‘Tutorials’ Archive

Multimedia Journalism Tutorials – Updated List

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 [...]

Teaching Audio Slide Shows and Soundslides

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 [...]

Audio Editing Tutorials for Beginners

Over the next few months I’ll be rolling out a series of screencasts for use in my online journalism classes. I hope these allow students to learn at their own pace and help the students who are absent on the days we cover the material. I hope others outside of my classroom also find them [...]

Resources for Teaching Digital Journalism

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 [...]

Tips on Telling an Untold Story

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 [...]

Archived Chat: How Do I Teach Students to Integrate Multimedia Tools into Storytelling?

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.

Helpful Online Journalism Tutorials for Beginners

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 [...]