This is the 10th post in a series titled “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” In the ninth post, I explained how to think about managing the photos you add to your blog posts, including the advantages of photo-sharing sites such as Flickr. I also discussed copyright concerns that every blogger should be aware of. In [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The journalists in the training session here in Saigon have impressed me with their enthusiasm. Have a look at this Soundslides created by Nguyen Tien Giang of the Saigon Times on Tuesday night. He recalled this photo essay by one of the newspapers reporters (yeah, not a photojournalist) and persuaded another colleague (one in my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]