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 [...]
Most visited posts on this blog from November 1 through December 1, according to Google Analytics: Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD The slow crawl of journalism education Video that means something Which video camera to buy First lesson in audio for journalists For that time period, 1,221 URLs were viewed a total [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]