David Leeson and Scott Kesterson have posted their third trailer for “At War“, a heartrending and powerful look at the cost of war on everyone involved. The film is due for a January 2008 release. I’m in Dallas to interview David as part of my research on the changes facing photojournalism today and how we [...]
Television shows on the Internet have replaced news programming as the most widely viewed online content. Traditional television programming online and Internet video are expected to grow in the next several years and will soon become entrenched as mainstream according to WebPro News. -more
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Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web has compiled an interesting list of future trends for the web. Highlights below:
10 Future Web Trends
by Richard MacManus
We’re well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation [...]
Great article this month in Digital Photo Pro Magazine by Harlon Mitchell on photojournalist Ed Kashi and his take on the changes in multimedia today.
Photojournalism Now
For freelance photojournalists, these are chaotic times. But in chaos there’s opportunity if you have the daring to go for it.
By Harlon Mitchell
The age of traditional freelance photojournalism is no [...]
Well, the first couple of weeks of teaching classes this fall have been interesting. I’m teaching a new course this semester, the role of images in mediating reality, for honors students. The course introduces them to visual literacy and teaches them that visuals influence their perception of reality and their behavior. Needless to say I’m [...]
Excellent piece by Mark Glaser at MediaShift on the migration of jobs from traditional print journalism to digital.
Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions
by Mark Glaser
If you follow the world of traditional journalism, you can’t help but notice the seemingly constant stream of layoffs and buyouts at news organizations. But media observers don’t often [...]
Video search is still a hot topic and this piece by Katherine Boehret at Wall Street Journal Online looks at the major players. She gives high praise to Truveo as one of the best of the bunch.
The Best Way To Search Videos On the Internet
By KATHERINE BOEHRET, Wall Street Journal Online
Some fascinating results can be [...]
A very well done soundslide piece titled “Simple Happiness” about a widowed Vietnamese woman and her son living on the streets of Hanoi from Ehrin Macksey, managing director of Relative Exposure and Asian Stock in Vietnam. I like the way Ehrin worked in the Google map with the story as well. His agency has [...]
The Bivings Group, a Washington, DC-based Internet communications firm released a list of the Top 10 Newspaper Websites on their blog, The Bivings Report. They judged sites on their web features as well as design, aesthetics and usability.
(1) New York Times: We love the general feeling of the NYT site, which is pleasing to [...]
While it may never be used by news sites, a very interesting slide show tool from Animoto that was just released after finishing beta testing:
From the website: Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos, each a customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end [...]
Some bad news thrown in with some good news from the recent release of the Cox Center 2006 Annual Survey Findings of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates. I do like the fact that more journalists are working on the web. I don’t like the fact that they are not being compensated properly for it [...]
“Five Steps To Multimedia Reporting” is a great site for multimedia training from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. The site is geared to reporters who need to learn how to create multimedia stories. The tutorials cover video (cameras, accessories, shooting tips, stand-ups and voice-overs, iMovie, Final [...]
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC) annual conference has wrapped up and one theme coming out of some of the research presentations is that journalism schools need to do a better job teaching multimedia to new journalists. I can count our school as one that is forward thinking enough [...]
From a recent article by Tim Rutten on LA Times.com, “Newspapers are changing to suit reader’s tastes,” he laments the lack of quality news programming on cable and network news, but holds out hope that newspapers can make the transition back to their roots rather than fall prey to the type of programming we see [...]
Great find from Angela Grant at News Videographer concerning a recent study on consumer desires for online video. As a disclaimer on the report, Akamai, the company funding the study, has a large stake in the online community through their software and hardware divisions.
Video technological problems won’t fly
How long will a crappy video experiences fly [...]
Here’s a great read from Robert Logan, “The 14 Messages of New Media,” on MediaShift about his extension of Marshall McLuhan’s statement that “the medium is the message.” He lists 14 characteristics of new media today that, “… seem to have 14 distinct messages that intertwine and support each other.” A very interesting read.
1. two-way [...]
Here is an interesting development that I haven’t paid very much attention to, online storage. I’m getting ready to buy a Terabyte drive, which should last a little while for storing video, but if the need ever arose this might be a good place to go. My concern would be reliability and security. Here’s a [...]
There’s a great article in the August issue of The Digital Journalist by editor and publisher Dirck Halstead, “Can You Shoot Stills and Video?” Dirck talks about the challenges photojournalists are having adapting to these new skill sets, but that the trade-off we are making, in many cases, is richer journalism and storytelling.
I like the [...]
TeacherClick, a website for teachers (duh), offers free online computer tutorials to the educational community. If you’re looking for something to supplement a book there are some free tutorials that will work well for what we do, especially the Flash and Dreamweaver sections. The site has tutorials for: Flash 8, Excel 2003, Dreamweaver 8, Flash [...]
The Online Journalism Review just published a five step guide for website usability testing that can gauge readers’ reactions to multimedia projects and website design. A very solid guide to making sure that what you produce actually reaches and communicates with your audience.
OJR’s ‘five guide’ to do-it-yourself website usability testing
Use these steps, and these forms, [...]
I haven’t used online video editors before but JayCut’s flash uploader was easy to use and supported video, photo, and audio in multiple formats. To add clips, music, transitions, or effects to the time line I just placed them into the editor. Once the files were uploaded they were converted to flash for the editor [...]
I’ve been keeping tabs on Pachyderm for a while now and it looks like September 2007 the NMC (New Media Consortium) will offer hosted accounts for a small subscription fee to individuals. Pachyderm is the equivalent of Joe Weiss’ SoundSlides, but on super steroids, with the ability to allow anyone to upload images, audio, and [...]
I just reported last month on the success of asap. Things change fast! According to a story on Yahoo! Finance from Seth Sutel, AP business writer, the AP is closing down its 2-year-old multimedia service on October 31. asap emphasized nontraditional methods of storytelling to help newspapers reach the 18-to-34 age group. AP sources stated [...]
In a recent report from the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), 62 magazines announced digital initiatives in the second quarter of 2007. That’s a 139% increase over the same time period in 2006, and the highest number ever tracked by MPA. Some of the new initiatives announced by magazine publishers are integrated marketing [...]
In an article by Dane Hamilton from Reuters (Apple co-founder backs Internet video venture) a new Internet startup called “Hotswap.com” has created a new compression technology for Internet video that can make common digital camera movie clips mimic high-definition television on Web sites. This technology is going to be used initially for e-commerce sites, specifically [...]
American Journal, an online magazine published monthly by American Journal Publishing, has some great content. They are also always looking for more. This would be another outlet for stories that may have been sidelined in some way, but that you want to still present to a major audience. The one thing I didn’t see was [...]
According to a story from BizReport, online newspaper readership is on the rise. Also increasing is the amount of time readers are spending on each page. The report credits this increase to, “The increasing inclusion of engaging content such as blogs, video, polls and online debate.” Multimedia content is having an effect on readership. Hopefully [...]
A nicely done piece from the Onion on the loss of all data. In all seriousness, what would we do if the content we have so lovingly created is lost due to a server meltdown or other calamity? We rarely think about the archival quality and lasting power of multimedia content. Today we can go [...]
(What the Duck)
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism will soon unveil their new multimedia curriculum. The move is not without criticism. School Dean, John Lavine, has emphasized marketing as part of the new curriculum, a move that has irked many journalists, faculty, and students. I agree, we have to be very careful that we keep [...]
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