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Bringing Photojournalism to Bhutan

jerry l. posted an article on - Jun 3, 2011, 2:34 am
You'll enjoy this missive from our former student Mary Calvert, an award-winning photojournalist based in Washington, D.C. , describing her recent teaching adventure in Bhutan. Proud to see that she used her old professor's textbook! (Click photo to enlarge.) "Greetings from the Kingdom of Bhutan,"...
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Audio Slideshows: Soundslides or Final Cut?

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 27, 2011, 6:38 pm
Since 2005, Joe Weiss' revolutionary Soundslides software has enabled newspaper Websites to produce audio slideshows -- and paved the way toward multimedia and videojournalism. For the first time, picture stories could be narrated -- by the reporter, the photographer, the subject -- and even augmen...
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Canon Hybrid is 'Game Changer' for AP Visuals

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 20, 2011, 5:24 pm
Kevin Roach,the Associated Press's VP for Broadcast News, tells Beet.TV that the hybrid Canon 5D Mark II (the first DSLR to enable 1080p video) is a "game changer" for visual journalism. . The AP wisely committed resources to supplying both its print reporters and still photographers with these pri...
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Lots of Inspiration for Visual Journalists

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 20, 2011, 4:49 pm
Richard Koci Hernandez has posted his list of 25 books every visual journalist should have on their shelf, on his MultimediaShooter.com blog. (To which we'd humbly add Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach, 6th edition.) He's also posted a glorious roundup of treats, Featured Work: Curated,...
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'A Chance Meeting': Powerful Reunion Story

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 20, 2011, 3:38 pm
The accidental reunion of long-lost friends or relatives can be a powerful premise for a video story. Jesse Tinsley, of the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), produced 'A Chance Meeting' about the unlikely re-convergence of two WWII veterans from different countries. Two elderly gentlemen, each suff...
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AP Is Hiring a Videojournalist in D.C., But...

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2011, 10:46 am
The good news is that the Associated Press is hiring a videojournalist for its Washington, D.C. office. We're sharing its job description, to give you an idea of the superheroic skill sets that media organizations are demanding in applicants these days. Qualifications: The Associated Press is look...
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ComScore: 'Online Video Gains Momentum'

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2011, 10:04 am
In its 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review whitepaper on prevailing trends and their implications for the future, ComScore reports that online video "continued to gain momentum, with an average of 179 million Americans watching video each month." Engagement levels also rose during the year, with view...
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NPPA's 2011 Multimedia Immersion Workshop

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 9, 2011, 12:31 pm
Only 40 spots are available for NPPA's 2011 Multimedia Immersion Workshop, May 17-22, 2011, at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. The workshop is for visual journalists who are looking to expand and grow their multimedia skills using the latest technology. We w...
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Q&A with 'Pine Point' Tourguides, The Goggles

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 7, 2011, 12:32 pm
We told you about an innovative approach to interactive multimedia storytelling -- "Welcome to Pine Point," about the Canadian mining town that vanished in 1988, and what became of its residents. Now here's an insightful interview with The Goggles, the creative team who developed and produced it, b...
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Videojournalism Tutorials by D.C. Pros

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 3, 2011, 10:13 pm
Once again we're sharing some video tutorials about videojournalism from the International Journalists' Network. They're from top pros in Washington, D.C. The first two are from Pierre Kattar, who produced Emmy-winning videojournalism for the Washington Post, and now flies solo. Telling True Storie...
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How to Have a Commanding Broadcast Voice

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 2, 2011, 3:34 am
Solo videojournalists have to not only report, shoot and edit their stories, but often have to provide voiceover narration. It's no secret that most of us are horrified by hearing the actual sound of our own voice. It never sounds as rich and authoritative as it does inside our own heads. Dr. Ann S...
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Vivian Maier Update

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 12:32 pm
We previously told you about Vivian Maier, the Chicago nanny who took tens of thousands of photographs of Chicago street scenes that she never showed to anyone. Most were never even developed. Young real-estate agent John Maloof serendiptiously acquired them at an auction, not knowing what might be ...
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Beet.TV Videojournalism Panel Livestream

