OK, this is our second year of tracking this and the question still remains: Why are local TV stations nowhere to be found on the list of Online Journalism Award nominees? I mean really, when the AARP is winning more awards for great video than local TV stations, it may just be time to hang it [...]
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Improv actors, a soundtrack and very little text. Is this the future of online journalism?
Consider what staid old Fortune magazine has been doing lately, in collaboration with the online magazine Flyp Media. Flyp has turned some of Fortune’s editorial content into imaginative multimedia features, like this piece on the Bernie Madoff investment scam. Fortune executive [...]
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Surveys often lead to fascinating stories, but the data behind them can be hard to convey in an interesting way. The recent Pew Forum report on religion in American life is a classic example.
The survey found that more than half of Americans say religion is very important in their daily lives, attend religious services [...]
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Maps can show the scope of a story in a way that words and pictures alone cannot. The New York Times has produced a simple map that shows the impact of unemployment across the country, county-by-county. Roll-over boxes show how the unemployment rate has changed from a year ago.
As the caption notes and the map [...]
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In TV news, natural sound is the other part of every picture–even if the sound is silence. You have to capture it by getting a mic close enough to pick up good quality ambient sound. Then you have to use it, up full or under narration and sound bites. It’s important, because while video can [...]
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The Washington Post is already up with a very cool interactive map and timeline of President Obama’s inauguration. TimeSpace lets users “experience the events of Inauguration Day through photos, video and text from specific locations.”
Students from the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism are helping with the Post coverage. According to the school, all [...]
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Here’s one year-in-review list you won’t want to toss out with the empties on New Year’s Day. Poynter’s Regina McCombs has posted links to multimedia projects you may have missed and they’re well worth exploring.
Her categories include map-based storytelling like the Iowa tornado coverage we mentioned here, as well as interactive graphics, video interactives and [...]
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The judges have spoken, and the Online News Association has named its 2008 award winners. As my colleague Deb Wenger pointed out in an earlier post, there were few broadcast finalists. In the end, only one of them won. CNN.com took the award for general excellence (large site). The judges called it “one of the [...]
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The Online News Association has once again released its nominees for the annual Online Journalism Awards. The complete list can be found on the ONA site, but we’ve included links to the finalists’ entries for breaking news, overall excellence, multimedia features, online video presentation and student journalism.
For broadcasters, it’s disturbing to note how few radio or TV news outlets are [...]
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A quiet revolution is underway at NBC News. Earlier this month, a story about a baby penguin that was created originally for the Web aired on the weekend Nightly News. Tim Peek, executive producer for new media at NBC’s Peacock Productions, calls it “one of those small events that may well mark a [...]
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