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 October 2007

Video on the cheap

Thursday, October 25, 2007

I’ve seen a couple of references recently to the Flip video camera ($119 - $149) from Pure Digital. Mark Hamilton (Notes from a Teacher) has written a couple of posts about this — he owns a Flip camera: (1) Point-and-shoot video: A review; (2) A Little Flip.

But if you see good-sounding video (Burma rally, for […]

More about the fires …

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

… at Clicked — a blog from MSNBC.com that’s about breaking news online.
Clicked offers a wide-ranging look at who is covering the fires, and how they’re doing it.
Update (10:32 a.m.): USA Today has two very cool fire features online — a continually updated fire map, and an explanatory graphic that shows how that map is […]

Covering a murder trial in Kansas

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Someone shot a county sheriff to death on a January morning in 2005 while he was serving a warrant. Almost three years later, a capital murder trial is under way in Eureka, Kansas, a town about an hour’s drive from Wichita. Wichita Eagle court reporter Ron Sylvester sits in the courtroom daily, recording the details […]

Straight outta Wisconsin

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Madison.com is the Web site of the Wisconsin State Journal, in Madison, Wisconsin. I have to confess, I knew nothing about the newspaper until a few weeks ago, when I examined one of their very first multimedia packages, Hip Hop 101. I wasn’t very excited about the package, but on Friday night the Online News […]

Vital maps: California fires, breaking

Monday, October 22, 2007

CBS News 8 is Web publishing TV graphics of the huge fires in southern California.
They replaced the whole home page with fire coverage. Nice breaking news work online — from a TV operation!
Tip via Lost Remote (other sites doing same; see detailed Google Map from LATimes.com).

Multimedia storytelling starts to grow up

Sunday, October 21, 2007

I have a theory: Put “graphics” in a panel title anywhere outside a Society of News Design conference, and attendance will be low — but use the words “Flash” or “storytelling,” and that room will fill up.
Three news graphic artists showed examples of their online work to a packed room during a panel titled “Integrating […]

More from the Online News Association conference

Saturday, October 20, 2007

I’ve been digging around in search of posts that summarize panels at the 2007 ONA convention in Toronto.
Howard Owens wrote about the so-called superpanel, moderated by NPR Digital’s Maria Thomas, with panelists Meredith Artley (executive editor, LATimes.com); Josh Cohen (Google News); Ian Clarke (Thoof); and Anil Dash (Six Apart). Bill Densmore posted some insights into […]