Newsroom training
Friday, April 18, 2008I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.
Archive for the “audio” category
The reporter’s audio gear list
Wednesday, April 16, 2008I saw this idea on someone else’s blog (I forget whose) and thought it a brilliant way to keep an up-to-date gear list that’s easy to share with others:
B&H WishList: Audio Gear (Mindy)
Please do not try to buy gear for me — it’s a “wishlist” for other people, not for me!
The one thing you can’t […]
Cheat sheet for multimedia story decisions
Friday, February 15, 2008As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well […]
Teach audio in your newsroom or classroom (here’s how)
Monday, January 28, 2008It’s one thing to know how to do a task. It is quite another thing to teach someone to do that task.
Some people are great doers and poor teachers. Some people can become great teachers with just … a little … help!
This post is designed to teach you how to teach audio gathering and audio […]
Choice for audio recorders
Friday, January 25, 2008John 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. We […]
Podcasts as a side dish, not the main course
Thursday, January 3, 2008Fighting against boredom is a big part of teaching. One of the struggles I face as a teacher is finding a balance between reviewing the assigned reading (and the assigned viewing, e.g. professional online work) and being too repetitious. Students who avoid doing the reading want the teacher to provide a full regurgitation, which obviously […]
Photojournalism: Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Friday, December 28, 2007Stunning on-the-scene photos and a voiceover narration by photojournalist John Moore:
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto (The New York Times)
I will venture to say that this collection of images — an audio slideshow without natural sound — is better than video. I also note the inclusion of several photos that are completely out of focus — […]
