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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 “photojournalism” category

How we find multimedia stories

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Multimedia Muse treats visual stories in a way that makes good sense to me. This is a “show me” site, not a bang-bang-bang headlines site. This is a buffet spread out for you when you have 15 or 20 minutes to spare. Make it your lunch date today or tomorrow, and feast on some fine [...]

Multimedia from Vietnam

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Van Mon: A Forgotten Existence is a multimedia story reported and produced by Ehrin Macksey. I met Ehrin when he visited Florida last year; he lives in Hanoi, Vietnam, and makes his living there as a photographer and multimedia trainer. When I visited Vietnam in June, he was just trying out his new video camera, [...]

For lovers of panoramas

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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 [...]

Photo galleries on news Web sites

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Photo galleries tend to be popular with visitors to online news sites — so it’s common to see these featured at or near the top of the home page. Many local newspapers use wire photos — often ONLY wire photos — in these galleries. (I’m not sure that’s the best strategy, because I can go [...]

Geoffrey Hiller in Bangladesh

Saturday, August 23, 2008

You may know Geoffrey Hiller’s name — he’s a photojournalist and multimedia producer who has worked all over the world (see his portfolio). His photography projects are beautiful and moving, but I also admire his dedication to learning the new tools, including the nasty stuff such as XHTML and CSS. In my mind, he’s the [...]

Simple idea, gorgeous photos

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Nice idea (see it here):
The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com’s Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm’s MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery — with a [...]

Is it real, or is it Photoshop?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What did the scene really look like? Too many photojournalists have been dodging and burning the heck out of their pictures for too long. It’s not real, and it’s not accurate. But they’re doing it anyway, ethics be damned.
In a wonderful and long-needed blog post, Carrie Niland serves up one educational example (in a real [...]