Examples of Health coverage on the web
See examples of live-blogging, multimedia and community involvement related to health coverage on the web.
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News videos on the Web
Most news videos I find on the Website of newspaper websites or television news sites remind me of the early days of Web journalism: people took copy from the print version and shoveled it online.
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Caption Writing for Web Photo Slideshows
Writing captions for photographs displayed on the Web has many similarities to writing captions for photographs displayed in a newspaper–except we can add a lot more information.
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Writing SEO News Headlines
Traditional newspaper headline can be brilliant: literary, pithy and clever. Headline writers and editors love the creative play on words! Unfortunely, search engines don’t get the humor and could care less about the style. But why give a damn anyways about search engines??
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Instructions for transferring video, audio and photo files for LivesinFocus
Instructions for transferring video, audio and photo files 1. Visit http://www.mediafire.com 2. Click on “Create a Free Account” on the upper right hand corner if this is your first time using the site. You only need an email address to start a free account. 3. If you already have an free account, click on “Login” [...]
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Web audio examples
Audio for the Web does not mean taking a radio piece, uploading it to the Web and sticking a podcast label besides it. Here are some examples of how to use audio on the Web: NYT: Lasorda Reflects on Dodgertown Lives in Focus: Vietnam veteran’s Posttraumatic Stress Disorder rips family apart MSNBC: Part 3: Venturing [...]
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Royalty-Free Music for News Pieces
I often find that adding a little music to my news videos or audio pieces makes the pieces stronger. The music helps set a tone and create an appropriate mood. Before Kant Desai began producing most of the music for Lives in Focus, I relied mostly on Incompetech.com for royalty free music. I highly recommend [...]
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Using Still and Moving Images in Multimedia
I attended a talk in NYC put together by the American Society of Picture Professionals titled “Bridging the gap between still and moving images.” It was a presentation by the husband and wife team of Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur in which they detailed their evolution from photographer and writer respectively to collaborative multimedia storytellers. [...]
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