Multimedia – Page 17 – Visual Journalism

March 4, 2008

Guests

I try to bring as many guests into my classroom as possible. For starters, this is an excellent way to decrease the amount of time I need to prepare for any given class … I kid, of course. In reality, I bring folks in to offer up different perspectives, to help flush out something that I’ve discussed or to add...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

February 5, 2008

I Play With … Stuff

For the Multimedia Journalism class, my students will be producing multimedia autobiographies today. They’ve been playing with audio and web design, today they get SoundSlides. Because I still haven’t produced enough audio slide shows (I mean, who has?), I decided to do another so I had examples and samples. I scanned images at home last night (after digging through several...

Advice & Learning/Audio/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

February 1, 2008

WooWho!! The Red & Black Goes Multimedia in a Big Way

They have dabbled, they have played. They have experimented. Now, they’ve figured out some stuff … In Wednesday’s edition, they broke a story about a faculty member with a history of sexual harassment charges having been filed against him, dating back almost 20 years. They also created an infographic timeline that ran on page one. Online they posted the documents...

Audio/Good Work/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 22, 2008

Twenty Days, Twenty Thousand Photos

Turned into one video by the Toronto Star’s Lucas Oleniuk. You can question its journalistic objectivity, I suppose, but … wow.

Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

January 14, 2008

Guest Speaker Jim Stovall – Thursday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m.

Professor Jim Stovall will describe the Tennessee Journalist, the student news web site he created at the University of Tennessee. Prof. Stovall was the brainchild behind Dateline Alabama and runs JProf.com, as well. He’ll be here to talk with us about student news web sites and is a jack-of-all-codes, so to speak, and can help us think about what we’re...

Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Graphic Design/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 12, 2008

"Through the Lens of Loss"

Mark Saxenmeyer, from the Chicago Fox affiliate, has posted a “director’s cut” of a story that aired in December looking at photographers who work with the families of critically ill children. It’s not photojournalism, but it certainly is documentary photography.

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 11, 2008

"Uprooted: Flicks Mobile Home Park"

This piece, shot by the San Jose Mercury News’ Dai Sugano, on a mobile home park that’s being closed so the land can be redeveloped, is amazingly well done. The story, pacing and tone all match perfectly – it is, to be honest, hard to watch in some places because of the emotions at play. You’ll need some time –...

Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

January 7, 2008

The TRUE story of Dixville Notch

Okay, we should not be proud of this story of the press manipulating time for their own means … but it’s a great story. Bill Greene at the Boston Globe takes a look at how Dixville Notch, N.H., garnered its “first in the nation” reputation for primary voting. For what it’s worth, I did the Dixville Notch shoot for Agence...

At Work/Business & Industry/Good Work/Multimedia/Tech Talk

December 20, 2007

DotCom go BOOM*

Okay, this started as something fun … The Richter Scales posted a paradoy song and video about the second coming of the Internet bubble. It’s catchy, it’s funny (especially for those of us who sort-of survived the first bubble) … and the original apparently used some copyrighted material without the permission of the owner. I started to scan through the...

Ethics & Legal/Multimedia/Tech Talk