If you are the person sitting in the newsroom and thinking, “I’ve got to learn this multimedia stuff!” — your big question is, “Where do I begin?” This post is designed to help you make a decision and get started. First, what is your main skillset? Are you a print reporter, a print photographer or [...]
Here’s a story package about a very important topic: Last Chance: Saving Louisiana’s Coast, from The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. There are two multimedia components. First, the slideshow (made with Soundslides) represents a one-man effort by staff photographer Ted Jackson, according to the credits at the end. Many of the pictures are stunningly beautiful, and [...]
The awesome team of Rodrigo del Castillo and Alberto Cuadra at the Houston Chronicle has a new graphic online: Tasers & Justice in Houston (thanks, Angela!). While the subject matter is not as interesting to me as the team’s earlier Stoves for Guatemala, it’s quite exciting to see such masterly 3-D work and design at [...]
An awful lot of people have asked me, “How long does it take to learn Flash?” It’s a fair question — I mean, I understand why they want to know — but it’s almost impossible to answer. I think there are highly motivated people who are already fluent in a complex program, such as Photoshop [...]
Mark Johnson teaches photojournalism at the University of Georgia, and let me tell you, he and his students are ON FIRE. Last October, they were not doing any multimedia in his classes. Now they’re gathering and editing their own audio, making Soundslides and just basically drinking all the Kool-Aid they can get their hands on. [...]
I was thinking about this as I read the prepared statement of Tim Berners-Lee to the U.S. Congress, which he presented as testimony to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet last week. Is the Internet “successful”? According to Berners-Lee (he invented the Web; I hope you already knew that): The lesson from the proliferation [...]
I have to agree with Ryan Sholin’s critique of the new USAToday.com — I like white space too, but this looks a bit empty to me. Maybe that’s just because it’s Saturday. The lack of attention to information graphics really bothers me. This site comes from a newspaper that’s big, big, BIG on infographics. So [...]