By Mindy McAdams
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Ben Shapiro has some serious chops: His film and video work has been shown on PBS, the Sundance Channel and the National Geographic Channel, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has three Emmys and an AFI documentary prize. He wrote a very helpful essay [...]
The fabulously popular Soundslides program is now available in two flavors: regular and Plus.
The regular product is still $40. The Plus version is $70. Both flavors are available in Windows and Mac versions.
Plus provides a bunch of extra visual features that photographers have been clamoring for, but which beginners probably do not need. If you’re [...]
Melissa Worden asks about ethics in gathering and editing audio. I am asked these questions a lot when I do training.
Worden found (and quoted) some excellent resources.
Here’s what I tell students:
The cardinal rule is the same as in written journalism, when you write quotes into a story: Never change the meaning of what the person [...]
You’d think everyone would know this by now, for cryin’ out loud! But I see posts to Listservs and discussion forums from people who still haven’t figured it out (and who apparently don’t know how to do a Google search!).
Audio hardware:
Audio recorder: Olympus WS-300M, or DS-2 (or the discontinued WS-200S) — these are less than [...]
Okay, it’s finished, and online now:
Editing Audio with Audacity (Part 2) (PDF, 193 KB)
Download it, print it, share it with your friends. You will be initiated into the secrets of multitrack editing in Audacity!
Part 1 is here:
Super-Fast Guide to Audio Editing (PDF, 236 KB)
As always, I BEG YOU for comments and suggestions. I [...]
Joe Weiss posted this about two hours ago:
It’s not just an update, it’s an entirely new version of Soundslides — the long planned pro version. New features include image movement (pan & zoom), built-in lowerthirds, thumbnail menus and the ability to create traditional (non-audio) slide shows.
Even though it will cost more than plain Soundslides, that’s [...]
I finally got my hands on a copy of “Telling the Story: The National Public Radio Guide to Radio Journalism,” published in 1983.
In general, the more powerful the event, the easier it will be to do a story, because strong stories tell themselves. If you are working on a story about prison conditions and a [...]
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