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.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar on online reporting techniques at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Planning Content for Multiple Deadlines, Multiple Platforms
Where does the story start and does it ever end in a Twitter-enabled news world? A two-hour lab exercise where delegates will learn and apply the latest techniques for web-centric planning and reporting.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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Making Better Short-Form Video
Discussion of the elements of strong video. Managing and planning for tightly-edited video narratives and lessons from top video journalists.
Robb Montgomery will lead this seminar at the APME Newstrain workshop in St. Louis on March 8, 2009.
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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.
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Marc Andreessen- the man who invented the Web browser and the super brain behind Ning talks with Charlie Rose for an hour about the next steps he sees for U.S. Newspapers. He prescribes drastic steps to rescue the lions of the old media.
Here’s how this video clip opens up - which is brilliant story craft in its own right.
Charlie Rose:
So to play offense for a newspaper for you means what?
Marc Andreessen:
Oh, you got to kill the print edition.
Charlie Rose:
You would stop the presses tomorrow?
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
You have to kill it.
Charlie Rose:
Stop the presses tomorrow.
Marc Andreessen:
Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition. You talk to any smart investor who controls any amount of money, he will tell you that the game is up. Like it’s completely over. And so the investors have completely written off the print operations. There is no value in these stock prices attributable to print anymore at all. It’s gone.
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