Blog: Multimedia Maverick

Re-thinking visual journalism for the 21st century.

Seeing Stories in Skaneateles

Tags: journalism, Multimedia, Skaneateles, storytelling, students, Syracuse University, the Fall Workshop | Categories: Multimedia, Photojournalism, Visual Journalism, Workshops | Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 5:47 am

I just returned from a three and a half-day stint as a multimedia story coach at the Fall Workshop sponsored by Syracuse University for more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students in the Multimedia, Photography, and Design (MPD) departments of the Newhouse School. This year, the students documented life in the nearby town of Skaneateles, New York, recording audio, writing short stories, and shooting photos and video.

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NPR’s News iPhone App Sends a Signal

Tags: day-parting, iPhone, Kinsey Wilson, Mark Stencel, NPR, NPR Addict, NPR News App, open API, time-shifting | Categories: Audio, Innovation, Media Industry, Mobile Devices | Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 6:00 am

NPR’s release of their NPR News iPhone app is now almost a month old.

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Skype’s Value to “Digital Natives”

| Categories: Innovation, Media and Popular Culture, Multimedia, Visual Journalism | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

I am a big fan of the use of direct field observations to help stimulate new product innovations; a technique embraced by firms such as Ideo.

To that end, I have recently been watching my college-bound daughter and her friends interact as they all experience the beginning of their freshman year. Their media choices and media consumption patterns are particularly relevant to me as they are harbingers of a future that will be shaped by the habits of the first generation of “digital natives.”

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Value of Non-Verbal Visual Narrative

Tags: Advertising, art, Drake, Fricke, Glass, McLuhan, non-verbal communication, Reggio, Visual Journalism, visual narrative | Categories: Advertising, Innovation, Media and Popular Culture, Multimedia, Video, Visual Journalism | Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 5:04 pm

As I regroup after several weeks of personal and professional travel, I wanted to address an interesting question that was raised recently as I was doing a live discussion on video journalism for knowledgewebb.net.

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The Week in Pictures – Marking a Decade’s Vision at MSNBC.com

Tags: MSNBC.com, online, photography, Photojournalism, The Week in Pictures, Visual Journalism | Categories: Innovation, Media Industry, Multimedia, Photojournalism, Visual Journalism | Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Today, I wanted to acknowledge my multimedia colleagues at MSNBC.com marking the first decade of “The Week in Pictures”, or TWIP as it is known in the trade. MSNBC.com senior multimedia editor Meredith Birkett has put together a good behind-the-scenes look that details both the history and ambition of this presentation – a mainstay feature of their visual journalism presentation.

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