By Mindy McAdams
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Photojournalists have stood at the center of the transformation in most newspaper newsrooms during the past 10 years. That’s not to say they always had a voice in how changes were made — but much of the new workload fell onto their shoulders.
As a staff photographer at The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle for more [...]
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 journalism [...]
This is the 13th post in a series titled “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” In the 12th post, I discussed storytelling principles and shooting techniques for Web video. In this post, I will explain how to edit video in a very simple editing program.
Let’s take a quick look at the steps:
Capture or import clips
Trim the [...]
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 bookmarking [...]
One way to teach multimedia reporting skills (by which I mean use of the reporting tools, not HTML and scripting) is to have an intense, short boot camp. Three days, five days maybe, with long hours each day.
Another option is to integrate the skills into a full 3-credit course — call it “multimedia reporting,” or [...]
Some months ago, when I had somehow been persuaded to fly to Los Angeles to participate in a nice event at the USC Annenberg j-school, I learned about a unique project commissioned by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. And then I forgot about it. And then I remembered, and I searched for it, but [...]
This year I’ve been experiencing some unexpected problems with viewing video in Flash, and after a conversation today with our college Web admin, Craig Lee, we think we’ve got it sussed out.
To cut to the chase, the problem arises because more Web video is now being distributed in the H.264 format, and some people have [...]
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