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Multimedia training in Miami

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

JANUARY 3-6

Creating Audio Narratives
Jim Seida, MSNBC, and Nancy Donaldson, The New York Times
Multimedia Production
Meredith Birkett, MSNBC, and Kim Grinfeder, UM SoC
Teaching Multimedia: A Workshop For College Educators
Rich Beckman, UM SoC, and Laura Ruel, UNC JOMC

JANUARY 7-10

Creating Video Narratives
Faculty: Travis Fox, WashingtonPost.com, and Jim Virga, UM SoC
Creating Effective Online Infographics
Alberto Cairo, UNC JOMC, and Xaquin G.V., The New York Times
Multimedia Programming for [...]

Posted in education, journalism, multimedia, online, training
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Reassessing newspaper video

Monday, October 27, 2008

What’s up with newspaper video today? On the news that The New York Times is preparing a big new video thrust, it’s got to be worth some thought.
Peter Ralph recently wrote 7 tips to encourage those of you in regional newsrooms across the U.S. who haven’t given up on video, and Rob Curley wrote [...]

Posted in journalism, newspapers, online, video
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Why you should learn to love data

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Learn a Web framework, Matt Waite urged my journalism students on Tuesday. He recommended either Django or Ruby on Rails, and he characterized arguments over which one is better as “nerd Pepsi vs. Coke.”
Matt is the concept and programming brains behind both Neighborhood Watch ( “porn” for middle-class homeowners in a couple of Florida counties) [...]

Posted in data, jobs, journalism, journalists, online, reporting
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Articles, comments, stories, conversations

Friday, October 17, 2008

The format for networked reporting doesn’t exist yet, but I’ve been thinking about it in terms of how comments manifest public opinion (as well as an ugly underbelly of hate).
Networked reporting, as Charlie Beckett sees it, is a collaboration between the public and the journalists. It’s not the same as citizen or civic or public [...]

Posted in audiences, community, ideas, interactive, journalism, online, participation, reporting, socialnetworks
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Some online journalism resources

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

This week is a bit hectic, with a one-hour guest lecture, a two-hour workshop, and a lunch presentation (tomorrow), plus a committee meeting and a faculty meeting, all in five days. This is on top of my regular teaching, and prep for teaching, and the ever-present grading backlog.
So, not to complain, but I’m going to [...]

Posted in education, journalism, online, teaching, tools, training, tutorial
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Stuff to teach the next journalists

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Please help me with this. In my college, we’ve been working on a list. Rather than a vague list of skills, we’re trying to write what we would expect the student to be able to do. You know — actually DO. So here’s the starter package, which addresses cross-platform concerns:

Write a 12-inch story (400–450 words) [...]

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How shared bookmarks can make you smarter

Sunday, October 5, 2008

It’s hard to believe I have never before written a blog post about using Delicious.com, but that appears to be so.
Delicious (also known as del.icio.us) is a tool I’ve been using for a long time to keep up with information overload. It completely replaced my Firefox bookmarks (IE favorites) a while ago.
The new post I [...]

Posted in education, online, participation, socialnetworks, teaching, tools
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