By Mindy McAdams
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I’m no fan of the horse-race style used to cover elections. I am very interested in the issues, and in what candidates say, compared with what their past actions say about them.
PolitiFact is a politics site for me, and it sure has been a long time coming. A joint project from the St. Petersburg (Fla.) […]
Some people in journalism still like to blow smoke about blogs and bloggers. You know, all that blah-blah about blogs being irresponsible, unedited, pointless, unreliable, etc. Witness the cranky L.A. Times column by Michael Skube.
If you want some examples of how blogs have uncovered useful information, caught journalists and public figures in lies, and […]
Melissa Worden, a multimedia producer at the Herald-Tribune, in Sarasota, Fla., went to the multimedia training workshop at the University of Minnesota a few days ago. She made several blog posts about the workshop (which sounds excellent!). In this post, she provides a great mini-primer of the most common advice for new video shooters.
I’ve heard […]
I made a Soundslides about the video training I wrote about on Friday. It runs 2 min. 17 sec.
I shot 133 photos and used 30 in the slideshow. I interviewed six of the participants for about two minutes each. The trouble with this (as you’ll see) is that it’s not really a story. But I […]
With all the talk about Gannett’s so-called Information Centers, there’s been a lot of curiosity about what kind of training is provided to help the Gannett newsrooms change over. Yesterday I got to see one day of Gannett’s video training for reporters. I enjoyed it a lot — especially their classy gear! Take a look […]
Some days, you can feel really hopeful about journalism.
I felt that way yesterday, while I was training for the second day at the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. Why so optimistic? Because I was surrounded by journalists, real journalists, who came from newspapers all over the U.S. for a five-day training experience in […]
The editors and other professional journalists on my department’s advisory board tell our faculty — every semester — that they want us to teach students how to work as members of a team. I can tell you from experience, it’s one thing to require students to complete an assignment as a team, and quite another […]
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