By Mindy McAdams
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I remember liking the TV cop show “Dragnet” a lot when I was a kid. I was reminded of that “Just the facts, ma’am” drama while I watched and listened to this report from the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal: Was It Suicide?
The audio is very effective, in my opinion. What do you think about the way [...]
This just in:
Slideshows at NYTimes.com account for an amazing 10 percent of all traffic to the site, according to its general manager, Vivian Schiller.
Source: MarketWatch, via Lucas Grindley.
Schiller did not provide more specific statistics about the success of the slideshows, according to MarketWatch.
Check out New York Times slideshows.
In a very interesting report about the recent Women in Photojournalism conference in Austin, Texas, David Nolan tells us about a presentation by Pauline Lubens (a staff photographer for the San Jose Mercury News).
After starting to use sound with her photography presentations a few years ago she now feels that the element that has [...]
Some days, you can feel really hopeful about journalism.
I felt that way yesterday, while I was training for the second day at the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. Why so optimistic? Because I was surrounded by journalists, real journalists, who came from newspapers all over the U.S. for a five-day training experience in [...]
There’s a discussion over at SportsShooter.com that started when someone asked a question about Flash. The answers to the question (posted there) are good, but they got me thinking about something that bugs me a little.
A lot of people think they can learn a little Flash and then build a project right away.
I’m not saying [...]
A lot of multimedia work is features work. Breaking news might be covered with video, but of course the imperative is to get it online ASAP. This breaking-news Soundslides about a protest in Kennebunkport, Maine, has a heck of a lot of good stuff in it. Why don’t we see more like this?
When a [...]
Andrew Meares, chief photographer at The Sydney Morning Herald, reports that slideshows have become very popular with online site visitors — more so than video.
Total Soundslides pageviews to date are 1,214,918 (since October 2006). Our video team pop the champagne with 5000+ views, our top text stories of the week rate 80,000+.
The biggest hitters:
Pasha Bulker [...]
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