Last week hell froze over at The Spokesman-Review. The long awaited redesign of our website is finally underway. Meetings are being held, code is being written and timelines have been set in stone.
One of my longtime frustrations as a multimedia producer is that my newspaper’s website is, well, a tad bit outdated. My only [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 28, 2008
With coming redesign, a new era begins
April 26, 2008
Improving the NPPA Monthly Multimedia Contest
Angela Grant at Newsvideographer.com has started a conversation about how to improve the NPPA Monthly Multimedia Contest. As contest chairman, my co-worker Brian Immel and me are tasked with coming up with an update that will improve judging and allow people to give feedback on the entries.
I posted this reply over at newsvideographer.com that started [...]
April 19, 2008
How to make your video editing easier
Every time I start a new project in Final Cut Pro, I get an anxious feeling as I stare at that blank timeline. This is a critical time for all editors, because it means you have to finally commit to the story you want to tell. Unlike video editors working on long-term documentaries, newspaper videojournalists [...]
April 11, 2008
Rosenblumtv.com: Rabble-rousing at its finest
You gotta love Michael Rosemblum over at Rosenblumtv.com The man knows how to make the media cogs squirm in their seats.
The web offers not just another platform for distribution of product, but rather an entirely new calculus for how an online media company can be run. By its very nature, it changes the construct of [...]
April 5, 2008
Contest season leaves an impression
In the last month or so I have judged four multimedia contests. After watching a bushel newspaper-produced video, I began to see a lot of patterns in the productions. Unfortunately, not all of it was good. From the entries, I could tell that a majority of the video producers were just starting their journey into [...]
