To find out what’s needed in today’s newsrooms, in mid-June I asked photo editors and multimedia producers at four newspapers which skills are still in short supply. Video editing, storytelling and audio skills led the list. Even though his newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, has pulled back from its earlier online ambitions, Colin Mulvany said today’s visual [...]
I was looking at this Iran protest slideshow from The New York Times today. It does not have audio, and so I would normally call it a gallery — not a slideshow. But it is carefully captioned, with factual material that goes beyond what we see in the photos, and there is a story of [...]
Renee Barnes is a radio journalist in Australia; she also teaches online journalism there. In her blog News Frontier, she recently asked readers to rank eight skills, or skill sets, for new journalists: Evidence of blogging and interaction with a wide range of blogs An understanding and active use of social media (Twitter, RSS, social [...]
I don’t want to start an argument, but I do want to see a discussion. Yesterday while grading some critiques by students, I watched Jessica Dimmock’s three-year project, The Ninth Floor. It’s not the first time I’ve watched it. I’ve got no question that it’s great photojournalism and has great production values. It’s real, it’s [...]
Having graded 25 students’ Soundslides today, I have a few pointers to offer for anyone producing an audio slideshow: DO: Have clear relationships between what we hear and what we see. If the event planner is talking about making the decorations, for example, show the decorations. Tell a story. Don’t just slap on an interview [...]
I just found this excellent 24-slide tutorial on Slideshare. It’s really about how to think about telling a story with pictures, so the title “Storyboarding” is misleading. But there’s some nice stuff in it, especially if you’re teaching audio slideshows to journalism students. The presentation comes from Vadim Isakov, who teaches taught journalism at Ithaca [...]
(Updated Thursday, March 19, 10 a.m.) I was going to title this “Produce a feature story with Soundslides, using an interview and natural sound,” but that seemed a tad too long. Besides, it doesn’t necessarily require the Soundslides application (although I am going to frame this in terms of a slideshow, rather than video). Chuck [...]