Multimedia excellence from the Emmys
I’ve spent the past couple of days checking out the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards, especially those in the “New Approaches to News and Documentary” categories. Wow, what a group! These nominees have provided a pretty clear vision for the future of visual journalism – a future where storytelling meets interactivity – and it [...]
Voices from the Future of Journalism
Forty of the country’s top college journalists traveled to the Poynter Institute in May 2009 for an intensive multimedia bootcamp. During the fellowship, Greg Linch, Nic Barajas and I asked the group why they’re pursuing careers in journalism and what the future holds. We have collected their responses and built them into a Web site [...]
Storytelling advice from three different mediums
The Minnesota News Photographers Association held their 2010 convention this weekend highlighting some of the best in photojournalism. The convention has always been an interesting place to reflect on some of the changes in visual journalism with many of the attendees coming from a traditional newspaper background. For the final presentation at this year’s conference, [...]
The art of the baseball time-lapse video
1) Target Field opening day time lapse Ben Garvin – Pioneer Press See the Twins home opener in miniature compiling thousands of photos and using tilt-shift lenses. 2) World Series time lapse Robert Caplin – Freelance Photographer This is a time-lapse compilation of over 5,000 images taken from dozens of locations inside and outside of [...]
WCCO moves into the future with “The Wire”
WCCO-TV started building a local news network on Thursday with its launch of The Wire, an interactive Web application that allows users to follow news stories as they develop throughout the day. The Wire includes a linear timeline of local news that tracks breaking news in real time. The timeline drives traffic to wcco.com using [...]
The murder of journalist Arthur Kasherman
In 1945, newspaper publisher Arthur Kasherman was gunned down on a snowy street in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Was he a crusader for justice, or a low-life who angered the underworld once too many? Watch the video, read the stories and maybe you’ll solve a 65-year-old murder mystery. About the Site Rubbed Out is an experiment in [...]
Multimedia inspiration from #wjchat
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, multimedia journalists from around the country participated in a Web journalism chat moderated by Mark Luckie, author of the blog 10,000 Words and the Digital Journalists Handbook! Here’s a collection of the top projects mentioned during the chat. #wjchat is a weekly Twitter conversation for web journalists. We talk about all [...]
Learning innovation from the “Easy Raise”
In fourth grade, I had a brilliant idea that would completely revolutionize the future of elementary education. Okay, maybe not, but it was awesome! I decided to reinvent the “hand raise” using an ice-fishing flag and some suction cups. This invention would solve a serious problem. Teachers wanted to encourage class participation, but young students [...]
Interactive multimedia from scratch
As part of my course work at the University of Minnesota, I wanted to produce an interactive multimedia project on the economic crisis. After following a couple other student projects, like Soul of Athens and Andaman Rising, I knew exactly what I wanted to do and had absolutely no idea how to do it. Three [...]
Best Projects and Posts of 2009
Projects Times of Recession Times of Recession was a multimedia project that featured seven Minnesotans and the recession’s impact on each of their lives. The project was nominated for an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy in September and the videos ran individually on MinnPost.com. Built using Flash and AS3, this project was Ewen Media’s first interactive [...]
The Other Future of News (2 of 2)
Please note: This is part two of a two-part post. A couple weeks ago, David Brauer and Taylor Carik hosted the Other Future of News conference, a response to Minnesota Public Radio’s Future of News event in mid-November. The conference was divided into three sessions, including organizational change, tech tools and content. Here’s a couple [...]
Learning online video from the “White Castle lady”
Here’s a link to my Other Future of News (#ofon) presentation on “making the most of online video.” Please take a look and let me know what you think! The Other Future of News conference took place on December 12, 2009, and was a response to MPR’s Future of News event that took place earlier [...]
The best multimedia is the kind you can’t do – yet
Recently, when talking with multimedia journalist Jeff Achen, I was asked how young journalists could develop the skills necessary to compete in a new media environment. At the time, I wasn’t really sure. However, when I watched this video (see below), it all made sense. As a Minnesotan, I was born loving Herb Brooks’s famous [...]
Storytelling done right
With the Upper Midwest Regional Emmys taking place on Saturday, I thought it would be fun to post some of my favorite video stories. I could probably make an entire post with just Boyd Huppert’s stories, but I thought I’d share the love. Add your favorites below! 1) Portrait of Compassion 2) High school wrestlers [...]
Winning the (video) story
As of late, I’ve been thinking a lot about the best way for newspapers to compete with TV stations to win the big video stories of the day. When I started working with newspaper video, my goal was always to be first. Since the web offered an opportunity to upload a video at any time, [...]
Nominated for an Emmy!
Ewen Media has been nominated for an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy nomination for its latest project, Times of Recession. This is the organization’s first Emmy nomination and a tremendous honor to be associated with some of the top journalists in the Upper Midwest region. This is a very exciting moment and it’s great to see [...]
Corporate sponsors for journalism
I recently came across this incredible video by Matt Harding. The video was both fun and creative, but after reading the back story on the project, it seems like there are a couple lessons that freelance journalists can learn from the video. First, before pitching the project, Harding already started working on his idea (demos, [...]
Finding moments
Here’s a video by Will Hoffman that tries to define a “moment” in time. It’s definitely interesting to see how one moment, lasting no longer than a second, can generate such strong emotion. Then put all those moments into one piece and wow:
New site!
Thanks for checking out my new site! In the upcoming months, I’ll be blogging about some of the best multimedia techniques on the web and be sharing some examples of great storytelling. Stay tuned!
