“We’ve gone beyond online, print and TV – every job seems to be a multi-platform position,” says Crystal Lauderdale, Video & Multimedia Product Manager at New York Times Company, Regional Media Group. Lauderdale says we’ll probably never go back to the days of…
Month: July 2010
Tools for mobile journalism
Interviewing “real people”
Too many stories depend almost entirely on officials for information and sound bites. Watch a newscast or read a news site on any given day and notice who gets to talk. Are most of them people with titles and business…
Find your focus, already!
Have you ever watched a television news story or read something in print or online and wondered afterwards what on earth it was about? It happens all too often when stories have no focus. Reporters who spend much of their…
The 10 laws of multimedia
A multi-platform reporter’s day
Watchdog vs. investigative reporting
In an age when almost any kind of story can be trumpeted as “investigative,” it’s worth asking what really distinguishes investigations from everyday reporting. Wally Dean, director of training for the Committee of Concerned Journalists, says investigations are a higher…