Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
“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 a single-platform job and that means the “old formula” for finding a job is often not [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Take a mobile phone and a broadcast quality microphone and the world is your storybook.
That’s what multimedia guru Stephen Quinn believes. Quinn, who teaches at Deakin University in Australia, shared a bit of his enthusiasm about mobile journalism at the World Jounalism Education Conference in South Africa.
Quinn calls mobile phones a “Swiss army knife” option for journalists.
“They’re compact, light and discreet,” [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
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 cards? Would those stories be more interesting, engaging and authentic if they included other voices?
Maybe. [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2010 by Deborah Potter
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 day collecting information, pictures and sound seem to feel obliged to cram as much as [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
“To be great, multimedia has to make the story better than it would be in a legacy form,” Al Tompkins said.
To that end, Tompkins shared his 10 Laws of Multimedia with a group of educators at the Poynter Institute.
Law #1 Make it interactive
It gives control to the user, and with our interest in metrics, interactivity increases stickiness — basically the [...]
Filed under: 01. The Multimedia Mindset, 08. Producing for the Web | 7 Comments »
Posted on July 7th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Jacqueline Ingles says she is on continous deadline. The 26-year-old works for KXAN News, the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas. Ingles says she creates content for the Web and television daily.
“My typical day involves starting the morning reading multiple newspapers both online and in print. Then, I head into a morning meeting, typically via phone from my car [...]
Filed under: 02. Reporting the Story, 10. Delivering the News | 3 Comments »
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Deborah Potter
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 level of watchdog journalism. While watchdogs serve as independent monitors of power, he says, investigative [...]
Filed under: 04. Reporting in Depth | 2 Comments »