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Just wanted to pass along a cool multimedia piece I came across. This is the producer's first multimedia project and I think it is very well done. There's a stretch of silence about 3/4 of the way through that is very powerful. The producer is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, which is where I also studied creative nonfiction and radio product… Continue

Received a crash course in photoshop, soundtrack pro, finalcut pro and flash in the last three days. Dreamweaver is on deck for this afternoon. My head is about to explode, but this stuff is great. Now how to utilize these skills back in the news room? Hmm...

We had a talk this morning from Richard Koci Hernandez, deputy director of photography at the San Jose Mercury News. He's a very talented artist and a very inspiring speaker. He considers himself a storyteller, works as a journalist, but creates videos and multimedia projects that are pure art. Check out his site and tell me what you think.

A couple of multimedia guys from the Las Vegas Sun spoke with us yesterday about what they've done with that paper's site in the last eight months. Here's some cool examples of multimedia projects they've done.
This is story on construction deaths on the strip is a good example of how to tackle webcentric journalism.
This is a cool… Continue

It's my first full day at a week-long multimedia training at the Knight Digital Media Center at UC-Berkeley. We're going over storyboarding this morning, and what mediums to use for what type of stories. Yesterday, we had an introduction to webcentric journalism and a couple multimedia journalists from the Las Vegas Sun. If you haven't checked out the cool multimedia stuff the Las Vegas Sun has been doing, check it out. Her… Continue