Below is a slideshow of great pages that proves the visual journalism is not dead.
Not dead by a mile - and work like this is even more necessary when editors need to tell complex stories in an economy of newsprint. Stories that can be scanned and read in non-linear fashion.
The quality of work submitted to the Visual Editors portfolio site every day illustrates that the craft and need for editorial visuals is still being produced at a high level in newsrooms around the globe.
Every few days the editors highlight the strongest page designs and graphics to be featured on the home page.
Do you think like an entrepreneur? If you have ideas for building future business models for sustainable journalism, you should join me in applying for this free seminar at the USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles.
I just signed up for the offered by the Knight Digital Media Center. Here’s the catch - the week long seminar is free but you have to earn your seat in the classroom by applying by Feb 16.
Vikki Porter, the director of the Knight Digital Media Center e-mailed me via my blog today about promoting this cool camp and I told her that I could only do so if I felt a strong desire to either want to lead a session or be in the class. I read through her course offering and messaged her back that that I wanted to be a student. I have ideas and I need this class.
So I applied.
One of the students, Noha Atef- Cairo, attending my multimedia journalism workshop at the Press Syndicate in Cairo made this slideshow after the training event.
There is a place where fourth graders will be using Final Cut and every teacher has a multimedia hub as their “desk.” At this urban school, classroom teachers will be filming video documentaries as part of their jobs.
Welcome to Edison Elementary School in Kalamazoo, Michigan: A magnet school with new multimedia production facilities. I recently led a video journalism workshop with a core group of classroom teachers where I taught them how to make effective video reports. (Teachers call training “professional development”)
One of my students, Anthony Gettig, produced this short video report from that week. Listen to the teachers - see the excitement on their faces.
After having worked closely with journalists and editors in newsrooms large and small in many parts of the world, I have a pretty clear sense of the training needs and am keen to match them to extremely practical workshop experiences.
But, I really need your help to confirm this. Will you please help me out with some data?
In advance of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Egypt June 4, I talk with Egyptians about the president’s first major address from the most populous state in the Arab world and his first from Africa. (The president has made an address from Turkey, but that nation is not part of the Arab League.)
Join Robb Montgomery as he teaches multimedia reporting techniques that you can use immediately to attract and inform online readers. Learn how to use your digital camera or mobile phone as your reporter’s notebook.
From zero to operational. That is what Robb did for our teaching staff when he came to teach us basic video journalism. Our teachers are now able to create videos for their classrooms and our school blog that show the Inquiry Based strategies and lessons we have implemented.
- the man who invented the and the super brain behind talks with Charlie Rose for an hour about the next steps he sees for U.S. Newspapers. He prescribes drastic steps to rescue the lions of the old media.
Here’s how this video clip opens up - which is brilliant story craft in its own right.
Charlie Rose: So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?
Marc Andreessen: Oh, you got to kill the print edition.
Charlie Rose: You would stop the presses tomorrow?
Marc Andreessen: You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose: Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen: You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose: Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen: Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.
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.
