I got tagged. Mindy McAdams has tagged me. Tagged me and then run off off for the holiday break. Coward.
She got tagged by Bryan Murley and like him I’m actually pretty ‘geeked’ to be tagged.
The ‘tag’ is a meme - the online equivalent of a chain letter - asking for 5 Things You [...]

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Go and have a look at - WHAT’S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS and their great series of photographs from newsrooms around the world.
Go on…

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I have been posting a lot recently about the problems/opportunities that newspapers face in putting video content on their websites. No one would disagree that it’s one hell of learning curve for an industry where there is little in the way of a skills base.
But what about the industries where there is already a skills [...]

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Here are some practical tips for video on newspaper sites
Start small.
If you have no expertise in your newsroom, you cant expect to go from no video output to good quality output without some struggle. So, why not try some of the skills out in a less time pressured way.
Start by producing short slideshows of images [...]

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Another few days of training out of the way and some more thoughts on the issues facing print journos as they make the move to online video.
I ask all the participants what they want out of the course. A common response has been: “Make video that looks professional”. For them, that means video like [...]

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A brief post before I head off in to another two days of video training.
An online file conversion service called Zamzar might be the answer if you are Mac based and want WMV as well as mov output. Maybe the other way round as well.
If the Mov to WMV is something you do a lot [...]

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One of the journos on my video course left a comment on my cross media post, expressing the frustration she feels in not having online recognised as journalism. She talks about “having been effectively banned from writing and subbing in print, it is easy to feel somewhat castrated as a journalist.”

It’s indicative of the ‘it’s [...]

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A great bit of multimedia at the Washington Post - Being a Black Man
A rich, deep multimedia menu that gathers content from around the Post. If I had one gripe it would be the intermediate ad pages when you navigate to a story page but what’s great is that they have linked back from each [...]

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