By Mindy McAdams
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I gave a couple of presentations to U.S. journalism educators in St. Petersburg, Florida, yesterday and today. For each presentation I made a page of links to resources, examples, etc. The PowerPoint for each presentation is also online.
Blogs and Journalism
This presentation surveys the ways in which professional journalists are using blogs to enhance their reporting, [...]
One of the ongoing challenges in teaching journalism nowadays concerns the choice of software for video editing. I’m going to pump out a brief overview here and hope that lots of people will weigh in with their own experiences and suggestions. The more the merrier!
First, an outline of the programs that generally dominate the conversation [...]
I’m writing to highlight two excellent articles published this month about the international television news network based in Qatar:
Why I Love Al Jazeera, by Robert D. Kaplan (The Atlantic)
The Most Hated Name in News: Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism? by Deborah Campbell (The Walrus)
Al Jazeera English ought to be included [...]
So you walk into someone’s home or workplace and do an interview. After you’ve finished taking notes, you whip out your iPod Nano and do a 2-minute video interview for the Web. This iPod is so small, you might lose it inside your pocket!
To test whether this new Nano (released last week) would produce usable [...]
Many, many people asked me to create a single PDF version of all 15 posts in my RGMP series on this blog. It’s done.
Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 536 KB)
This 42-page document is fully linked and usable online in most Web browsers, or in Adobe Reader, or in Preview on the Mac OS. In [...]
This is the 14th post in a series titled “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” In the 13th post, I discussed how to edit video in a very simple editing program. In this post, I will explain an easy method for embedding your video in a post on your blog. (What, you don’t have a blog? [...]
This is a great resource: the Television Scripts portion of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism, online for free, accessible by anyone. Check these sections:
Write to Pictures
Story Structure
10 Key Words Approach (this is great!)
What Is the Story? (also excellent)
Shooting Soundbites
I’m saying this from the perspective of a journalism educator who struggles to find good professional materials [...]
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