I’m going to read more of this when I get a chance to catch my breath, but the Nieman reports are always interesting and inspiring. Let’s be muckrakers.
I’m going to read more of this when I get a chance to catch my breath, but the Nieman reports are always interesting and inspiring. Let’s be muckrakers.
This commentary on Poynter.org struck a chord. It is the journalism of today, but also the journalism that my students will be involved with. We have to expand our thinking of what journalists are and what news is and how the business of the whole thing works.
Fascinating backstory of a writer’s experience writing about working as a coal miner in Pennsylvania.
And here’s the story.
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_5598
OK, here’s some interesting advice. I think it’s true about creating your own brand. And check out angryjournalist.com.
The Editorialiste: Advice For Young Journalists, Or How Not To Be An Angry Journalist
Below is a funny — well, maybe not all that funny — list of reasons not to learn multimedia skills. For those toiling in the trenches to finish your multimedia projects, at least you’re doing it.
Top 10 Reasons Not to Learn Multimedia Skills :: 10,000 words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews
After reading a post from fave blog The Editorialiste commenting on the troubles of budding multimedia journalists, I understand. Multimedia is hard. Its different. Thats why I’ve written a list of reasons why you shouldn’t bother with multimedia.
1. The extra hours spent on multimedia will preempt any pressing games of Solitaire.
2. Backpack journalism requires backpacks…which are heavy.
3. Asking a journalist to multitask is like asking Bo Jackson to play more than one sport, I mean come on.
4. The hundreds of voices on a website can’t compare to the two quality experts in a print or broadcast story.
5. Who needs to learn how to record audio when you can write?
6. Interactivity is just a fancy word for communism.
7. There will always be an intern that will do it for cheap.
8. The Pulitzer committee won’t see your story if its on the net.
9. Computers cause cancer.
10. Journalism is dead anyway.
I spent the day at the well-organized and inspiring Savage Seminar. Photojournalists — really storytellers — showed us such a range of visuals and videos and slide shows. I laughed. I cried. I turned my head away at times. But what blew me away more than the powerful visuals were the photojournalists, who were generous, enthusiastic and full of passion for their work. That’s what I would really want my students to see: the passion, the belief in telling stories that can change lives, the reason I love journalism. Thanks to Matt Miller and the other hard-working organizers for a great day.
Here are some links to the work of some of the photojournalists there:
Dai Sugano, San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/blog/2007/12/23/uprooted/
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/2007/04/30/on-assignment/
Vincent LaForet
http://www.vincentlaforet.com
Smiley Pool
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823433113/bctid1478222576
This graphic only supports what I’ve thought about coverage, good and bad. But what a cool way to show it.
