By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
I think the absence of high-up, home page play for Flash graphics represents a missed opportunity. News organizations could use compelling interactive graphics to make their site a real daily destination — and differentiate themselves from Google News.
The first step in using Flash strategically is to admit that Flash projects take time. The same can [...]
There’s more to this brave new world of journalism than technology skills.
Business sense will play a large role in the rest of your career, whether you are a journalism student or a seasoned veteran.
If journalism students graduate without an understanding of how editorial, business, and technology work together, “you have not prepared them for the [...]
Previously: Part 1 (Introduction to the Sun) and Part 2 (What They Do)
While they’re shooting tons of video and chasing breaking news, the journalists at the Las Vegas Sun also manage to produce some darned impressive large projects. I blogged about their way-cool Flight Delay Calculator in April — it’s a data-driven interactive graphic that [...]
Last fall I blogged about the choice between a MiniDV video camera and the new tapeless models (Tape vs. hard drive vs. card, and AVCHD). The AVCHD format poses some challenges if you are trying to work with older video editing software and/or older computers. However, the prospect of going tapeless (and having faster file [...]
A spring 2008 graduate of our journalism program got a job as an editorial producer with MLB.com. That means he gets paid to watch baseball and write about it. Sweet, no?
So to help out other journalism students, Nick Rosinia wrote this — “The ‘How to Watch Baseball All Day and Get Paid Handsomely (Well, Not [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
Yesterday I had a conversation with a reporter whose news organization has committed to forming a new Web/digital team. His questions made me think about how undefined this work still is, on the whole.
He asked whether there is any book or Web site that explains the differences among all the job titles he’s encountered — [...]
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