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Mindy McAdams has developed a great new teaching tool for Flash called the Simple Flash Project: Single SWF. You can download the FLA and use it to learn basic Flash. - more
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Mindy McAdams has developed a great new teaching tool for Flash called the Simple Flash Project: Single SWF. You can download the FLA and use it to learn basic Flash. - more
Two television news professionals have teamed up to launch a specialty online news channel called StoryBridge.tv. Former anchor Katy Sai and news photographer Jay Olsen created the free site to bring people more in-depth video stories. This site has a great feel and the videos are examples of great storytelling.
The Online News Association has put out their last call for the 2007 Online Journalism Awards entries. Honors include the Knight Award for Public Service, Breaking News, Specialty Journalism, Online Beat Reporting, Outstanding Use of Digital Media, Online Commentary and more. The program is sponsored by The ONA and the Annenberg School for Communication at [...]
From Beet.TV:
Thumbnails Are Huge in Video Search and Pixsy Hopes to Finger the Industry
Thumbnails are becoming pervasive on search results pages of Google, Ask, Yahoo! and on many customized search pages. Thumbnails had been mostly the domain of image search — look up a celebrity under the image category and there’s the photo. Well, it [...]
From Adobe:
Adobe® Visual Communicator® 3 offers hundreds of customizable graphics, music and special effects to create video presentations that look like a television newscast. When presenting in front of a backdrop, users can digitally replace the background with an image or video. The teleprompter allows users to speak confidently without missing key points or memorizing [...]
A new user generated video upload tool from MediaSpan and Broadcast Interactive Media called YouNews TV video will allow citizen journalists to upload content onto local media sites. YouNews TV allows the audience of a local newspaper or radio station to upload breaking video stories in such categories as local sports, weather, entertainment, and news [...]
This is an interesting piece by Daniel Schultz at Poynter that discusses Rich Gordon’s new Knight News Challenge Grant to incorporate computer specialists in journalism schools. This is a great idea and can only help to foster better storytelling and news content packaging for the future. As Gordon stated in the interview, “Traditional newsrooms have [...]
When Real Networks releases its new player on Tuesday, the ability to download flash video becomes much easier for everyone. While this may be a good thing for those who believe everything on the web is for the taking, the problem for media companies is that the advertising content is stripped from the downloaded video. [...]
Here’s an interesting piece from Beet.TV’s video blog concerning the NY Times letting go of its embed code so that others can post clips on blogs and web pages…
Exclusive: The New York Times Will Share Video Clips with the Public — The Gray Lady Gets “YouTubed!”
Beet.TV has learned that The New York Times will make [...]
This is a great piece by Regina McCombs, multimedia producer and photographer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s StarTribune.com, on movement within the frame of a still image. She brings together several notables, such as Ken Burns himself and Rich Beckman, professor of multimedia at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, to discuss the good and [...]
What the Duck is the online creation of Aaron Johnson. I’ve been reading this since its inception and thought I should start sharing. Enjoy!
A great post by visual journalist Chuck Fadely at the Miami Herald on his NewspaperVideo blog called “The Great Video Gold Rush — a reality check.” Here’s a taste. Check out his entire post.
Video storytelling is technically difficult; extremely time-consuming, and takes talented people and expensive gear. A good video story can appeal to a [...]
The Image to Come.
Text by Diane Dufour, Serge Toubiana. Numerous contributing photographers.
Steidl / Magnum, Gottingen, 2007. 208 pp.
Publisher’s Description:
Magnum Photos and the Cinematheque Francaise sent 10 photographers to the movies and asked them to create original work in response to the oeuvre of a film director who has influenced their vision. In carrying [...]
According to a story by Clement James at vnunet.com, a majority of Americans are watching online video at least once a week.
Daily use of online video rose by 56 per cent over the past year, according to the online Magid Media Futures survey conducted over the last week in March in the US. Nine per [...]
According to a story from the New York Times this Sunday, cellphones may soon become the king of content. Large media companies, like CBS and MTV, and news organizations like The Associated Press are investing in original cellphone content. We need to discuss how our content can be utilized in this expanding market and if [...]
