Tech Talk – Page 62 – Visual Journalism

August 6, 2008

"The Girl in the Window"

Lane DeGregory and Melissa Lyttle, of the St. Petersburg Times, have published the horrifying story of Dani, a seven year old feral girl – essentially abandoned in her own home – and the efforts of a family to help her. Steve Myers of the Poynter Institute has an interview with Lyttle and DeGregory about the story and how they approached...

Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

July 30, 2008

A 14 Year Journey

Scott Strazzante and MediaStorm have published his story looking at the transition of a farm into a sub-division, as told through the farm’s family and one of the new home’s families. It is awesome. The story is great, it is well told and it is beautifully shot. Every time I tell my students to shoot more, I will now have...

Audio/Craft/Good Work/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

June 29, 2008

Joint Grady College-Greenville News Project

As some of you know, we did a Maymester multimedia journalism course that was a joint project with the Greenville (S.C.) News. The News reached out to us a year ago and has been offering a lot of informational support, particularly to our multimedia classes. The managing editor there, Chris Weston, came to me in the fall and asked about...

Journalism/Multimedia/Tech Talk

May 15, 2008

Newly Minted Multimedia Journalists

Rusty Bailey, who’s at the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune this summer as a multimedia intern, sent along a link to his first solo video – and a spot news piece, to boot. And Sara Guevara, in her first week on staff at the Gainesville (Ga.) Times shot a piece on a new business. But not just any new business – this...

At Work/Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

May 4, 2008

Make Your Own Documentary

PBS’ NOVA program has done something stunning – they’re releasing all of the raw video footage from their Car of the Future program. You can download it and re-edit the show. Ever wanted to make a documentary about ecology and car culture? Here’s your stock footage. No commercial usage, but that’s okay by me. For all of the multimedia students...

Advice & Learning/Multimedia/Tech Talk

April 18, 2008

One for the Soon-To-Be-Graduates

Lisa Williams over at the Idea Lab has a post on the “10 Things Journalists Should Know About Surviving in a High-Tech Industry.” It took me a moment with thinking of “journalism” as a “high-tech industry,” but it is. A lot of the insane things dot-commers were doing a decade ago we’re doing now … a decade late. Don’t know...

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April 15, 2008

Exhaustion

That’s what I’m still feeling, but it’s a good thing. This past weekend was our Third Annual UGA Photojournalism Weekend Workshop, this year based here in Athens. Visiting editor Mike Roy, from the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal, with help from USA Today’s Katye Martens and the Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier’s Sarah Bates, put together a video on the weekend’s activities....

Advice & Learning/Good Work/Tech Talk

March 31, 2008

Flip Ultra vs. Canon HD

David Pogue at the New York Times pointed this out … Kirk Mastin, from the University of Washington, shot a story on a Canon high definition camera and a Flip Ultra, then edited them exactly the same way in Final Cut Pro … and the results are, well, surprising … It is not the gear, folks. It is the story.

Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 27, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Goes … Mainframe?

There’s a word you don’t here much anymore. Mainframe. It dates back to the time when all computing was done on a centralized machine and you fed information into it via either punch cards or “dumb terminals.” The 1980s saw the explosion of the desktop computer and, since then, every 18 months computing power has doubled for the same cost....

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