Multimedia training and visual journalism
OK you print designers wanting to walk over to the digital side of design.
Reading job listings is the best roadmap and the New York Times jobs listings are a great place to start reading up.
This is the skill set for online design jobs in their shop
Two new jobs popped up from nytimes.com on the uber journalism jobs board I have coded-up on Visual Editors.
Continue reading ‘Two new design jobs at The New York Times’
It seems that in this day and age designing attractive pages is not enough. You also have to know how to tightly edit your work and use the best tools for presenting your skills online.
Exhibit A: Nina Mehta, Indiana University.
Nina is graduating soon and is looking for a job. She proved to us all at SND Boston that that she is a versatile journalist. She produced many fine podcast interviews from the conference. They were so inspired I call them “NinaCasts.”
But it is how she presents her print work online that other aspring interns and job candidates could take a clue from.
She uses Flickr. Smartly.
Continue reading ‘How to edit and present a design portfolio’
Let’s say you are reporter in a small town and POTUS decides to stop by for a visit.
You could tag along in the media van and eventually publish the details of his visit in an extra print run or you could go completely wireless and live blog the event to your loyal audience -in real time.
That’s what Tom Murse, Jr. of the New Era in Lancaster, PA decided to do when Air Force One and George W stopped into town today. Pretty much everything grinds to halt and people in town all want to know what he did, where he ate and who he talked to.
Tom says: Continue reading ‘Live Blogging the President of the U.S.’
Let’s say you are going to be in New England making movies amidst the fall color next week . . Nice, right?
Wouldn’t it be great if that video could actually look good on You Tube - instead of how it normally does?
Below, one set of Hollywood cinema experts share their settings.
If you were at the “Web Video is not TV” workshop last week at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association you would have learned about better video hosting options and QT settings to use for people who don’t enjoy a 100 MB upload limit or poorly compressed video. (You Tube’s limitation)
At PNA, we discussed what makes a go of good video playback on Blip and Brightcove, but first let us try to see if we can improve for the old You Tube.
The LA Final Cut Pro Users Group has a tutorial.
If your boss demands to see it on You Tube these Quicktime compression settings are supposed to you get the most of your crisp High-Def clips without cringing. Let’s give it a test drive.
Continue reading ‘Best video compression settings for You Tube’
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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