By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
A minimalistic PowerPoint outlines the basics, in modular pieces:
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I gave this presentation today at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Related resources are linked on this page, which I prepared for five days of journalist training in Vietnam earlier this summer.
My aim in this [...]
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