Category: Media
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Telling the most important story in Oakland
This is WAY more than your average homicide map. Whoever put this together (I’m working on finding out who to credit) went to great deal of effort to tell what I’ll call the most important story in Oakland using multimedia, interactivity, and data.
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USA Today redesign: Nice function, not enough form
Notes from my first glance at USAToday.com’s redesign.
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I wouldn’t give Drudge that much credit
But if he did cause last week’s Wall Street sell-off with a single headline, then it makes a darn good case study for someone working on theory about things like “informational cascades.”
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The best way to understand blogging
…is to blog, says Howard Owens. The oft-repeated adage that “blogs wouldn’t have anything to write about if mainstream media didn’t do all the reporting” is quickly getting outdated. Don’t believe me?
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Every newspaper’s killer app is going to be different
This is pretty basic, but it’s something I’ve been trying to get at recently: Every newspaper’s push into online innovation (Multimedia, Interactivity, Data) is going to be different, based on its resources (time, money, staff) and community (size, age, attitude). That should be obvious enough, right? What might work for a national paper like the…
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Bits and pieces of what I’ve been up to at work
As pointed out elsewhere, it’s no fair critiquing other people’s work without throwing some of my own out there, so here’s the short tour of what I’ve been working on: Wild Life: The subject of the story shot the photos, the reporter recorded the audio, I produced the html/css page and the series of one-slide…
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The full effect: Shooting, packaging and telling a multimedia story
I believe one of the goals multimedia storytelling should be to communicate in a web-native format, using stills, audio, video, graphics, and interactivity to draw readers into a story they wouldn’t have read if it were just printed text on a page — or a screen. Would I have any interest in this train story…
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How quickly can newspaper video grow up?
We’re babes in the digital woods. It’s our freshman year at film school, the first day of junior high TV Studio class, and our first hour off the plane in a country whose language we’ve only spoken in a classroom. We’re making newspaper video. Are we doing it right? Would we be able to tell…
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Color me ridiculously busy, because I think precious little is not my job
Yeah, so it’s been a little slow here, but thanks to all the readers, commenters, and linkers who have kept that New Journalism Skillset post kicking all week, especially the Italians, who might not know that io posso parlare un po d’italiano, perche sono sposato con una bella donna che e mezza-italiana. Some of the…