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.
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 Camp Video Journalism Orlando students, Anthony Gettig, produced this short video report from that week. Listen to the teachers - see the excitement on their faces.
Authors of scientific journals are building the kinds of prototypes for Web articles that media groups seemingly are unable, or unwilling to do.
Allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the latest advances in visualization techniques.
Watch the video walk through below. These Cell Press and Elsevie article designs don’t use Flash, and yet, they don’t conceive of publishing articles without visuals. The designs promote transparency, interaction, and links to establish authority and reward contributors.
CAIRO: The Supremem Press council opens their new multi-million dollar training center and the Egypt Media Development program’s training consultant, Robb Montgomery, will return to Egypt to open the venue. Montgomery was the first journalist/trainer to train Egyptian journalists at the start of the project.
Montgomery will also be making a new film documentary about all of the training centers and also produce sessions for the Egypt Media Development Program where he will be training the trainers in social media and visual media techniques.
I am delighted to thrilled to see so many Americans suddenly wanting to get into the news business.
Who knew that the Obama Health Care Reform Plan debate would lighting their inner Lou Grant, The Front Page or All the President’s Men?
This new e-mail publishing fever is being fueled by passing along stories about President Obama’s Health Care Reform Bill.
I have e-mails arriving now from well-meaning souls who have suddenly decided to enter the publishing business.
That’s great - new blood in the newsroom and green reporters to train.
October 1-2: I will return to Prague to join two visual journalism greats at a new WAN-IFRA conference called Newsroom 2015.
Welt am Sonntag’s Jördis Guzmán-Bulla and Mario Garcia and I have been asked to produce a session on visual journalism.
The World Editors Forum (Which I have worked with every years since 2005) is engineering the global newspaper industry’s first high quality, low cost conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 1-2 October 2009. With five super-informative session and two expert panels, the Newsroom 2015 Conference will deliver many practical money saving ideas to help your newsroom achieve its goals in the digital age.
Join us as we learn about:
- strategies for and the future of online revenues with Google News
- how the real time Web is transforming journalism with strategies from Twitter
- how Editors-in-Chief are optimising their newsroom workflow with Verdans Gang
- why developing niche information is so important with Netvibes
- how to enhance stories with visual journalism and interactive graphics
Learn the culture and best practices for creating digital media to work better with the real-time Web.
Join us October 5-7, 2009 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.
DETAILS:
What will I learn?
WEB REPORTING - Monday, October 5
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, manage a Twitter persona for yourself or your organization and dig into many delicious ways to use social media for research and publishing.
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.