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 2:40 am
UPDATE: To see the archived videos and liveblog of this event, go here. Watch this space on Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 9am ET (6am PT) for the livestream of Beet.TV's videojournalism panel, "Exploring the digital transformation of video news reporting and distribution." The panelists consitute a veritable...
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Platypus Workshop in San Jose, 3/27 - 4/2

jerry l. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 2:30 am
For those who want hands-on lessons in videojournalism, the Digital Journalist's Platypus Workshop for February is sold out, but there's still time to register for the March 27 - April 2 session at San Jose (CA) State University. Platypus founder and leader Dirck Halstead writes: You will learn how ...
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Pine Point is Dead. Long Live 'Pine Point'

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 31, 2011, 3:02 am
What's the best way to tell a story about a town that disappeared? Pine Point was a northern Canadian mining town that closed in 1988. Evacuated. Demolished. Gone. Everyone moved away. But the residents had to go somewhere. And wherever those families and individuals are, Pine Point is still alive...
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Learn Videojournalism Online from Top Pros

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 29, 2011, 12:49 am
We're proud to announce that KobreGuide is officially an affiliate of the New York Video School (NYVS), an online education center created by pioneering videojournalist Michael Rosenblum. NYVS provides anyone with a video camera an easy and affordable way to learn to make films and videos like a Ho...
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Doctorian to Focus on Multimedia Storytelling for Washington Post

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2011, 11:32 am
Congrats to Sonya Doctorian, new deputy director of photography at the Washington Post. She will focus primarily on photo projects, staff development and multimedia storytelling. Doctorian is an independent online videojournalist based in Denver who joined the Rocky Mountain News in 2003 as projects...
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Beet.TV's Online Videojournalism Summit

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2011, 10:18 am
Look at all these heavy-hitters who will be on the panel of Beet.TV's Online Video Journalism Summit, which will be streamed live on Feb. 1 (9-11:30 am ET). The topic is "Exploring the digital transformation of video news reporting and distribution." Moderaters: Alex Weprin Editor...
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The Real Mystery of the Lost Roll of Film

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 26, 2011, 6:45 pm
Todd Bieber (pictured) was cross-country skiing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after a recent blizzard and spotted a canister of film lying in the snow. What happens next became the subject of a YouTube video that Bieber made, which documents his processing the black-and-white images ("I was in awe of...
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Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 25, 2011, 12:45 pm
Congratulations to all Academy Awards nominees for Best Documentary (feature) and Best Documentary (short subject), announced today. Since these categories traditionally take a back seat to the more familiar and glamorous Oscar nominees for feature films, we thought we'd provide you with links to t...
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Ira Glass: This American Sermon

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 24, 2011, 1:37 pm
When "This American Life" host Ira Glass (pictured) talks about storytelling, we listen. Huffington Post's religion editor Paul Brandeis Raushenbush has resurrected an interview that he conducted for BeliefNet.com in 2008: "Ira Glass, Religion and the Empathetic Power of Storytelling." Religion? ...
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Ford Foundation Pumps $50 Million into Documentaries

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2011, 4:16 pm
Some rare good news for documentary producers and fans. This week the Ford Foundation launched a $50-million, 5-year initiative to find and support "next-generation" nonfiction filmmakers whose themes address urgent social issues. The new project is called JustFilms. According to Ford Foundation p...
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Making Stuff with David Pogue

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2011, 1:19 pm
For your weekend viewing pleasure, we share with you the first episode of "Making Stuff," PBS's new four-part NOVA series exploring the materials that will shape our future. It's hosted by popular New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, with an entertaining mixture of wonder and humor. The...
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Welcome to Dhaka, the World's Fastest Growing Megacity

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2011, 1:18 am
The United Nations estimates there are now about 20 "megacities" on the planet -- urban areas where the population exceeds 10 million. The fastest growing is Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Dhaka is the subject of a five-part multimedia series, "Rise of the Megacities," in the Global Post, a rel...
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Documentary: A Year Inside the N.Y. Times

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 20, 2011, 2:57 am
As the 11th Sundance Film Festival opens today in Park City, Utah, one of the most anticipated documentaries is “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times” by Andrew Rossi, who, as the title suggests, spent a year following the fabled institution's reporters and editors. According to Kara Swish...
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Creative Navigation for Complex Video Projects

