Let’s say you have a really good story idea, one that would be best told through sound and visuals. How do you get it published?
This is one of the most common questions I hear from freelancers, and one of the reasons why sites like Mediabistro and Freelance Success — both of which I used to [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Photojournalism, Tips + Techniques, video
Tagged: freelance, Meredith Birkett, MSNBC, MSNBC.com, multimedia
All stories can have a visual component, but some stories demand sound as well.
A couple weeks ago, seasoned multimedia pros Nancy Donaldson of The New York Times and Jim Seida of MSNBC.com spent three days running journalists through an intensive workshop to teach them how to gather and compose audio narratives.
Seida, who takes pride in [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips + Techniques
Tagged: audio, interviewing, Jim Seida, John Sawatsky, MediaStorm, MSNBC, multimedia, Nancy Donaldson, Terry Gross, The New York Times
One of the most common questions on the Web right now (at least among people in the U.S.), is “Where can I watch the presidential inauguration online?”
Not only will a live stream be on the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies site on Jan. 20, just about every media outlet is planning to air live [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: inaug09, inauguration, live stream, Obama, photos, The Washington Post, video
At yesterday’s “Creating Video Narratives” workshop at Beyond Bootcamp, Washington Post video journalist Travis Fox shared his 10 guidelines for making video reports.
Golden Rule 10: Get “X-roll.” X-roll is when you get your interviewee’s money quotes in their natural environment.
Golden Rule 9: Shoot within 180 degrees around a subject. In other words, don’t walk around [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: The Washington Post Company, Travis Fox, videojournalism
Day One of the Beyond Bootcamp information graphics workshop taught by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V. has been much less scary than I’d first thought.
Cairo’s lecture has been a model of organized thought and progressive structure, which should come as no surprise to anyone, given the nature of his work.
What’s also obvious is that the [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: Alberto Cairo, Beyond Bootcamp, books, graphics, information graphics, visualization
Do you remember what it was like to be in school? About 40 journalists are reliving the college experience at the University of Miami Beyond Bootcamp multimedia workshop, directed by visual journalism guru Rich Beckman.
Over the last few months, I’ve met a number of his former students who tell stories of being cajoled and terrified [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Photojournalism, video
Tagged: Beyond Bootcamp, Greg Linch, multimedia, Paige West, Rich Beckman, Rob Covey, University of Miami, workshop
Have you heard? Though most Americans still turn to TV to get national and international news, for the first time, the Web has overtaken newspapers as a news source.
In fact, according to a late December blog post by Nielsen Online, about two-thirds of all adults who were on the Web looked for news online in [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: Beyond Bootcamp, journalism school, Rich Beckman, The New York Times, University of Miami