Category Archives: 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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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. … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
