By Mindy McAdams
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A Florida media law firm, Thomas & LoCicero, sent around a tip sheet for journalists this Election Day. What follows is copied exactly from the firm’s e-mail:
In anticipation of Election Day and in recognition of Florida’s checkered voting past, here are some general issues that may arise in your coverage of voting in Florida. [...]
Newspapers will NOT be playing a significant role in the reinvention of news, says Dan at Xark, and he lays out 10 reasons to back up his assertion.
Yesterday a journalist who (still) works at a big Florida newspaper told me, “Last year we were trying to shoot as much video as possible. This year, we’re [...]
Last fall I blogged about the choice between a MiniDV video camera and the new tapeless models (Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD). The AVCHD format poses some challenges if you are trying to work with older video editing software and/or older computers. However, the prospect of going tapeless (and having faster file [...]
I can’t get Sarah Palin’s gibes about “community organizer” out of my mind. I felt somewhat sick at how raucously the big crowd laughed at the phrase every time she said it. What kind of people are these, I wondered, who disrespect the idea of organizing a community to work on its own behalf? I [...]
A spring 2008 graduate of our journalism program got a job as an editorial producer with MLB.com. That means he gets paid to watch baseball and write about it. Sweet, no?
So to help out other journalism students, Nick Rosinia wrote this — “The ‘How to Watch Baseball All Day and Get Paid Handsomely (Well, Not [...]
Update (Nov. 5, 2008): If you are looking for video and a transcript of the speech by President-Elect Obama on Election Night, it is here.
The text that follows was posted on Aug. 29, 2008:
I would like to say for the record that I watched the convention on television. I watched it Tuesday, Wednesday, and last [...]
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 [...]
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