Month: July 2010

The new journalism grad requirements

“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…

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Tools for mobile journalism

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…

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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…

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The 10 laws of multimedia

“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…

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A multi-platform reporter’s day

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…

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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…

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