Audio – Visual Journalism

August 8, 2012

On Interviewing

Greg Scoblete has a great piece up on Photo District News about interviewing for video and audio, well worth a read. Will be sharing this with all my students this fall. (Thanks to Curt Chandler for the link.)

Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism/Video

May 23, 2012

NPR Creates Team to Build News Apps

Steve Myers at the Poynter Institute on NPR putting a big bet on news applications, hiring a team of seven to build them. Man, I wish I knew how to code …

Journalism/Multimedia

April 18, 2012

Transom Story Workshop Opens Application Period

If I had eight weeks, I would totally do this … the Transom Story Workshop is a two month long radio storytelling workshop in Woods Hole, Mass. I met Rob Rosenthal, the lead teacher for this, at the NPPA’s Northern Short Course and would love to spend more time learning from him – he’s one of those guys who understands...

Advice & Learning/Business & Industry

October 5, 2011

Great Audio Piece from NPR

NPR’s Zoe Chace has a story this morning on the protesters who are taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement. It’s an inside look at how they communicate, how they make decisions – and it flows so nicely, really seamless editing on this piece. Worth a listen.

Craft/Journalism

September 3, 2011

The Sky Cowboys

Great piece by Damon Winter for the New York Times on ironworkers changing the skyline of New York. Beautifully shot, but pay close attention to the audio work – he layering of sounds, the pacing of the voices, the tight, tight editing … all done by one of my former classmates, Pamela Chen. You could close your ideas and still...

Craft/Journalism/Multimedia/Photojournalism

September 2, 2011

The Challenge of Mixing Audio and Photography

Olivier Laurent has a great piece up on the British Journal of Photography about the art and craft of using audio with photography, one of the best intellectual looks at it I’ve seen.

Craft/Photojournalism/Tech Talk

August 29, 2011

Over at the Gear Geek …

This week over at the NPPA’s Gear Geek blog I’m talking about the Levelator – a great chunk of free software to help you even out your audio.

Multimedia/Tech Talk

April 4, 2011

Reporting on the Radio with an iPhone – Only

Over on Mediashift, Neal Augenstein has a write-up of his year working with just an iPhone. He’s a reporter for WTOP in Washington, D.C., and has been recording all of his audio on it, as well as editing it, for broadcast. He’s listed the software and workflows for how he handles photos, video and live broadcasts, too – good info...

Audio/Journalism/Tech Talk

November 11, 2010

Audio Editor Option

Mindy McAdams, the Flash Goddess, had a tweet up about this Transom review of the Hindenburg audio editor. May be worth looking at as an alternative to Audacity, our standard tool here. Anyone played with it? Thoughts? Comments? Someone going to try it?

Audio/Tech Talk

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

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