By Mindy McAdams
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As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well [...]
Will Sullivan did a brilliant thing in his blog yesterday: He evaluated four professional journalism / visual journalism / multimedia journalism organizations he belongs to. The four are the Online News Association (ONA), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Society for News Design (SND), and Sports Shooter (which has an excellent Web site you can read [...]
Thanks to a post on the News Videographer blog, I learned that Colin Mulvany, of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, has started a new blog of his own, Mastering Multimedia.
I’m excited, because I have long been a big admirer of The Spokesman-Review’s Video Journal, a blog where Colin and others at the newspaper display and [...]
You’ll laugh, gasp, and cry. This is always the best collection, in my opinion — all through December, I look forward to seeing it!
MSNBC.com 2007 Year in Pictures
Make sure your audio is on — the audio is wonderful.
Stunning on-the-scene photos and a voiceover narration by photojournalist John Moore:
The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto (The New York Times)
I will venture to say that this collection of images — an audio slideshow without natural sound — is better than video. I also note the inclusion of several photos that are completely out of focus — [...]
I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.
At 5 min. 27 sec., it’s much longer than what works best for most audio slideshows. Consensus among people who watch a lot of audio slideshows is that after 2 minutes, most of [...]
Too many people in the journalism field still don’t get it: Great photography tells a story. And it sells the story too. Here’s an example of how it pays — yes, actually pays, in terms of bigger audiences — to understand that.
“D” is a local magazine for the Dallas - Fort Worth (Texas) area. Usually [...]
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