I missed the live version of this, but here is a transcript of a Poynter News U online discussion about teaching students to tell stories using multimedia tools. Mindy McAdams is the guest. Good questions, good responses, and lots of helpful links.
NOTE: I have updated the list below and put it in a permanent spot on my Tutorials Page. — I read through my course evaluations from last semester and in addition to comments like “he’s long-winded, but nice enough,” a number of students gave high marks to the free Web tutorials I assigned in my [...]
Today, I stumbled upon a worthwhile interview with Brian Storm, the president of MediaStorm, in Nieman Reports. MediaStorm creates multimedia documentaries for news organizations like National Geographic, MSNBC, Slate and Reuters. They take on serious social issues like the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, families facing economic hardship in the rural Midwest, and [...]
Here are a few of the more substantive parts of my media diet this week: Joy of Less by Pico Iyer (NYTimes.com “Happy Days” blog) Iyer says that “the crazily accelerating roller-coaster of the 24/7 news cycle has propelled people up and down and down and up and then left them pretty much where they [...]
This past semester, I integrated the NYTimes.com multimedia series One in 8 Million: New York Characters in Sound and Images into the regular routine of my Online Journalism II course. When we started the semester, most of the students had limited experience recording and editing audio. Most had not taken a photojournalism course. And it [...]
The New Yorker Magazine cover drawn by Jorge Colombo on an iPhone got a lot of buzz, but personally I like the two recent covers by Dan Clowes.
Recently, I’ve encountered some convincing arguments that we may need an entirely new language for understanding and practicing journalism. A friend recommended I read a book called The Little Book of Contemplative Photography by Howard Zehr, a professor and documentary photographer who contends that the words and metaphors of photography – “taking a picture,” “shooting,” [...]
I’m finally reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. I’ll see the movie when I’m done with the book. On p. 51, Lopez comments about his process of becoming a columnist: I struggled with my first columns [at the Oakland Tribune], just as I did after moving on to the San Jose Mercury News and the [...]
I was recently on a panel with Jena Janovy, an editor at ESPN.com, who made a compelling case for long-form sports journalism on the Web. Janovy said that visitors to the Outside the Lines section often spend seven minutes or more on a single online feature. One of the most successful video documentaries on the [...]
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis Planet Google by Randall Stross Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save the World by Charlie Beckett
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