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Cynmccune bookmarked on 2009-03-31 future of news newspapers web photography multimedia storytelling
  • the newspaper will need to establish a print and Web infrastructure flexible enough for stories to be told in the medium (or mix of media) for which they are best suited.
  • There remains the problem of how to decide which tool to use when gathering multimedia and print assets. This is the professional leap of faith that is required to feel comfortable in the "shift."



    In the movie, MediaStorm Founder and CEO Brian Storm     http://www.mediastorm.org talks about the concept of trust. "Editors don't have a problem trusting photographers in the field when it comes to choosing between a wide angle or a telephoto (lens)," Storm said in Portland on June 2. "Now they'll have to get comfortable letting photographers decide whether it's video or audio, or audio and stills."
  • Photojournalists begin learning multimedia with their core competency in decisive moment-based still photography, and then apply their stills "chops" and original point of view to video, which is hungry for the "decisive sequence."
  • Learning multimedia is a lot like learning music. You have to get your "chops" on one instrument.
  • Slide shows are a good entry point for timeline-based newspaper Web site storytelling. However, in all but a few beautiful cases, slide shows are not optimal web storytelling.
  • Since the invention of the World Wide Web in 1992, newspapers have tried just about everything to "look interactive". The truth of the matter is that a newspaper can't be interactive.
  • In the near future, I think, the printed page will become more valuable to readers in the FM sense -- it will be reserved for the news that needs to be embraced and kept at hand. Newspaper Web sites are already taking on the AM radio role of delivering breaking information to readers as stories develop.
  • As we consider newspapering's shift from dots on paper to pixels on plasma, it's helpful to consider radio. National Public Radio represents the thoughtful, compelling "think piece" style of journalism we associate with the Sunday paper (Weekend Edition Sunday even has the Sunday Puzzle). AM radio news, on the other hand, deals with news by the hour (or by the minute, as need be) to get breaking information to listeners.
  • Negroponte's theory about the ongoing shift from wired to wireless was part of his greater assertion that we are rapidly moving from "atoms to bits."
  • it makes sense that there's a "shift" under way. This shift is as important to today's journalists as the invention of hot type and the halftone process were to the journalists at the turn of the previous century.

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  • 31 Mar 09
    cynmccune
    Cynthia McCune

    future of news newspapers web photography multimedia storytelling

    • the newspaper will need to establish a print and Web infrastructure flexible enough for stories to be told in the medium (or mix of media) for which they are best suited.
    • There remains the problem of how to decide which tool to use when gathering multimedia and print assets. This is the professional leap of faith that is required to feel comfortable in the "shift."



      In the movie, MediaStorm Founder and CEO Brian Storm       http://www.mediastorm.org talks about the concept of trust. "Editors don't have a problem trusting photographers in the field when it comes to choosing between a wide angle or a telephoto (lens)," Storm said in Portland on June 2. "Now they'll have to get comfortable letting photographers decide whether it's video or audio, or audio and stills."
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