Multimedia – Page 23 – Visual Journalism

March 31, 2007

Online Journalism Workshops – Blogging, Photos for the Web and Audio

Three workshops, aimed at graduating students, to get you up to speed on “online journalism.” These are FREE! The official blurb: Grady College presents a series of workshops to sharpen your online skills. Three free sessions will be taught by Mark Johnson, Grady lecturer in journalism. Space is limited; register for any or all sessions. Register with Sophie Barnes in...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 29, 2007

Krystal on Campus

Krystal (a southern burger chain) came to Athens this week to shoot students for possible use in their TV and print ads. The Red & Black put together a short audio slide show and posted it this morning. (Scroll down, it’s at the end of the story.) Oddly, there was an Arby’s flier loaded with coupons stuck in the printed...

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia

March 28, 2007

New Eyetrack Study from the Poynter Institute

Eyetrack III is out – and it has some surprises. Readers are going deeper with online stories than print, something that is surprising. Go check it out, though the video isn’t working as of noon on Wednesday … grrr …

Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 26, 2007

UGA Student Work

The University of Georgia’s student news paper, the Red & Black, has posted two new multimedia slideshows. First up is a look at African Night 2007 through a dance program. B. Wuagneux, who shot and edited the piece, is in her second photojournalism class here. (There was an audio-assist by Tamara Best credited, too.) Next up is a look at...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 26, 2007

Chris Hondros talks about his award winning photo

Getty Images’ Chris Hondros has done nine trips to Iraq since the way started and the most memorable image came in January 2005 when troops shot into a civilian car. In an interview with National Public Radio’s Renee Montagne, he talks about the sequence of events and the iconic photo of a child crying out at the feet of a...

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 20, 2007

Southern Short Course in News Photography – April 13-15

The 2007 edition of the Southern Short Course in News Photography is skedded for April 13-15 in Chattannooga, Tenn. There are a lot of sessions on multimedia storytelling this year, along with sessions on portfolio building and critiques, sports photography, career advancement and building respect. And on top of that, the speakers will include Lisa Krantz, Region 8 Photographer of...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Photojournalism

March 19, 2007

Wrestling – with GREAT natural sounds

The Cherry Hill (N.J.) Courier-Post’s Marcin Szczepanski has put together a four-part (three audio slide shows, one video) look at Camden Catholic High School’s wrestling team. The audio in the second slide show (“Sweat and Sacrifice”) is really well done. Now … when you go to the individual slide shows (done in SoundSlides), they are not embedded in the sites...

Good Work/Multimedia

March 16, 2007

Another recorder option

Mindy McAdams posted my suggestions on cheap audio equipment over on her blog (which you SHOULD BE READING), but another new recorder is out there you may be interested in. Word is the Roanoke, Va., newspaper has been using the Samson H4 Handy Recorder with some success. Has XLR jacks for microphones, which is a big plus, and it stores...

Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 15, 2007

Crisis in Darfur Expands – WashingtonPost.com video

Backpack journalist Travis Fox has posted a new series of videos and panoramic images from Darfur. Well worth spending some time with. I like the interface and the image quality is very high. Al Tompkins at the Poynter Institute has posted a brief interview about how the stories were shot, as well.

Good Work/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

March 13, 2007

Pictures of the Year International winners

Judging has wrapped up on the 64th annual POYi competition and there are links to winners on their site. You have to poke around a bit to find the multimedia winners, but if you go to Complete Winners List, then scroll down to category 39 you’ll see the links. (POYi is one of the two big photojournalism competitions in the...

Multimedia/Photojournalism

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