By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Do you know enough about Twitter and Friend Feed? Are you adequately socially networked?
Read Alf Hermida’s post about Scoble’s keynote talk at the Online News Association annual conference.
Scoble didn’t say anything I didn’t know (and there are many like me in this room), but at least he wasn’t like the Reuters guy at lunch yesterday [...]
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 [...]
I’m at the annual Online News Association conference. Here’s the schedule of events. I hope to post some details about the “Playing the News” pre-convention session I’m in right now, but not yet.
The annual winners of the Society of News Design multimedia design competition include only two Gold awards, and both went to The New York Times.
I missed this one, explaining an accident in New York City. I really like how it uses a photograph combined with animation to show what happened, and it uses that now-familiar [...]
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