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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 July 2007

Looking for a textbook for online journalism?

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The PDF version of “Journalism 2.0″ (132 pages) is available for download (free) at the Knight Citizen News Network (J-Lab) Web site.

Foreword by Phil Meyer
Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
Chapter 2: Web 2.0
Chapter 3: Tools and Toys
Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
Chapter 5: How to Blog
Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
Chapter […]

Video boot camp: The hands-on bits

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Reading over my previous posts about the Travel Channel Academy video boot camp, I realized I have not given you a clear idea of what we did. So I’m going to delay the Day 4 summary and tell you about the work.
On Day 1, we got cameras about noon and went out to shoot. There […]

The second day of shooting

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Day 3 of the Travel Channel Academy video boot camp: This was Saturday; I just couldn’t write a post until now (no time!).
Rosenblum exhorted us to have a story in our heads before we began to shoot. He also encouraged us to aim for a very low shooting ratio. (I was successful at that: For […]

Still more from video boot camp

Sunday, July 22, 2007

We went out yesterday afternoon to find a story to shoot. I’ll write more about that later when I have more time. We started editing our second story yesterday evening. I left our workroom at Discovery Channel HQ about 8:30 p.m., but then I got some takeout and continued working in my hotel room until […]

More reporting from video boot camp

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Day 2 of video boot camp: We began with a lecture about visual storytelling, then heard a talk from one of the Travel Channel’s executive producers, David Gerber. He described his career and what he does in his daily job. He introduced us to a new word (for me): “preditor.” That’s someone whose job combines […]

Boot camp for VJs

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I’m attending the second Travel Channel Academy, in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. It’s a four-day course in digital video: shooting, editing and storytelling. Each day will run about 10 to 11 hours; today (the first day) we went from 9 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. Michael Rosenblum and associates are leading the training, […]

Moving to deadline video online

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Colin Mulvany at The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Washington, sent me a link to this video that he shot, edited and narrated, which I had not seen before. What I really liked about it:

Watching the EPA clean-up crew wheel dozens of giant barrels of toxic waste out of an average-looking suburban home. This is a case […]