By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “tutorial” category

Better interviews: Don’t follow Mike Wallace

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

We are always struggling to teach young journalists how to interview better.
Successful interviews get people to go further than they planned to go, and rarely come from a planned list of questions, even when the questions are good ones. Interviewing does not work that way. It is a dynamic process involving two basic stages. Stage […]

Part 2 of the quick-and-easy guide to audio editing

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Okay, it’s finished, and online now:
Editing Audio with Audacity (Part 2) (PDF, 193 KB)
Download it, print it, share it with your friends. You will be initiated into the secrets of multitrack editing in Audacity!
Part 1 is here:
Super-Fast Guide to Audio Editing (PDF, 236 KB)
As always, I BEG YOU for comments and suggestions. I […]

Seeking feedback about tutorial

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

On Friday, I posted a shiny new tutorial (PDF, 236 KB) for Audacity — a free audio editing program that works on Windows, Mac and Linux. About 130 people have downloaded it so far. I’m very eager to hear if any of you tried it, and if you did, how was it?
Technorati tags: audio | […]

Tutorial: Getting started with Audacity

Friday, May 11, 2007

Audacity is a free audio editing program that runs on Windows, Macs and Linux. There are already a lot of tutorials online for Audacity, but of course I think mine is the best. It’s heavily illustrated. And you can print it.
Super-Fast Guide to Audio Editing (PDF, 236 KB)
Don’t forget, the Audacity manual is online […]

Best tutorials for Flash video

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

The E X C E L L E N T tutorials at gotoAndLearn.com are back! There are eight “Video Basics” tutorials specifically about doing video in Flash (the BEST way to do video online! No kidding!). On top of this total sweetness, Lee Brimelow also gives us (free!) two FLV tutorials — one for encoding […]

NewsU has 14,000 students

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

A year ago, Poynter launched NewsU, a free site for online learning about my favorite subject — journalism. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to register (it’s free), and most self-directed courses take only an hour or two.
Take a look at “Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News,” for example (start with the video documentary section; it’s good). […]

Flash for broadcast TV video

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

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 […]