By Mindy McAdams
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Thanks to a journalist in Manila, in the Philippines, I found a fall 2007 Nieman Reports essay by Karl Idsvoog, a journalism professor at Kent State University, in Ohio. (The Internet is a wonderful thing.)
Idsvoog wrote about curriculum and a luscious new journalism building at Kent State, stuffed to the gills with technology and [...]
I’m late in posting about The New York Times’s excellent multimedia package about wrongful convictions, so a lot of you have probably already admired it. Let’s consider a few key points about it:
Made with Flash by one of the more adept Flash journalists, Tom Jackson. Not a guy who learned Flash last month. In fact, [...]
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Here’s an unusual package from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis: 13 Seconds in August.
After a reasonably short, arresting intro video, the package proper opens with a sliding aerial photo of the entire length of the 35W bridge after its collapse into the Mississippi River. Each vehicle in the photo is identified with a number [...]
In many different situations, I hear journalists asking for Flash training. I love Flash, and I will confidently proclaim that Flash is hands-down the best tool for building a full-fledged multimedia package for digital, online journalism.
Huh? Is my headline inconsistent with my lede?
As is so often the case, the answer depends on the question.
The Pennsylvania [...]
According to a column by Guy Berger, a South African journalist and journalism educator, a Howard University journalism professor has complained that her writing has been published under another author’s name in a very well-regarded textbook.
Howard’s Anju Chaudhary, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, co-authored the Asia section of the third edition [...]
I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.
At 5 min. 27 sec., it’s much longer than what works best for most audio slideshows. Consensus among people who watch a lot of audio slideshows is that after 2 minutes, most of [...]
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