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
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
Drew DeVigal’s Interactive Narratives has relaunched.
The site is a searchable database “designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling around the country and the world.”
Register, and you can submit your own work, as well as vote on and critique others’ multimedia projects.
“Our goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging storytelling, and eye-popping design in [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, Photojournalism, Tips & Tools
Tagged: andrewdevigal, audio, database, drewvigal, interactive, multimedia, search, video