Cyndy Green on the benefits of using a small video camera: I am no longer an invader, infecting the story with my mere presence. I am invisible. An old(er) lady with a camera. Ignored. I can now see the real story … not necessarily the story being acted out for the benefit of the camera. [...]
I am getting a little weary of hearing journalists and educators say they don’t know how to do audio. Let’s see whether I can translate my less-than-50-minute* lesson into plain text. Gathering Audio It helps if you are holding the recorder, mic and cable — and demonstrating while you teach this. (Sorry, I don’t have [...]
Somehow I missed this excellent post about SEO for online headlines, by Patrick Beeson, online for two weeks already! Read it and learn how to write headlines that will bring a bigger audience to your stories. Lucky for me, one of my forward-thinking colleagues here at the university asked if I knew any good resources [...]
In a widespread breaking-news situation such as the recent fires in California, a lot of news organizations would like the public to send in photos, video and reports from the ground. A post at the Veeker blog describes how the Veeker platform made it easy for KNSD-TV (NBC San Diego) to manage 1,704 viewer-contributed pictures [...]
Xaquin Gonzalez Veira compared online news organizations’ maps of the California fires last week. Gonzalez, the assistant art director at Newsweek who is responsible for the magazine’s online interactive graphics, writes his blog in Spanish, so I have taken the liberty of translating and paraphrasing his post: California en llamas (California in flames). Gonzalez had [...]
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How much time did you spend online yesterday and today? (Pause.) Compare that with how much time you spent reading a newspaper or a magazine. Last night I spoke to about 40 journalism students at a meeting of the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. My mission: To alert them to the role [...]