By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
“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 [...]
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.)
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 [...]
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 [...]
As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well [...]
This is a list of guidelines for experienced journalists who are interviewing someone with a video camera for the first time. This is not TV news style; the reporter will never appear on camera, and the reporter’s voice will be edited out of the final version.
My students are required to use a tripod for interviews. [...]
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