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 [...]

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 [...]

I came across this blog again recently — The Panoramist. Photographer Gary O’Brien links to and comments about panoramas he finds online.
Recent panos included View of Sarah Palin’s Speech, with audio (New York Times). It’s a nifty view from the peanut gallery at the convention, with a good view of some VERY long lenses!
O’Brien also [...]

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 [...]

Part 1 is here.

At many news sites, the video player is about 400 pixels wide. That’s not as bad as the “postage stamp” video we used to get, before broadband, but it still ain’t big.
The video player at the Las Vegas Sun site is 988 pixels wide. That’s wall-to-wall on a lot of people’s computer [...]

One of the more inspiring stories of the intermediate stage of online journalism takes place in the Nevada desert.
At the beginning of 2008, almost no one had ever heard of the Las Vegas Sun. “We had about six weeks to build the site after we had the staff in place,” said Tyson Evans, new media [...]

Richard Koci Hernandez used to have this great blog called MultimediaShooter.com, and all of us online journalism junkies liked it — a lot! But it kept getting hacked, somehow, and Koci gave it up.
Now MultimediaShooter.com is back! And since Web guru Scot Hacker at Cal Berkeley set up the WP install, I think maybe we [...]