During the past year I’ve been in a lot of newsrooms and talked to a number of journalists, mostly working at medium-size and larger newspapers, about online. The journalists often wonder aloud whether their managers know enough about online — and note, they are talking about the ones in charge of the online. But over [...]
This weekend I will be attending the National Writers Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I’ll be the guest of the South Florida Sun Sentinel; I’ll be doing some training in their newsroom on Friday. Information about NWW is here. The schedule is here. My session might be the ONLY one that’s not about writing. I’m [...]
Update: Download Garrett Hubbard’s 3-page handout with tips, workflow, and more links! (PDF, 472 KB. Available here with his permission.) A first glance can give you a completely wrong impression. Go to the USA Today Web site and try to find some engaging, innovative video, and you might come away feeling certain that there is [...]
I came across this blog again recently — The Panoramist. Photographer Gary O’Brien links to and comments about panoramas he finds online. Recent panos included View of Sarah Palin’s Speech, with audio (New York Times). It’s a nifty view from the peanut gallery at the convention, with a good view of some VERY long lenses! [...]
Previously: Part 1 (Introduction to the Sun) and Part 2 (What They Do) While they’re shooting tons of video and chasing breaking news, the journalists at the Las Vegas Sun also manage to produce some darned impressive large projects. I blogged about their way-cool Flight Delay Calculator in April — it’s a data-driven interactive graphic [...]
Part 1 is here. At many news sites, the video player is about 400 pixels wide. That’s not as bad as the “postage stamp” video we used to get, before broadband, but it still ain’t big. The video player at the Las Vegas Sun site is 988 pixels wide. That’s wall-to-wall on a lot of [...]
Do you know enough about Twitter and Friend Feed? Are you adequately socially networked? Read Alf Hermida’s post about Scoble’s keynote talk at the Online News Association annual conference. Scoble didn’t say anything I didn’t know (and there are many like me in this room), but at least he wasn’t like the Reuters guy at [...]