By Mindy McAdams
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I sent my eight journalism grad students on a mission to watch and critique two newspaper videos, and they found some excellent stories (see the Blogging 1 assignment for details; find their critiques using these links). I told them they had to find the video on one of five newspaper Web sites, and they had [...]
I’ve been reviewing the final projects of a few of our journalism master’s students. Every year we have some students who produce an online package as a project in lieu of thesis; the project is supposed to represent an effort comparable to that required to produce a traditional master’s thesis.
We have a good idea what [...]
I spent the past two days playing host to Ken Speake, a master storyteller and a longtime journalist. We put him in front of as many students as we could without completely wearing him down to a nub, and it might have been the most valuable 50 minutes each of those students has spent all [...]
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 [...]
Can you do great narrative storytelling purely in XHTML and CSS? Or do you need Flash?
This provocative question stems from a recent blog post by Khoi Vinh, design director for nytimes.com. He didn’t come straight out and ask that, but pretty close:
My complaint, right now, is that the majority of storytelling that happens on the [...]
So I’m studying a few feature-length documentaries and reading the book Documentary Storytelling, 2nd edition, by Sheila Curran Bernard. Some thoughts:
1. We can learn a lot from Errol Morris.
I watched The Fog of War for the first time and found it fascinating, amazing, a great example of compelling storytelling. At the same [...]
This semester I had the opportunity to create and teach a new graduate course, focused on multimedia storytelling. I admitted 15 students, all of whom had some prior experience as reporters (for some, it was only a one-semester reporting class).
The course is called Journalists’ Toolkit 1, and the complete syllabus is online.
The students’ final assignment [...]
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