Sharing know-how for multimedia journalists

Thanks to a post on the News Videographer blog, I learned that Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has started a new blog of his own, Mastering Multimedia.

I’m excited, because I have long been a big admirer of The Spokesman-Review’s Video Journal, a blog where Colin and others at the newspaper display and discuss their videos and audio slideshows. The blog is a nice format for this — easy to use. More important, this is a news organization that has been producing some very good stuff for quite some time. (Fuel truck explosion in northeast Spokane remains one of my favorite news videos of all time.)

This is Colin:

For 18 years I was a still photojournalist, but in 2004 I knew the gig was up. Declining circulation and advertising revenue and a shrinking news hole at my newspaper led me to explore the emerging world of multimedia journalism. Soon video and audio slideshows became part of my new storytelling toolbox. … These past several years I have been able to sow the seeds of what I have learned.

In another post, he shares his New Year’s resolution:

I will be steadfast in looking for ways to help my newspaper make a smoother transition to doing more compelling multimedia. That means I need to become a better teacher, a better manager, a better storyteller. I want to help empower my newspaper’s journalists with new tools, both software and hardware as will as effective training to help them tell stories in ways they never thought possible.

“A better teacher, a better manager, a better storyteller.” Colin is a role model. I have already added his blog to my RSS reader.

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