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More Twitter tips for journalists
Ryan Sholin posted more useful talk about Twitter for gathering and reporting news today over at the MediaShift Idea Lab, an online project of the U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS). It’s a great companion to the KCNN Twitter module.
An interesting side note: I learned about this post from Sholin himself. I follow him on Twitter. [...]
This Just In—from GroundReport.com
A blogging friend forwarded this email today from GroundReport.com:
Global citizen journalism website GroundReport.com is looking to for Middle East correspondents and we were wondering if you could spread the word to the bloggers you feature on your site. We think it would be a great way for both us and them to reach out to [...]
Digital Audio & Video Editing
There are two main distinctions between editing digital audio and video and analog audio and video (you know, magnetic reel-to-reel tape and celluloid film).
The digital editing process is:
1. Nondestructive
2. Nonlinear
Editing both audio and video comprises a sequence of decisions that will produce an infinite number of unique variations that vary according to the author’s voice.
There [...]
Editing Adham with Audacity
Adham Najdi is a young Lebanese man who was severely injured by a cluster bomb that exploded near his grandfather’s house in Srifa, Lebanon, after the July War of 2006. I interviewed Adham on several occasions. The sample audio file we’ll use comes from one of these interview. I edited Adham’s interview down to about [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )We’re Learning About Image Sizes for the Web
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Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )International Journalists Network
AUB’s Journalism Training Program director Magda Abu-Fadil sent a link to the International Journalists’ Network website, which offers a range of resources in Arabic, English, Farsi, Portuguese, Spanish and a weekly e-mail bulletin in one of these five languages. IJN has also recently inaugurated a column about online journalism called Webb on the Web that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Online Journalism Atlas
Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog has started an atlas of online journalism. Who volunteers to submit information for Lebanon?
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