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

Archive for the “music” category

Multimedia packages: Music journalism

Monday, September 17, 2007

Among the finalists for the Online Journalism Awards category “Outstanding Use of Digital Media,” three of the seven packages center on popular music: Forty Years of ‘RESPECT’ (Detroit Free Press), a tribute to the Aretha Franklin song; Hip Hop 101 (Wisconsin State Journal); Wonderful World (The Honolulu Advertiser), a tribute to Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s take a closer look —

Multimedia project: St. Louis Blues

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Wowee! That’s my reaction to this sweet project from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
St. Louis Blues
I love the cigar box! And the “Roots” section: Wow! WOW!
This is the real American music, and St. Louis has a special stake in it.
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Encore from the animator of JCB Song

Thursday, April 19, 2007

The incredibly talented Laith Bahrani (he of considerable fame for the JCB Song, about which a complete cult has developed) is now featured on MediaStorm with his latest music video (hmm, a bit of a departure for MediaStorm, eh?) — Creep, by Radiohead! WOW!
Don’t click unless you are an animation fan.
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Multimedia from Florida student journalists

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Our students are fabulous. Check out the profiles of eight local bands photographed and interviewed on location in Orlando by Alligator staffers (pop-up window opens from the link at right, “Gainesville heard at FMF”). For something completely different, see what an intern from UF created for the St. Pete Times with hard news on deadline [...]

Free music, legally

Friday, April 14, 2006

This is off-topic for both teaching AND online journalism, but it is related to copyright, so I’m just posting a brief heap o’ links: Paste magazine (cover price $7.95), includes a CD with 21 tracks and a DVD full of short films; found it in the Austin, Texas, airport; bought it because the Flaming Lips [...]