Colin Mulvany, a veteran photojournalist and, more recently, a videographer for his newspaper, started his blog on Jan. 1, 2008. Already he has learned all kinds of unexpected things — in just two short weeks. Not because he read about blogging. Because he IS blogging: We talk a lot about being web-centric at my paper. [...]
Who, you ask? Surely you have seen the elaborate student multimedia productions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including Chiloé Stories and The Ancient Way. That’s Rich Beckman. News via Greg Linch, a student journalist at the University of Miami. Read the press release from the Knight Foundation.
Alan Mutter at Newsosaur is nonplussed at a journalism student’s unfamiliarity with Mike Royko (1932 – 1997), the beloved Chicago newspaper columnist. As a teenager, I read Royko’s syndicated columns in the local rag that served as a newspaper in my hometown in Pennsylvania, and I confess, I loved them. Probably they had some influence [...]
I have some new HV20 video cameras for my students to use. Our semester began last week, but I’m a little behind on getting everything set up for them. I’ve never taught shooting before. Five or six years ago I used to teach video editing in Premiere, but I cut that out when I started [...]
Will Sullivan did a brilliant thing in his blog yesterday: He evaluated four professional journalism / visual journalism / multimedia journalism organizations he belongs to. The four are the Online News Association (ONA), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Society for News Design (SND), and Sports Shooter (which has an excellent Web site you can read [...]
Over the weekend I realized that I had not marked the two-year anniversary of this blog’s inception on Dec. 20, 2005. (Probably because I was in airports all day on Dec. 20, 2007.) So I looked up my “anniversary post” from last year and found myself kind of surprised at some of the progress the [...]