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.

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.

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Visit the future of journalism - the 2015 newsroom in Prague

The 10 week new media training tour depart soon and will feature a two day visit to the site of journalism’s most provocative new publishing experiment - FUTUROOM - in the Czech Republic.

This map mashup details the 10-week-long “New Media Training Tour” that starts in Norman Oklahoma this week and ends with a splash in the Red Sea the first week of December. In between there are training stops in London, Toronto, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Harrisburg, Cairo, and Berlin.

I will try to blog some of the highlights from the road, but would never attempt to compete with Charles Apple’s excellent blow-by-blow reportage from his recent trip to Cape Town.
I tend to make short documentary films, Annotated still photo slideshows and Google map mashups to take readers along with me.

After the Sept 25-26 APME Newstrain workshop in Oklahoma I will finally be seeing much more about a new working model for journalism and newsroom structure at the FUTUROOM in Prague, Czech Republic on the 1st & 2nd October 2009.

I have worked as a consultant to FUTUROOM this year and finally we can show our colleagues a new model for journalism that inverts many of the dynamics of production and community engagement.
It’s a fast trip over there and then quickly back to Toronto.

But, before leave Prague, I will also deliver a new presentation on visual literacy and managing multiple narratives for visiting editors in-chief from European media houses.

I’ll join fellow design and visual narrative colleagues Mario R. Garcia, Ph.D. and Jördis Guzmán-Bulla in the Second Session.
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