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What Makes A Good Video Story

We are always looking for opportunities to add multimedia features to our stories, and the most popular kind of feature we can add is video. Eventually, it would be great if the reporters would pitch video ideas on their own initiative. To this end, here’s a link to a post on Net Worked, What Makes [...]
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A walk in snowshoes

via blip.tv Our latest Chronicle video, shot by Michael Gibney, edited by me. Posted via web from Becker’s Online Journal
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In case you didn’t see it…

Here’s our latest Chronicle video, shot by Dan Person, edited by me.
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Using music in multimedia pieces

Eric Maierson at MediaStorm offers some fantastic tips for using music in multimedia stories — such as video and audio. The gist is this: Make sure you the music you choose is good. Otherwise, don’t use it. Then, learn to cut and shape the music to fit with your piece so that it becomes more [...]
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Brian Stelter: Online ads are booming

Brian Stelter, writing for the New York Times, points out that at least portion of the online advertising market is growing: At a time when other categories of advertising dollars are shrinking, video ads are booming. News sites are adding more video inventory to keep pace with the demands of advertisers, and benefiting from the [...]
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Rehberg talks about social networking with Gazette

Denny Rehberg spoke to the Billings Gazette recently about the effect of social networking on politics and campaigning. Rehberg is no stranger to social networking. He has a page on Facebook, a pretty active video stream on YouTube and, yes, he’s even on Twitter, where he recently posted about his opinions on the newest health [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Video: Achieving a Web-first newsroom workflow

This video from CoPress.org is worth a watch. It emphasizes that the Web should be the center of a newsroom’s workflow; the Web should be a priority. This will require a pretty big shift in reporters’ and editors’ mind sets, though. The Web-centric newsroom from CoPress on Vimeo. Please discuss in the comments.
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