Tag Archive for '2009'

Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can

This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn’t normally revealed in a journalist’s storytelling.

I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images that were never part of my “official reporting.” Hmm. I kept being drawn to them and decided to see if they could still be useful.

The multimedia below is made almost entirely from poor quality mobile phone images.

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Graphic: White House staff salaries revealed

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’

The Complete Guide to Video Blogging - October 2009

Video journalism 101 - Mashable style.

Leah Betancourt wrote about video blogging and video journalism today in a Mashable.com article.