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Multimedia Reporter: Multimedia workflow presentation for SPJ Regional
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Sunday, April 11, 2010. Multimedia workflow presentation for SPJ Regional. Below is a copy of my presentation weekend at the Society of Professional Journalists Region 7 conference in Omaha, NE,. One thing about PowerPoint: it’s easy to share them later, via SlideShare. All the links work. The videos don't, although I was able to upload the one about the lawyer searching for witnesses in Africa. It will play if you click past the slide to the next slide. Here is the related story. Who is this guy? There ...
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Multimedia Reporter: Quit fretting and just push 'record' already
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Thursday, August 9, 2007. Quit fretting and just push 'record' already. 8220;What do we do now? That was the question after I gave my first audio training to reporters at The Eagle today. We started with audio, because I continue to read and believe, it's the first and most important skill we can develop. People may forgive bad video, some dangling participles, average photos. But hurt their ears and they will turn you off. Afterwards, my colleagues were complimentary and said it was useful. Talk to the ...
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Multimedia Reporter: What to do when your boss hands you a flip cam
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. What to do when your boss hands you a flip cam. It’s going to happen eventually, if it hasn’t already. Newsrooms are going to start handing out flip cameras to reporters. It doesn’t have to be an actual Flip. Cam Hopefully, it will be a Kodak Zi8. Or something else with an audio input, where you can connect a microphone and get decent sound. Prepare to blow them away. We’ve been over the basics. Really, I bug the hell out of them for advice. They can attest just how much...
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Multimedia Reporter: Summer multimedia lessons: coming full circle
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Summer multimedia lessons: coming full circle. It's really been an incredible summer. Amid 10 days of triple-digit heat in Kansas, I've received a few signs that maybe I'm starting to do things right. When I started this blog in 2007, there were few places to learn how to add multimedia to your work day. I searched the web to learn video and found Angela Grant's News Videographer. Blog I sent Angela my videos and she critiqued them. I read her tips and followed them. Journalism ...
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Multimedia Reporter: July 2011
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Summer multimedia lessons: coming full circle. It's really been an incredible summer. Amid 10 days of triple-digit heat in Kansas, I've received a few signs that maybe I'm starting to do things right. When I started this blog in 2007, there were few places to learn how to add multimedia to your work day. I searched the web to learn video and found Angela Grant's News Videographer. Blog I sent Angela my videos and she critiqued them. I read her tips and followed them. Journalism ...
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Multimedia Reporter: Meanwhile, back in video class
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Meanwhile, back in video class. Whenever I hear about basic video shots, I think of the old television show “Dragnet.”. I brought this up in our video training class the other day, and Stacey, our instructor, and everyone else looked at me strange – except for our photo editor Brian Corn, who has been around as long as I have. Not that I remember the first-run “Dragnet.”. I did grow up watching reruns and, yes, saw it the second-time around when it revived in the 1960s. If you d...
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Multimedia Reporter: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. Tangled up in multimedia blues. I used to have to have only a notebook and pen. Now, I need a video camera, an audio recorder, Blackberry, and various headphones and battery chargers. My desk is a mess, and I sometimes find myself tripping over wires and tangled up amid the mess that is my desk. Shuffling papers is one thing. Untangling wires consumes my time. Anyone have ideas for controlling my tangled life? Labels: gear and software. Friday, September 24, 2010. Turns out, i...
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Multimedia Reporter: Creating video out of little more than audio
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011. Creating video out of little more than audio. Over at my work blog. I've been working on this investigative report of a 30-year-old murder. That has sent a man to prison for a crime he claims he didn't commit. I wanted to produce an audio story to let people hear Rhodes speak. Our online content developer, shook her head, "no.". No one listens to audio on our site," she said. I had to come up with something visual - anything but a blank screen. The "video" was really the audio s...
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Multimedia Reporter: Two news comment policies to enhance the dialogue
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Monday, October 18, 2010. Two news comment policies to enhance the dialogue. This past weekend, my old employer and hometown news source instituted a new policy on comments. Coincidentally, my personal philosophy mirrors the News-Leader's policy:. Reporters and editors are required to use their real names. Comments from the rest of the community are not. If you look at the comments section of the same item, you will find very few relevant to the original post. Mostly, it's the same old off-to...During my...
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Multimedia Reporter: Planning an investigative project for the home page, not just the front page
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Thursday, February 17, 2011. Planning an investigative project for the home page, not just the front page. At 3 am last Sunday, I put the final touches on the multimedia project I’d been working on for months, squeezing it between daily assignments. 8220; Presumed Guilty. 8221; was live on the web. It’s about Ronnie Rhodes. Who’s spent 30 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit, and the disturbing nationwide exposure of wrongful convictions. Instead of just the front page of The Wichita Eagle.
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