site visitors — more so than video.
Total Soundslides pageviews to date are 1,214,918 (since October 2006). Our video team pop the champagne with 5000+ views, our top text stories of the week rate 80,000+.
The biggest hitters:
Pasha Bulker […]
I have been working for some time on ways to teach people how to manage bigger Flash projects. This is one of those cases where I’m finding it hard to figure out how to teach something I know how to do, because (a) the process is so holistic; and (b) every project is different.
So I […]
A really nice column by my friend Regina McCombs: Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His “Effect.”
Burns believes the photograph is still the core of visual storytelling, that “the still image is still the essential building block, the DNA, at least photographically speaking, of visual creation.” From that foundation emerge three concepts to consider when […]
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