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.
Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.
One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.
I will deliver three sessions on mulitmedia reporting at Wordstock in Toronto, Oct 3. 2009
“Twitter for Journalists”
“Breaking the Barriers to Multimedia and Social Media Reporting”
“Get your audio right and upgrade all of your multimedia”
We will cover the fundamentals of tech and technique all with a veteran journalist’s understanding and expertise in using these tools to produce compelling digital mulit media.
Digital-J school: Learn how to use RSS feeds how to aggregate them using Yahoo! Pipes. PLUS: See how bookmarking and networking with Delicious can improve your digital classroom.
What video camera do you use? How should we train reporters to use video? What’s the secret to video on the Web?
Good questions and I attempt to answer them here for my friend, Steve Garfield who has been commissioned to write a book about video journalism and asked me to contribute to a chapter about newspapers using Web video.
Steve’s questions to me are in bold and my answers follow.
1. Why are newspapers training their reporters and photographers to become video producers?
They have observed the sea change with the medium that YouTube ushered in and are catching up to the fact that web video is now a mainstream activity and an affordable form of online journalism. Quite simply that is where the audience is.
This new film documentary was reported and filmed on location in Alexandria, Egypt by print journalists learning video journalism techniques.
I was able to make this film with great contributions from a translator and a top film assistant. We directed the efforts of 14 Egyptian journalists to report and edit an original documentary about this issue in only one week’s time. We worked with people who had never done a project like this before . . .
Two-part lecture on Web video and where the Web is going.
“Trends in online and video journalism.” for The Alliance of Area Business Publications meeting
Camp VJ Chicago has been a hit according to students and instructors who participated. Director of the J-School at Michigan State Jane Briggs-Bunting attended the fundamentals classes early in the week and blogged about she is leading the charge for her faculty to cross over as digital immigrants. Instructor and newsvideographer blogger, Angela Grant was enamored with her experiences with students, the Chicago venues and the work that Camp VJ students are able to produce in these two day classes. Her post says it all:
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.