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 17, 2011, 1:25 pm
Here's a multimedia project with an alluring navigation scheme that shows some creative planning and thinking. It's an interactive Web documentary produced for the Web by Australia's SBS TV that explores the lives of African refugees and immigrants living within Australia, appropriately titled "Afr...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Man of Peace in a Time of War

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 14, 2011, 6:15 pm
A rare and candid TV interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- unseen in 40 years -- is the centerpiece of this timely hour-long tribute, courtesy of SnagFilms. It features exclusive interviews with Jesse Jackson and Colin Powell that provide fresh insight into the life and personality of the late c...
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Newsday, News12 Join Forces for N.Y. Gubernatorial Campaign Documentary

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 14, 2011, 3:19 am
Newsday teamed up with with local news station News12 to produce an inside look at one of the most dramatic gubernatorial contests in New York State history. Videojournalist John Paraskevas and reporter Thomas Maier produced "Campaign Season: The 2010 Race for Governor" in seven chapters, posted th...
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Videos Explore Rape in Haiti & South Africa

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 13, 2011, 2:15 am
Two recent online video documentaries explore separate cultural perspectives on the issue of rape. "Inside the Cycle of Rape" (PBS/Frontline) examines a warden's attempt to rehabilitate a group of perpetrators in a South African prison. Reporter Elena Ghanotakis (pictured) went to Cape Town for th...
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The Kalish Workshop for Visual Storytelling

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 11, 2011, 11:25 pm
The annual Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop has trained more than 1,000 journalists in visual storytelling since its inception in 1990 at Marquette University in Milwaukee. It was launched in memory of the pioneering picture editor of the Milwaukee Journal who co-wrote the first definitive book ...
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Out My Window: 360-degree Interactive Documentary

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 10, 2011, 4:18 pm
"For most of my life, I've despised highrise buildings," writes Canadian documentary director Katerina Cizek. "It was with considerable humility that I began to examine my own relationship to the urban and the vertical." The result is a massively ambitious multimedia undertaking that Cizek has spea...
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Clueless in Columbus

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 9, 2011, 4:47 am
Here are five lessons the media should learn from the Columbus Dispatch's video story about Ted Williams. (That golden-throated homeless guy does have a name.) * 1. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The gift horse we're talking about is not Williams. By now you've probably read that the Dispatc...
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Giving Voice to a Panhandler's Story

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 5, 2011, 11:52 am
Everybody's got a story. You just gotta stop and ask them. That's what Columbus (OH) Dispatch videojournalist Doral Chenoweth III discovered when he asked to hear the "God-given gift of voice" that a panhandling homeless man advertised on a cardboard sign off a freeway ramp: "I'm an ex-radio announc...
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Aron Ralston Redux

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 4, 2011, 5:36 pm
It's been nearly two years since KobreGuide to the Web's Best Videojournalism showcased the short New York Times video "Being Aron Ralston," about the young Colorado mountain climber trapped by a boulder for six days before he amputated his arm to escape death. Ralston is currently portrayed by act...
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Time's Best Photos of 2010

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 4, 2011, 2:15 pm
Here are links to Time magazine's Best Photos of 2010: * The Best Photos from the Pages of TIME A gallery of the images that shaped our world * Pictures of the Year 2010 The most unforgettable images of the year * The Best Portraits from TIME 2010 A gallery of newsmakers from the pages of the maga...
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Missing Persons: Behind the Scenes

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 3, 2011, 8:56 pm
By Eric Seals Staff Photographer Detroit Free Press Shooting and producing video at the Detroit Free Press has often involved searching for features or slice-of-life stories that let me be creative and have fun telling a story, while constantly challenging myself. Sometimes, however, I like to prod...
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Discovering Vivian Maier

jerry l. posted an article on - Jan 2, 2011, 3:40 am
She may be the best photographer you never heard of. Starting in the 1950s, Vivian Maier shot over 100,000 pictures -- mostly of Chicago street scenes -- but she recently went to her grave with none of her work published or exhibited. In fact, about a third of her images were still on undeveloped ro...
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RIP Kodachrome, 1935-2010

