Here is the list of online classes, instructional videos, and handouts that I am using in my multimedia reporting workshop (officially titled Online Journalism 2) at Rowan University this fall. Tutorial 1: Finding a Good Story and Telling It Listen to This American Life’s “Rest Stop Episode” Watch Ira Glass talk about the elements of [...]
The audio slide show – a multimedia piece that combines audio and still photos – is a standard format in most newsrooms and journalism classrooms. And Soundslides, a program created by Joe Weiss, is the standard program used to create them. Soundslides is so easy to use that it does not require hours of step-by-step [...]
I recently picked up a copy of Multimedia Journal by Richard Koci Hernandez. The book came out in 2008, but I couldn’t find a review of it, so I thought I’d write about it here. Multimedia Journal is not the typical online journalism book. It is only 60 pages long, measures 7” x 7”, and [...]
A lot of resources on teaching interactive journalism have been circulating around the Web recently. Here are some I found valuable: Multimedia Standards, a University of Miami class project on multimedia journalism standards John Temple blogs the MediaStorm Methodology Workshop (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) and post-workshop reflection Ten steps [...]
YouTube recently launched a project called The Reporters’ Center, a series of how-to interviews with reporters, editors, and media professionals. There are plenty of big names like Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and Arianna Huffington. And there are some helpful technical tutorials like how to capture breaking news on a cell phone, how to shoot a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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