According to a report commissioned by the World Association of Newspapers on youth media behavior, newspapers must watch out for online competition from social networks like MySpace and Facebook. The study found this phenomenon is on the rise and that participants in the study listed “discussion with friends” as their top source for news and [...]
Joe Weiss’ long awaited improved version of Soundslides, Soundslides Plus, is now available!! The cost is a measly $69.95 or only $30.00 if you own a previous version of Soundslides.
New in Soundslides Plus
Image Movement (Pan and zoom)
Image-only, click-through slide shows
Individual transitions
Built-in lowerthird subtitles
Built-in thumbnail menus
From the NPPA:
DURHAM, NC (June 12, 2007) Russ Kendall, director of NPPA’s Region 11 who is a photography editor at the Bellingham Herald in Bellingham, WA, has been appointed chairman of the annual NPPA Photojournalism Summit. The announcement was made this week by NPPA president Tony Overman. “Russ was highly involved in the planning and [...]
An interesting piece by Diego Vasquez of Media Life Magazine concerning newspaper and magazine revenues and the Internet.
Spending less time with papers and magazines
By Diego Vasquez
Jun 14, 2007
It’s already been a rough year for magazines and newspapers, with ad revenue falling, high-profile publications closing and circulation slipping. Now here’s another worry: Heavy internet users, who [...]
A new News University course, “Telling Stories with Sound” by Andrew Devigal, multimedia editor for the New York Times, is now available free of charge on the News University website. According to the course description, “Telling Stories with Sound” covers the sound process from start to finish, showing you the tools needed to gather, process [...]
A photo and video sharing startup called Kyte, received funding from cell phone maker Nokia recently. Nokia invested in Kyte to help with the start-up of Kyte’s video service, kyte.tv. Kyte allows Internet users to create their own television channel and broadcast it on the Web, through blogs, social networks, and cell phones. Users can [...]
Poynter’s Al Tompkins brings us three days of a special series on radio reporting. For those of us struggling with sound, we sometimes forget that the story we tell still needs to be focused. Today, Tompkins brings us an interview he did with CBS Radio’s Peter King. On Wednesday he brings us Valerie Geller who [...]
To capitalize on the ever-broadening market for broadband video, newspapers are starting to produce what television has done for years by producing content that rivals, if not beats, what television stations are doing. This article talks about that trend and why television doesn’t see it as serious competition - yet. - more
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen tells Web users at a forum on Internet development in Taipai, that consumers will have access to YouTube on their cellphones by 2008. - more
Photosynth is an interesting new technology from Microsoft Live Labs that may change the way people use digital images.
Their software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. With Photosynth you can:
Walk or fly through a scene to [...]
6 Billion Others is a website that brings all of what multimedia can do into an interactive narrative on the human condition.
With the decline of printed journalism throughout the world, media owners are trying to cut costs and combine resources. The Baltimore Sun is one of the first to require reporters to shoot stills and video, but they probably will not be the last. We need to keep the pressure on managers and editors and make [...]
From Richard Koci Hernandez at multimediashooter.com:
File under buzzed. Too much caffeine + poor grammar + incomplete thoughts + my opinions = buzzed.
I have been a member of NPPA my entire career. When I started going to events sponsored by the NPPA, they were doing it right. The right speakers, relevant topics, eight projector eye [...]
From the NPPA:
The future of online photojournalism and how it is published on the Web will be determined by what happens with the next version of the Internet and revenue, the managing editor for multimedia for Washingtonpost.com and Newsweek Interactive said during an NPPA panel discussion about the Future Of Multimedia Photojournalism. The panel discussion [...]
The “Multimedia Evangelist” is dedicated to promoting multimedia education and a multimedia mindset to the field of photojournalism. As a photojournalist for 24 years and now as a university educator, I “saw the light” in Portland, Oregon, in 2007 at the National Press Photographers Association Summit. What happened in Portland in June of this year [...]
NPPA The Digital Journalist