By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

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Live chat with videographer

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

USA Today video journalist Garrett Hubbard will answer questions about visual storytelling in a live chat at 3:45 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 25,  on Chrys Wu’s blog, Ricochet.
I wrote about Hubbard’s outstanding video work last week.

Outfit yourself for audio gathering

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs.
All the information you need is here: [...]

The utility of a blogroll

Monday, September 22, 2008

I updated my blogroll this morning. It needed some culling, as some blogs I used to read are no longer being updated. I added a few new ones too. Not necessarily new blogs, but new to my list.
Yesterday I got a question from an audience of journalists: How can we find these blogs about online [...]

If not you, then who?

Monday, September 22, 2008

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 the [...]

Live in Fort Lauderdale

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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 going to [...]

Advice from a pro about online video

Thursday, September 18, 2008

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 none.
Garrett [...]

Why the Las Vegas Sun is so great (Part 3)

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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 that [...]