Margaret’s 3rd year journalism blog

New Tools: Free Photo Gallery Tools
 
As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, one of the strengths of the web, is the ability to upload photo galleries. This enables news agencies to depict stories more effectively through a series of frames. Some Flash photo gallery sites have galleries that are appropriate for embedding onto a news website, [...]

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New tools for reporting: Storybuilding
The online world makes it easier for journalists to continue storybuilding when news develops throughout the day, week or months following. Essentially the internet enables reporters to add media such as video, audio interviews and even photo galleries of citizen generated images extremely quickly.
For example, the Hurricane Gustav story in today’s [...]

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Everyone a journalist? OhmyNews South Korea

With 60,000 correspondents, it’s the first news organisation with content derived entirely by citizen journalists. This certainly raises the question, what is a journalist?
 

In the opion of Oh Yeon-ho’s, founder and CEO of OhmyNews, a journalist is simply someone who finds something new, then writes about it and shares it with others. [...]

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Business models for multimedia journalism

An article in the Herald Sun boasted News Corp’s 57.2% profit lift, with the Wall Street Journal’s pay to view website gaining large amounts of profit with an 80% jump in online subscriptions.
Although, –unlike a newspaper– most people don’t pay to read daily online news, there are many other ways [...]

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Multimedia storytelling

Multimedia stories use a variety of media to portray a message, pushing the boundaries of traditional print, radio and video journalist roles. New age journalists require the ability to write, interview, frame an image, film action shots, edit and put the story together.
 
Many online news sites take advantage of multimedia stories to provide [...]

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Media Convergence: User Generated Content
 
In our highly technologicised world, citizen journalism is becoming more prominent, with members of the public able to take decent snaps or footage with tiny digital cameras or mobile phones. The concept allows people, aside from journalists, to contribute groundbreaking information and upload it for the world instantaneously.
 
With various forms [...]

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