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MediaStorm announces multimedia workshops

See the MediaStorm Workshops page for details. Prices are steep for the five-day Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop in New York — $3,000 to $4,500 — and room and board are not included. However, enrollment is limited to three reporters, three editors, and three observers for each workshop, so you wouldn’t be lost in a crowd. [...]

A good sports graphic doesn’t require rocket science

One of our journalism students, Ryan Moulton, is largely self-taught in Flash, although he’s now learning more about it in a course taught by one of our grad students, Dave Stanton. Here’s the team graphic Ryan put up on the student daily newspaper site, in time for the University of Florida varsity baseball season opener: [...]

MVPs for January

Most visited posts on this blog from January 1, 2008, through February 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics: Do you know who this is? Time to get crazy Get your act together with video, or give it up Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD Teach audio in your newsroom or classroom (here’s how) [...]

We are not educators, and we long for the past

Two comments from the audience of science journalists (at the Future of Science Journalism Symposium, at MIT Tuesday and Wednesday) surprised me a bit. Let’s see what you think. First, after Henry Jenkins (author of the first-rate book Convergence Culture) had spoken about how people interact with and produce online content, several of the journalists [...]

Advice from Orange County’s science journalism blogger

Gary Robbins heard that a local jeweler had bought Albert Einstein’s wristwatch and put it on display in Newport, Calif. Robbins finished his reporting on the story by about noon that Saturday. Normally he would have held on to the story — not posting it on his blog at the Orange County (Calif.) Register Web [...]

The insider peek at Columbia’s j-school

The memo from Columbia j-school dean Nick Lemann has been discussed by several people already (see for example Charlie Beckett and Jeff Jarvis) — but it’s so incredibly long, even more remains to be said. The most important change in our skills-oriented Master of Science program has been adjusting its curriculum in response to the [...]

Summary of multimedia journalism educators seminar

If you are a journalism educator who has ever said, “I do not know how to teach this new multimedia stuff,” this is for you. Rachele Kanigel, an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, attended the Poynter seminar for journalism educators last week, and she posted daily summaries to her blog, The [...]