New media and video journalism
Michael Cooke’s farewell remarks to reporting staff of the Chicago Sun-Times.
This marks the the second time that Cooke has said goodbye to the reporters and editors who work in that newsroom.
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Jacobson, new media professor at Temple University, talks with Robb Montgomery at Newstrain about digital journalism. The Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation hosted the event in their headquarters in Harrisburg. The podcast was produced as a live exercise by Robb Montgomery in the classroom using an iPhone and the Utterz service.
An impromptu podcast recorded with Joyce Carlson using an iPhone at the BCYCNA seminar in Richmond, BC.
Sound recording in the field is one of the high demands now for more and more digital journalists. So where are we with the state of the art? How important is great audio and what are people using for their VOX pops and field podcasts?
What makes great audio?
Consider for a moment just how much technology, technique and expertise goes into making sound, uh, sound good. Here’s an INXS track posted by my friend Diana into her Yahoo! feed.
We take it for granted that vocals sound like this - as a society we have been raised on professionally produced audio for the last 40 years since the advent of FM radio.
It takes an incredible amount of technology and talent to make a vocal track sound this “natural.” The sound passes from the lips through an exquisite suite of electronic gear that processes it and compensates for many, many faults along the way.
Continue reading ‘GEAR: Outfitting reporters with audio recorders’
If you can make a call - and ask questions you can make an instant podcast or have access to audio notes from interviews.
This is a podcast from a live demonstration during a seminar delivered at the Philadelphia Inquirer/ The training was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Foundation and was designed to introduce the latest digital reporting methods.
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.
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