Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Deb Wenger
Newspapers and Web sites around the country recently made a serious mistake. They ran an altered photograph of an Iranian missile launch. According to the Photo District News Web site: “The problematic image was distributed by Agence France Presse, which said it obtained the photo from Sepah News, the house organ of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Video [...]
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
You know about Twitter. You’re already LinkedIn. But do you “Summize?” Tom Cheredar of NewAssignment.net thinks you should. Summize–a search engine that collects Twitter updates–is tops on his list of “silly Web applications” that belong in a journalist’s tool box. He also recommends: Seero.com, which combines video with Google Maps. FriendFeed for Smart Phones, [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
“Coincidence or Cluster,” an investigation by the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois, proves you don’t have to be a big news organization to make an online splash. The small-circulation daily put together a meaty online version of its six-part series on a suspected brain cancer cluster in nearby McCullom Lake, including videos, an interactive [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
Strong visuals, great nat sound, a fast-paced sequence: they’re all good ways to open a story. Talking heads? Not. As online videographer Colin Mulvaney points out, it’s important to let the viewer know right away that your video is worth watching: Online viewers are a fickle bunch, where the click of a mouse button will [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Deb Wenger
The Online News Association is behind the re-launch of a site devoted to showcasing multimedia journalism. According to ONA president Jonathan Dube, Interactive Narratives is worth checking out. The new Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling around the country and the world. The goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
The explosion of online video has raised lots of questions about copyright and fair use. When is it legal to post a chunk of someone else’s video for free? What about the entire work? Can you mashup, remix or alter someone else’s video without penalty? Today, the Center for Social Media at American University is [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
The best photojournalists often talk about “moments” in their stories–specific shots or sounds that highlight turning points or discoveries. Scott Jensen, director of photography at KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, is a master of the “moment.” Jensen is this year’s winner of the NPPA TV news photographer of the year award–for the second time–and as Beth [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2008 by Deborah Potter
Back in the old days when I worked at CBS News, the standards manual clearly prohibited the use of music in news stories unless it was captured at the scene. If we did use music, we had to show the source–video of the band playing, the car radio, whatever. These days, there’s music all over [...]
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