By Mindy McAdams
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Frontline is touting a new documentary series about the practice of journalism today. They have a nice Web page up for this, complete with six video previews from interviews with William Safire, Pat Buchanan, Bill Keller, John McLaughlin, Eric Schmidt and Jeff Jarvis. (Yes, every single one of them a white man over 40. You’d [...]
Andy Dickinson ran a workshop for print journalists who will be using video, and he posted some fascinating details about the training.
British print journalists can write shorthand at 100 words per minute? In 2006? Who knew!
What really grabbed my attention was the 150 words vs. 400 words comparison.
In TV, even if the information is there, [...]
I like to catch Frontline/World on PBS, and with a little help from TiVo, I was lucky enough to see three attention-gripping documentary shorts earlier this week. Now I just found a news item that says all three shorts were made by recent graduates of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California [...]
It was a strange marriage anyway, at least in my mind. Doomed from the start. But there was all that giddy optimism at the outset, everyone smiling and toasting, handing out money, building new houses they could live in together … In the face of so much happiness, you couldn’t mouth off about what a [...]
Finally! In Migrating Flash Projects to Video, Chris Georgenes of Mudbubble (and author of some of my favorite Flash animation tutorials!) explains step-by-step how to export any Flash movie TO TAPE — so you can drop it right into your broadcast system and air it.
I wrote about this two whole years ago (in my book [...]
Newspaper editors and TV news directors increasingly break stories on their Web sites (Media Mix/Peter Johnson, USA Today, March 19). Organizations as diverse as the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune (circ. 20,000) and NBC News (via MSNBC.com) do it without blinking an eye.
Rome Hartman, executive producer of The CBS Evening News, told Johnson that
CBS News executives have [...]
Pierre who? Yeah, I know. So I read this very nice (and SHORT) piece written by the always excellent Katha Pollitt on the occasion of Bourdieu’s death in 2002.
While reading Bourdieu’s (also very SHORT) book On Television, I can’t help but marvel at how the Internet is hardly even mentioned (I think he might have [...]
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