The Obama White House staff salaries are shown in this live data graphic visulization. If you updates the figures, the graphic will be updated instantly for the next Web reader.
The White House is uploading all kinds of public data to Socrata. I downloaded this set of numbers and built a Many Eyes graphic in about five minutes.
Source: SOCRATA: 2009 Report to Congress
This is an example of the kind of reporter-driven visualizations that I was teaching France24 journalists in my Web reporting seminars. Continue reading ‘Graphic: White House staff salaries revealed’
I am delighted to thrilled to see so many Americans suddenly wanting to get into the news business.
Who knew that the 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.
Continue reading ‘News vs. Opinion in the Obama Health Care debate’
I am teaching a four day seminar on multimedia reporting to Web journalists for France 24. France 24 is A CNN-style 24/7 video and Web news organization designed for a French audience.
I was hired as a consultant to New York City-based Mignon-Media and have been working closely with Jeff Mignon for months in preparation to make this the best possible training event possible.
The studios are first-class, state-of-the art. Uber-impressive.
The editor-in-chief, Karine Broyer, gave me a tour while they were broadcasting and then she came to attend the class. I can tell you right now that impresses me the most. When the editor comes to class.
I have, without fail, witnessed over the years that when the editor goes to class with staff that the training takes hold.
Continue reading ‘France24: Teaching Multimedia Reporting in Paris’
From $150: Learn New Media, Multimedia and Web Video - Berlin Workshop
Monday September 7, 2009 - Friday September 11, 2009
KircherBurkhardt
Berlin, Germany
A full week of new media classes - from Writing for the Web to editing in Final Cut Pro. Pay only for the training you need or buy a multi-day pass and attend all the sessions.
DETAILS
http://campvjberlin.eventbrite.com
These classes are hands-on, interactive and designed to teach the fundamentals for producing visual and interactive reports for Web publications.
Continue reading ‘Workshops in New Media, Multimedia and Web Video’
Charlie Rose video interview with Arianna Huffington of Huffingtonpost.com and Tom Curley of the Associated Press. They square off for 15 minutes about link journalism and making money with wire news in the digital age.
Scrub the playhead on the timeline to 15:05 to get to the segment.
Continue reading ‘Arianna Huffington and Tom Curley: Journalism biz models for future’
What are the dead simple to use reporting tools for field audio interviews? The field research continues in Europe where I’ll be training reporters using these FlashMics in Brussels.
I hope to be convinced that they are extremely simple to use AND can produce sound to professional standards. That’s a winning combination for me and, as a part owner in a recording studio, something I obviously value very highly.
On the FlashMic, You basically just have to press one button to make it record, and another to stop. They also do have line input for picking up sound from an external source (like a press conference etc).
Continue reading ‘Teaching podcasting @EU Parliament in Brussels’
