The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy. Print
PDF As 2008 draws to a close, reviews of the year and predictions of the year to come are a common feature. Poynter have put together a useful guide to multimedia projects that you may have missed in 2008. The list is US-dominated but also includes the award-winning Talking to the Taliban project by Canada’s Globe and Mail. Minnesota Public Radio continues to make games for smart people. This year, with
My latest column on PBS Mediashift looks at how to teach multimedia journalism in the classroom. This means that journalists need to think on different levels as they conceive of a story and its treatment. It involves taking a multifaceted approach to a story and working out how best to tell it with the media available. The attraction for journalists is the ability to tell a story in multiple ways,
US newspapers don’t appear to be making the most of multimedia. A study from Missouri Western State University presented at the Convergence and Society conference in South Carolina found that the US press lagged behind the UK. The study, by Prof Robert Bergland, together with his students, Lisa Crawford, Sarah Noe, & Melody Ellsworth, studied 360 newspapers in the US, chosen at random. Here’s what they found: Video: 65% (97%
Spain made a big impresson at the Online News Association awards, picking up the two awards that non-English websites were eligible for. Elpais.com took the newly created award for general excellence by a large non-English site. Its compatriot, Soitu.es, won the general excellence title for small site. One is an example of how a print newspaper is reinventing itself online. The other is a an independent, web-only new site, just
A posting for an internship at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper and its website for a multimedia intern reads a lot like the job description for a 21st century journalist. The ad reads: This new position is for a multidisciplined and flexible multimedia journalist who can generate and execute multimedia ideas. Ideal candidates will be able to hit the ground running and juggle all types of content and content mediums
Chris Lloyd, assistant managing editor of the Telegraph Media Group, reflects on a year of change at the newspaper. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1072727&w=425&h=350&fv=] Shot on a Nokia N95 at the Online Journalism Symposium in Austin, Texas Print
One of the big changes in the media has been a shift towards online video, particularly by newspapers, and this is emerging as a major battleground for audiences online. Research by Neil Thurman and Ben Lupton of City University, London, showed that editors are keen to embrace new technologies such as video and see them as a part of the future of news. Print
For my talk on multiplatform science reporting for the Knight science journalism symposium, I prepared a cheatsheet on how to successfully produce a multimedia story. It goes over the need for planning, collaboration, innovation and interaction, and offers some tips on the use of video and data. Download the cheatsheet here (PDF) Print
Audio slideshows have become a standard feature of many news websites, largely due to Soundslides by Joe Weiss. For the uninitiated, Soundslides is a easy-to-use tool to produce still image and audio presentations in Flash, without the need for coding skills. This is just as well, as only one of my journalism students has any experience of Flash. But this is the way it should be. Being a multimedia journalist