Posts filed under “Poynter”
The online ethics seal: together we can be more transparent
At ONA 08 and a week later at Poynter Seminar on ethics, I talked about my online ethics seal idea. The idea is very simple — to form a series of ethics seals that Web sites, blogs and news organizations could embed on their Web sites. I want these seals to be in the same [...]
Final project at online storytelling seminar
I did my Poynter project on a no kill animal shelter in St. Petersburg. Now, the projects that most of us did probably would have been handled differently in a real-world situation. I spent a few hours at the shelter, but in real life, I would have spent more time. I would have called ahead [...]
Thumbs up for Online Storytelling seminar at Poynter
I can now officially recommend the Online Storytelling With Audio & Images seminar at Poynter. Creating an audio slideshow is easy. Creating a great audio slideshow is hard. This seminar can help show you how to make the latter. The seminar had many audio slideshow neophytes but also people who had some experience with audio [...]
More thoughts on Poynter
Multimedia journalism is one of those funny things in life. Most of the people producing it weren’t originally multimedia — they were monomedia. If you’re a photographer you just add some audio skills and all the sudden you have multimedia. Right? The unique problem of creating audio slideshows is often people work on them by [...]
Poynter day 2: Attitude is everything
I’ve noticed that many of the participants have done multimedia journalism before and used Soundslides. Those journalists, much like me, are not here to learn how to do something new, but rather how to do something better. Soundslides is one of those programs you can learn in five minutes. I’m not kidding. But knowing how [...]
Early thoughts at Poynter
One thing sticks out at the online storytelling seminar at the Poynter Institute: the background of those attending. Consider this: I can’t explain why this gulf exists, but it appears photojournalists are more willing to try learning new skills. One of the hosts said that photojournalists are more pliable than print reporters. Perhaps, it’s less [...]
Heading down to Florida for a Poynter seminar
I’ll be heading off to Poynter this Saturday for a seminar on online storytelling with audio and images. That means there will not be a lot of updates next week on the state of journalism and Web development. But it does mean there will be updates on the conference itself. I know a lot of [...]