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 30, 2010, 3:56 am
The last rolls of Kodachrome, the most revered film for color slides for the past 75 years, are being developed today at Dwayne's Photo, a small family business in Parsons, Kansas. Then the last Kodachrome processing machine will be shut down and sold for scrap, rendered obsolete by digital technolo...
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Newspapers Upload More Video Than TV Broadcasters

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2010, 4:56 pm
Here's the best news of the year... so far. Newspapers have surpassed TV broadcasters in the number of online video uploads and total minutes streamed. Now we're not saying that all those videos are any good. Most, alas, are dreadful. Or nothing more than raw footage of local high school teams. But ...
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Newspaper Wins DuPont Broadcast Award

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2010, 12:43 am
What's remarkable about the 13 recipients of this year's Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for national broadcast journalism is that, amidst the usual alphabet-soup suspects (ABC, CBS, PBS, BBC, NPR), we find the Las Vegas Sun. Videojournalism stories on the Websites of print newspapers (...
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Videojournalism Opportunity in Detroit

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 27, 2010, 2:18 pm
One of our favorite newspapers is hiring a staff photographer. Nowadays, because their work will appear not just in print, but also on the Web and mobile platforms, that also means videographer. In fact, a glance at their help-wanted ad is testimonial to how many disparate skills visual journalists...
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Animated News to the Rescue? No!

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 25, 2010, 5:50 pm
What fresh hell is this? Animated news stories? The new savior of journalism? Just because the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation has attracted a lot of eyeballs by turning news stories into cartoons doesn't mean it's journalism. Movies "based on true stories" are still fictionalized re-imagi...
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How Boston Pizza Affects a Brazilian Farm Town

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 17, 2010, 9:20 pm
"From Brazil to Beacon Hill" demonstrates how a video can help illuminate a complex story -- in this case, about a complicated relationship between a Boston pizza empire and the tiny South American farm town of Marilac that helped build it. It's a story of negative unintended consequences, involving...
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Can Your Documentary Change the World?

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 15, 2010, 5:27 pm
If you're in the Los Angeles area, check out a panel discussion presented by the International Documentary Association: "Can Your Documentary Really Change the World?" Topics: * How can you make sure that your documentary has the greatest possible impact? * What kinds of outreach and marketing cam...
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WikiRebels: The Documentary

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 14, 2010, 5:45 pm
Here is a rough cut of an hour-long in-depth documentary, in four parts, produced by Sweden's SVT network, that gives the WikiLeaks story a different dimension than all the written and video pieces we have seen so far. From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive ...
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One Video is Worth 120,000 Bits of Data

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 12, 2010, 12:36 pm
Hans Rosling teaches global health. He knows how to make numbers interesting. Raw data, he realizes, is not enough -- he needs to "show it in ways that people enjoy and understand." For a BBC segment, The Joy of Stats, he does that by animating data in real space -- a remarkably engaging and effecti...
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AIDS and the Elderly

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 9, 2010, 9:33 pm
AARP Bulletin produced this online video story, Standing Up to Stigma, in honor of last week's 22nd anniversary of World AIDS Day. It's about a septuagenarian stigmatized by perceptions of AIDS and HIV, even (especially?) among the elderly. Robert Franke (pictured), 77, is a retired college provost...
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First Platypus Workshop for 2011

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2010, 12:51 am
Dirck Halstead's next Platypus Workshop for videojournalism will be held February 13-19, 2011 at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. "The only thing you need to supply is your own DSLR capable of shooting HD video. We also recommend you get a Zacuto finder for the camera as well as a hard driv...
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NPPA Advanced Storytelling Workshop

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2010, 11:20 am
Take advantage of early-registration discounts and sign up now for NPPA's Advanced Storytelling Workshop The week-long program (April 10-15, 2011) at Texas State University (San Marcos, TX) is designed for experienced television and newspaper photographers, reporters, and video journalists – "anyo...
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Alexia Photojournalism Award Deadlines Announced

jerry l. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2010, 10:56 am
The Alexia Foundation has announced the deadlines for its 22nd annual photojournalism grant competition. The professional grant proposals and accompanying photographic portfolio are due January 18, 2011 (5pm ET), and the student deadline is February 1, 2011(5pm ET). Contest administrator Tom Kenn...
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