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 June 2007

Something amusing for the weekend

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Brought to you by Current TV.
Link via Seth in my del.icio.us network.
Technorati tags: Flash | funny | humor | Bush | interactive | interactivity | parody | animation

Labels: Flash, interactive

Brought to you by Current TV.
Link via Seth in my del.icio.us network.
Technorati tags: Flash | funny | humor | Bush | interactive | interactivity | [...]

New — Soundslides Plus

Friday, June 15, 2007

The fabulously popular Soundslides program is now available in two flavors: regular and Plus.
The regular product is still $40. The Plus version is $70. Both flavors are available in Windows and Mac versions.
Plus provides a bunch of extra visual features that photographers have been clamoring for, but which beginners probably do not need. If you’re [...]

Blog milestone: Visit No. 80,000

Friday, June 15, 2007

Last night at 9:47 p.m. someone from the San Diego Union-Tribune made the 80,000th visit to this blog. Woo-hoo!
FeedBurner reports that I have 878 subscribers via RSS.
Visit No. 40,000 took place in March 2007, according to Site Meter.
Visit No. 20,000 — November 2006.
Visit No. 10,000 — Aug. 21, 2006.
Thank you all for reading. Let me [...]

Arizona State comes in first in Hearst Awards

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Overall top-scoring schools in the 2006-2007 Hearst Journalism Awards Program — the Pulitzers of college journalism:

Arizona State University
University of Missouri
University of Florida
Western Kentucky University
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania State University
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Montana
Syracuse University
University of Kansas

Arizona State! I’m disappointed that the Gators are No. 3, but I’m very proud of my colleagues down [...]

Behind the scenes: Making multimedia journalism

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

After I had viewed this multimedia package (which was reported, shot, designed and programmed by Jerry Wolford, staff photographer for 20 years), I had to ask Jerry some questions about how he managed to get it done.

The Dragon and the G-Man
If you look at a lot of the journalism multimedia out there, such as the [...]

Multimedia project: St. Louis Blues

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Wowee! That’s my reaction to this sweet project from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis Blues
I love the cigar box! And the “Roots” section: Wow! WOW!
This is the real American music, and St. Louis has a special stake in it.
Flash programming by Brian Williamson. Assistant programmer: Jacob Piercy.
Technorati tags: Flash | Flash journalism | online journalism [...]

Photojournalists support charity effort

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

This just showed up in my e-mail: 20 remarkable works of photojournalism are up for auction at an online fund-raising site called cMarket.
All the photographs are SIGNED museum-quality 24-by-18-inch prints (!) on silver rag by Crane, on 100 percent fiber paper. Printing has been provided at cost by Broadway Digital Prints.
Bidding via the online auction [...]