Multimedia – Page 11 – Visual Journalism

January 29, 2010

The Setting Sun of Las Vegas

It’s a little odd that Flash Goddess Mindy McAdams tweeted a link to this story about the rise and fall of the Las Vegas Sun while I’m in, of all places, Las Vegas. Worth a read. My initial reaction is similar to what I thought of Curley’s work in Florida and Washington – one model won’t work everywhere. What was...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia

January 16, 2010

Failing Faster (and Multimedia!)

I spent the last few days at the University of Tennessee participating in the Intercollegiate Online News Network’s second conference. ICONN looks to bring journalism educators and students together to work out what’s next in journalism. (Everyone kept saying “online journalism,” but I think our problems run deeper than that.) There are a lot of ideas still rumbling around in...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

December 28, 2009

Rules and Lessons

There have been few multimedia sessions I’ve attended at conferences that affected me as much as seeing Richard Koci Hernandez at the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar a few years ago. None. So when he wrote a book, I bought it. And when he tells me there are rules and lessons for learning multimedia, even though I’ve heard them all before, I...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

November 25, 2009

How Do I Survive in Journalism? (podcast)

As our spring photojournalism workshop drew to a close, we put some of our editors around the table and asked them the questions every student wanted asked – what’s next? What do I need to know to get a job? Where are those jobs? What do I do to survive? Walt Stricklin, Director of Photography at the Birmingham News, Minla Shields,...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

November 24, 2009

On Online Video (podcast)

Up next in our series of podcasts is a talk about the role of video online and how traditional print publications are, can and should move towards it. Guests include Walt Stricklin, Director of Photography at the Birmingham News, Dave Labelle, author and former photojournalism professor, Minla Shields, the former Senior Editor for Planning at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mike Haskey, Columbus...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

November 23, 2009

On Backpack Journalism (podcast)

Continuing with the conversations we had during our March photojournalism workshop, this one on “backpack journalism,” also known as “mojos” for mobile journalists. Most refer to it as “one man bands.” We hear from Walt Stricklin, Director of Photography at the Birmingham News, Jon Samuels, staff photojournlaist at WXIA in Atlanta, John Curry, Visuals Director at the Augusta Chronicle, Minla...

At Work/Audio/Business & Industry/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

November 18, 2009

6×6 – 36 Tips to Make You a Better Multimedia Storyteller

Stolen, quite simply, from Richard Koci Hernadez’s Multimedia Shooter site – Adam Westbrook gives you six tips in six areas that will help improve your skills and your stories. The video section sums up what I try to teach so nicely I may not need to teach it anymore.

Audio/Craft/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

November 18, 2009

Getting Online Video to Work

Two posts online this morning, each linked in content … first up is the Poynter Institute’s Regina McCombs talking about what works in the online video realm. Her assessment mirrors my favorite response to students, “It depends.” Based on the questions that lead to that post, Chuck Fadley at MiamiHerald.com talks about what has worked there, which comes down to...

Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk/Thoughts & Theory/Video

November 16, 2009

DigitalJournalist.org to be Unplugged?

Say it isn’t so … but Dirck Halstead, who has run the Digital Journalist online magazine for a dozen years, has informed his readers that the site may go dormant after December’s issue. Long-time sponsor Canon has withdrawn its financial support, but he’s hoping to keep it alive through PayPal donations. Halstead was on of the pioneers of online, non-broadcast...

Multimedia/Tech Talk/Video

September 11, 2009

Football, with a Twist

My good friend Scott Bryant at the Statesboro (Ga.) Herald sent along a link to an audio slide show he did on the first Georgia Southern game of the season. He said he’d been asked to get more fans into the paper and didn’t want to do just another gallery of cheering people. But what do you think? Does it...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

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