About 13 years ago, when I worked on the online news product of The Washington Post, we struggled with two time-consuming challenges: classified ads and story categories. They were not the only challenges, of course, but they proved particularly difficult to manage. The classifieds already had a highly structured system of categories (houses for sale, [...]
I’m still working on research on the accessories, but I have decided on the Canon HV20 for student use. I have open-sourced all my research on the camera and accompanying gear, so feel free to take what you will. Two invaluable sources of information have been Chuck Fadely’s Newspaper Video group on Yahoo and Andy [...]
I love books. Are you surprised? Books are the next best thing to online media (hee hee). Paul Bradshaw has posted a list of the best books ABOUT online journalism. Go on over to his post and check them out. (I added my two cents in the comments there.) This is especially useful if you [...]
If you are only a writer, can you make a living? Will you be able to make a living as a writer in the future? How, and for how long? I’m talking about journalists here, not novelists and poets and scholars. Journalists. The question can be phrased in several other ways. The reasons to consider [...]
Mark your calendar … What: A panel discussion about current trends, led by six “media influencers.” A different kind of panel (we hope), with a real conversation among the participants, and no PowerPoint in sight (Columbia Journalism Dialogues series). When: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Where: Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, [...]
Note to myself: Must teach students how to handle these two things (both lifted from a post by Cyndy Green). (1) You know what you want in the story, so tell the reporter ahead of time HOW to shoot the exact footage and HOW to get the audio that you want. (This is much better [...]
Usually I don’t post on a weekend, but you’ve got to read this if you work in journalism today, or if you hope to work in journalism in the future: Video workload survey results Andy Dickinson’s survey may not be scientific enough to be published in an academic journal, but it sure does give us [...]