This is a must for print reporters struggling to adapt to a multimedia world. There is a free online course on NewsU on the basics of audio reporting and editing. The course was put together by Andrew DeVigal, multimedia editor for The New York Times. As the course notes say: Sound plays a vital role in online and broadcast journalism, and good audio results from a deliberate process of planning,
PDF Here is further proof why journalism schools should be preparing students for a multiplatform, multimedia world – a letter from a J-School student about his internship at the Smithsonian magazine. This extract sums it up: Online is the way to go. Here at Smithsonian magazine everything is going in that direction. They ask their writers/freelancers to submit multimedia ideas and ask their sources if they have anything they can put
This cartoon neatly sums up the situation in many newsrooms: From Daryl Cagle via Cagle Cartoons. Print
The folks at Multimedia Shooter have put together a useful guide for journalists dipping their toes into the world of multiplatform reporting. The starter kit offers advice on audio and video equipment, as well as on software tools, with links to guides. It is a must-read for any journalist who is interested in taking advantage of the many ways stories can be told across media. Print
Paul Bradshaw from the University of Central England Birmingham had his students do an interesting exercise in class at the start of a module in online journalism. He gave his students 20 minutes to write a blog entry on why they needed online journalism skills. As you can imagine, there was a wide range of entries – links to the student blogs are on his blog. One thing that stood
As a professor of multiplatform journalism, I spent a lot of time thinking about the skills our students will need when they graduate in 2008. Ryan Sholin from the Santa Cruz Sentinel has some great advice for budding reporters. This is what he is looking for: I would want someone who knows enough HTML to write their own web update into a content management system without needing training. I would
As a former BBC journalist now teaching multiplatform journalism in Canada, I am struck by the attitudes of students to new media. Some embrace the potential wholeheartedly, while others are more circumspect. Mindy McAdams highlights this issue in a post about the response to an earlier entry about getting a job in journalism. Some of the journalism students who commented on her post are harking back to the days of
A heads-up to everyone who is interested in the changes taking place in journalism. Harvard University’s Neiman Foundation for Journalism has released the winter 2006 issue of Neiman Reports, entitled “Goodbye Gutenberg.” There is a rich wealth of material on how the impact the internet is having on journalism. Having read just a couple of the articles, this struck me from Jon Palfreman’s piece: Before the Web, storytelling was platform
The world of multimedia, multiplatform journalism should be creating a wave of new jobs in the media. Instead, established media organisations are retrenching, with Time being the latest. It is cutting 289 jobs – 172 from the editorial side and 117 from the business side across all its magazines, including Time and People. The job losses are needed to help Time “move quickly into a future of flexible, multiplatform content,”
The BBC has published the service licences that bind the controllers of the BBC’s eight TV channels, 16 radio services, its website, interactive service and digital education service. The licences are set by the BBC Trust, the new independent body responsible for governing the corporation, and come into effect at the start of 2007. The online service licence makes for interesting reading. The phrasing implies that the Trust sees the