By Mindy McAdams
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Last night, David Simon appeared on The Colbert Report. Here is the episode. To go straight to Simon, click the controller bar at the 14-minute mark.
The Wire is a five-season series that ran on HBO. Not being an HBO subscriber, I am watching the series for the first time now, via Netflix DVD rentals — [...]
While I was shamelessly picking the brain of Matt Waite in recent weeks, he advised me that if I don’t have more than three to five weeks to spend on “data” (sort of akin to what we used to call “computer-assisted reporting”), what I should focus on is teaching the students something about data visualization.
So [...]
Many journalists tell me that the numbers for Web site visitors are watched very closely in their newsrooms. They know which videos get clicks and which ones don’t. They know which thumbnails translate into high numbers for photo galleries. These numbers are driving a lot of decisions about resources — and content — on news [...]
JANUARY 3-6
Creating Audio Narratives
Jim Seida, MSNBC, and Nancy Donaldson, The New York Times
Multimedia Production
Meredith Birkett, MSNBC, and Kim Grinfeder, UM SoC
Teaching Multimedia: A Workshop For College Educators
Rich Beckman, UM SoC, and Laura Ruel, UNC JOMC
JANUARY 7-10
Creating Video Narratives
Faculty: Travis Fox, WashingtonPost.com, and Jim Virga, UM SoC
Creating Effective Online Infographics
Alberto Cairo, UNC JOMC, and Xaquin G.V., The New York Times
Multimedia Programming for [...]
What’s up with newspaper video today? On the news that The New York Times is preparing a big new video thrust, it’s got to be worth some thought.
Peter Ralph recently wrote 7 tips to encourage those of you in regional newsrooms across the U.S. who haven’t given up on video, and Rob Curley wrote [...]
Amy Gahran explains Twitter for journalists in a new post. It includes a straight-up tutorial on how to get started.
One thing I would emphasize: Twitter is all about whom you are following ( “follow” is to Twitter as the verb “friend” is to Facebook). If you are following very few people, or uninteresting people, or [...]
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Matt Waite’s approach to data-driven journalism. After I posted, Matt sent me an e-mail with some additional information, and I asked him if I could publish it here. He said yes.
Back in “the Paleolithic era of our Web site,” he wrote (meaning 2004), the St. Petersburg (Fla.) [...]
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