By Mindy McAdams
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Yesterday I watched a documentary video I had TiVo’d earlier from the Sundance Channel:
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
Unfortunately it’s not yet available on Netflix (?!), even though it was released last May. I recommend that you file the title away so you remember to watch it later. It’s a very good example of documentary [...]
These are interactive news packages I’ve selected to show to journalism students as we discuss some of the capabilities of Adobe Flash. Many are very recent.
1. Motion
The first thing students learn to do in Flash is animation. Although a lot of animation is merely eye candy, it can help to tell the story more effectively.
The [...]
Have you seen the L.A. Times homicides map? I’m sure you’ve marveled at the New York Times homicides map, and perhaps you have also admired the Boston Globe homicides map. The L.A. map, however, has a lot (a lot!) of fine features that the others lack.
One of my students wrote a critique of the L.A. [...]
The other day I received an e-mail from someone with a programming background who’s interested in learning how to build journalism packages in Flash. He asked how to get started and whether I was planning to release a new edition of my 2005 book Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages.
First I directed him [...]
Toxic Waters is a large investigative journalism package from The New York Times. Some folks say there is no place for this kind of series in journalism nowadays, with all the Sturm und Drang in the news business. But here we see journalism providing one of its more vital functions in society — bringing into [...]
I’m wondering whether people like these Evri widgets and find them useful:
The one above appeared beneath a story headlined “In Obama’s Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos’ Release Was Intense,” published April 23. The one below appeared beneath a story headlined “In Mexico, Young Adults Appear Most at Risk,” published April 26. Both stories appeared at [...]
I ran a workshop for journalists yesterday in Tampa, Florida, as part of an event hosted by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors (FSNE) and the Florida Press Association (FPA). The workshop began at 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 4 p.m.
Since I was called in at the last minute, I did not prepare a list [...]
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