Ira Glass broke a lot of newswriting rules when he first started the radio show that would become the wildly popular weekly series, “This American Life.”
His stories weren’t fact-supplemental fact-quote or soundbite from a source, but anecdotes told the way broadcast instructors always urge: like you were telling your friends something fascinating.
If you like the [...]
Categories: Tips + Techniques, video
Tagged: Human Interest, Ira Glass, This American Life
This weekend several members and supporters of the Society for News Design met to rethink and rebuild its multifaceted website. The site will have a new look, new features and better integration among its many parts.
Chris Amico’s Tools for News is now part of the SND.org website. You’ll find it at toolkit.snd.org.
William Couch is comping [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips + Techniques
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