Ryan Sholin

Tag: multimedia

  • Video Journal :: spokesmanreview.com

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    The Spokesman-Review’s videoblog/multimedia page also serves as a behind-the scenes photoblog. Check out the “Finding the Frame” entry on getting shots of Comet McNaught this week. Video Journal :: spokesmanreview.com

  • The next step after multimedia and interactivity? Just add data.

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    When I find myself face to screen with an online news site that is still in the Nightly Shovelware Posting stage, I think of two things: How can I add multimedia to this, and how can I add interactivity to this. I think a lot of us go the same route, especially those with more…

  • Joe Weiss talks to Poynter about Soundslides

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    Joe Weiss, the photojournalist/programmer behind Soundslides, tells Poynter all about it: “I think that if you just started to do them, the audio slideshow is gonna take about four or five times what it would have taken just to do the assignment visually. … I think what we’re seeing in the industry right now, is…

  • Last Night parade – December 31, 2006

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    My second Soundslides attempt went much better, for those of you keeping score. All location audio, recorded by me, no script, and a deadline of whenever I wanted to go home for New Year’s Eve. Last Night parade – December 31, 2006

  • My first Soundslides BBQ

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    I had a lot of help on this, so don’t give me too much credit/blame. What I could use is some feedback. Check it out here.

  • Job opening in Roanoke

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    Want to work with an all-star award-winning online and multimedia journalism team for a daily that’s big enough to have lots of resources but small enough that you get to get your hands dirty as the lead developer on some projects? Go to Roanoke. From Seth Gitner, the multimedia editor at the Roanoke Times in…

  • Required Reading: Rob Curley in Fast Company

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    If you haven’t found the time to read this article about hyperlocal/multimedia journalism rockstar Rob Curley yet, now’s the time. That’s right. Stop what you’re doing, hit that link, and get some ideas: “He was also tackling one of the industry’s toughest problems: how to engage the elusive 18- to 24-year-old set. His team did…

  • 10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

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    Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention. Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was…

  • Career paths of glory

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    (Just thinking out loud here…) There’s the multimedia producer version, where I keep learning Flash and web design until I can get myself a job putting together interactive graphics and training others to do it. Extra points here for my video editing skills and general understanding of visual style. Those four years of film school…

  • How to get ahead in the newsroom

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    Steve Outing in E&P: “What seems to be becoming the norm in newsrooms these days is that a growing group of reporters, photographers and editors are now working in jobs where there’s a wide variety of tasks to be done each day: feeding the newspaper’s Web site; writing for blogs and interacting with blog readers;…