Using soundslides
We’ve gone over Soundslides in the Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism course. This tool is used around the world by small to mid-sized online news sites that do not have their own Flash developers creating customized templates. It is extremely simple to use and powerful–especially attractive to print journalists who today must also produce multimedia. This [...]
Read more →ONA Awards judging
I served as a judge for the 2007 Online Journalism Awards. The judging took place at USC over two days in early September. It was amazing to see how the quality of the work online keeps improving each year. I won this award in 2003 but that work now seems so quaint technically–though just as [...]
Read more →“New Breed of Media Prepares for Post-war Iraq” piece on KCET.org, LA’s PBS
I wrote a piece about how at this nascent stage organizations like Alive in Baghdad are focused on telling unique stories that are not found in the mainstream media. But they are also preparing for a larger role they will play in the near future by steadily building a larger audience, and more importantly, by [...]
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