John Kroll is the news impact editor at The Plain Dealer (cleveland.com) in Cleveland, Ohio, and he was kind enough to allow me to share his opinion about the Zoom H2 recorder, which I’ve been dying to try out (but I have no money for these right now). “The H2s are working fine for us. [...]
Wired’s Compiler blog covered it: The site touts itself as “a geographic filter” for your city or your neighborhood. Each of the three city-specific sites serve as an info-hub of sorts, showing the hot stories from local newspapers, radio and television stations as well as local blogs, free weekly papers and independent media sources. Al [...]
My colleague who teaches (newspaper) editing asked me to guest-lecture in his class yesterday. He wanted me to speak about current online journalism practices. As I guest-lecture in a number of classes in our college, I have to be careful not to always say the same thing and show the same examples. In this case, [...]
From the Global Voices collective comes a nice guide that could be useful in journalism education as well as in numerous developing countries or other places with press constraints: Citizen Media: An Introduction (English, PDF, 489 KB) Other languages The PDF includes lots of links to interesting blogs and other cit-J sites where people are [...]
Can you do great narrative storytelling purely in XHTML and CSS? Or do you need Flash? This provocative question stems from a recent blog post by Khoi Vinh, design director for nytimes.com. He didn’t come straight out and ask that, but pretty close: My complaint, right now, is that the majority of storytelling that happens [...]
Does this sound familiar? An innovation replaces an earlier convention and, in time, becomes a new convention. It is a cycle — a process in which insight inspires change and creates value. We rarely recognize innovation while it’s happening. Instead, innovation is often a label applied after the fact, when the results are clear and [...]
Yesterday my students went out with their HV20 cameras to shoot for the first time. Their (ungraded) assignment was to get the five shots described in Michael Rosenblum’s “Five Step Method,” which is much like the sequence you’ll find described in a lot of beginner video books. Basically, you are shooting five specific close angles [...]