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 “video” category

Two things I learned this weekend

Monday, April 14, 2008

(1) You can make a playlist of a selected group of videos in YouTube and then generate a custom video player (also in YouTube) to play just those videos — in any order you select. Maybe this is old news to everyone else, but it was new to me. I thought it was really cool, [...]

MVPs for February

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Most visited posts on this blog from February 1, 2008, through March 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics:

6 tips for comments on stories and j-blogs (this post garnered more than 1,200 pageviews from StumbleUpon in the one-month period, with those visitors spending an average of 1 min. 37 sec. on the page; in contrast, [...]

Some fine examples of newspaper video

Monday, April 7, 2008

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 [...]

Dith Pran, 1942 - 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008

“One time is too many.”
A moving video memoir of the Cambodian photojournalist, from The New York Times.
I remember seeing the film “The Killing Fields” in 1984 and wondering how this could happen. Then it happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina , and in Rwanda, and in Darfur. Maybe more people were killed in Cambodia than in any one [...]

Journalist video training in Europe

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

The European Journalism Centre has announced a five-day video training course, to be held at its offices in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Sessions will be held in April, June, and September.
(Thanks to Andy Dickinson for the link.)

Video that really shows you something

Saturday, March 8, 2008

I just took a break from grading my students’ first video stories to look at the NPPA video winners, online here. The Judges’ Choice for video photography is “A Far Off Wild Place,” by Scott Jensen. Wow! It’s 5 min. 37 sec. of beautiful images of brown bears fishing, eating, walking, and generally just being [...]

Positive developments in Los Angeles?

Monday, February 18, 2008

Some highlights from a speech to the L.A. Times newsroom by Russ Stanton, the new editor, on Feb. 14, 2008 (thanks, Marco!):
Yesterday, we rolled out the first of our breaking news blogs, in Metro — L.A. Now — which is led by blogger extraordinaire Veronique de Turenne. And the first of our neighborhood pages will [...]