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Monthly Archives: October 2009
New e-book offers multimedia journalism tips
Multimedia journalist Adam Westbrook has published his e-book, “6×6: Advice for Multimedia Journalists,” on his blog. I’d advise anyone interested in doing multimedia journalism (specifically video) to go download a copy. It’s free, after all.
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Newspapers in education
I just watched a report on KBZK, our local CBS affiliate, that told me that the weatherman spent some time in a local elementary school explaining what the station does and what it has available on its newscasts and Web site. They’re trying to draw readers and viewers to their products. What are we doing [...]
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Journalism’s woes don’t resonate
A few days ago, Columbia Journalism School released the 96-page “Reconstruction of American Journalism” report, which I’m about halfway done reading. Journalism veteran-turned-consultant Steve Outing noted on his blog that the report doesn’t offer a lot of new information for the people who are already well-versed in the media “crisis.” Instead, Outing says the report [...]
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Save early and save often
Lesson learned: If a program offers you the opportunity to autosave your work for you, if only you’d take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it. Don’t, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, thinking that Final Cut Pro is saving [...]
Opinions on holding content for print
I posted a question to the Web site WiredJournalists.com, after a newsroom discussion a few weeks ago. We were debating when we should post news online, right away or later. The concern at the time was that the local television station would use our Web site as their daily playbook. (That concern is still there [...]
NYT publishes news of its own economic woes
News today that the New York Times will need to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year, whether through buyouts or layoffs. A memo to employees from editor Bill Keller (published here) explains the situation. What’s more, the Times announced this news on its own Media Decoder blog, where Richard Perez-Pena explains [...]
Building a Twitter strategy
I took part in a webinar put on by News University today on Building a Twitter Strategy for Your News Organization. It was hosted by Ellyn Angelotti, the interactivity editor and an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute. Angelotti made five key points about using Twitter successfully for journalism. Be human. People appreciate the [...]
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The utility of blogging
Words on the importance of blogging to BBC business editor Robert Preston: For me, the blog is at the core of everything I do, it is the bedrock of my output. The discipline of doing it shapes my thoughts. It disseminates to a wider world the stories and themes that I think matter. But it [...]
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