Online video comes in several varities: High-production television-like voiceover projects, first person story telling videos, and utilitarian (uncut) segments.
This Burning Man feature captures first-person narratives of the annual event, and Crisis in Darfur shows a packaged presentation from backpack journalist Travis Fox.

Categories: Newsroom '08

Podcasting involves capturing & editing audio and then formatting it for automated online delivery, usually via iTunes. Podcasts are built using an RSS feed, and iTunes uses the RSS code to grab the most recent podcast and downloads it to an iPod. Actually, the RSS just points to an audio mp3 file, which can […]

Categories: Newsroom '08

Writing online news in a converged environment (radio-TV-print-online) requires general knowledge of broadcast vernacular and writing styles. In general, broadcast news limits news reports to less than three minutes. Reporters seldom talk more than 40 seconds, regardless of whether it’s a live shot or in-studio shot.
Online and broadcast share what I would describe as a […]

Categories: Newsroom '08

Online maps are sometimes used with stories to illustrate the location of the news event. The Rocky Mountain News uses map snippets with locator pinpoints, and the Denver Post uses an online map to locate homes lit with holiday lights and a Yahoo AJAX map in combination with Yahoo Pipes to pinpoint recent earthquakes.
Both […]

Categories: Newsroom '08