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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
After a tornado wiped out a third of a nearby town on Memorial Day, the Des Moines Register created an interactive map on its Web site that lets users “see the breathtaking scope of the disaster house-by-house, with photos and…
