This website is meant to serve as a companion to the printed text The Multimedia Journalist,by Jennifer George-Palilonis (Oxford University Press, 2012). 

Unit One: Multimedia Journalism

• CHAPTER ONE: Defining Multimedia
• CHAPTER TWO: Collaboration & Specialization
• CHAPTER THREE: Planning Multimedia
• CHAPTER FOUR: Navigation & Interactivity

Unit Two: Speaking the Language

• CHAPTER FIVE: Laying the Groundwork
• CHAPTER SIX: Writing
• CHAPTER SEVEN: Photojournalism
• CHAPTER EIGHT: Audio
• CHAPTER NINE: Video
• CHAPTER TEN: Information Graphics

Unit Three: Onward & Upward

• CHAPTER ELEVEN: Story Packaging
• CHAPTER TWELVE: The Future of News

The Multimedia Journalist

Verdens vakreste informasjon

Funksjonell, lekker og nyskapende informasjonsgrafikk kan sprite opp det tørreste tallmateriale - noe Information is Beautiful-prisen viser til gangs.

I klassen for datajournalistikk stakk Stamen Design LLC av med seieren for CNN Home and Away - en ekstremt omfattende presentasjon av døde soldater i Afghanistan og Irak.

Kilde: NRK

From photography to web-documentaries

Nowhere Safe is Samuel Bollendorff's latest web-documentary. It tells, in 16 portraits, the stories of 3.6m men and women in France who are living in precarious conditions due to poor housing [watch the web-documentary here].

The Frenchman has made his name producing web documentaries that often mash up still images with audio, video and text, and in 2008 one of his multimedia pieces was the first to feature on Le Monde’s website. It had a profound effect on his peers but, he says, it wasn’t new for him. “I’ve always tried to integrate text into my images. My parents are psychoanalysts so the act of speaking is important. My job is to transmit words and ideas.”

Samuel Bollendorff's Nowhere Safe - British Journal of Photography

Distrify

Distrify is a powerful suite of digital tools that turn the entire internet into a movie marketplace. Consumer behaviour and demand around the world are changing rapidly and Distrify provides a solution for the film industry to adapt to current trends. Attention-spans are shorter, people are avidly sharing things they like, people often won't wait until your official release in their country to watch your film. They want your film now. In the new film marketplace you need to make your film available to purchase immediately when the audience sees the trailer. The only way to do that is with Distrify

Distrify

3WDOC - Digital Storytelling in the Cloud

3WDOC is a revolutionary approach for digital communication. Designed to facilitate websites' creation and webdoc's creation, 3WDOC is the best rich media and interactive experience ever made in HTML5, planned for all audiences: Web, Mobile and TV.

3WDOC - Digital Storytelling in the Cloud - Features

Interactive documentary - Resources

INTERDOC.ORG

• Interactive documentary platform - research place

I-DOCS.ORG

• Interesting ideas on i-docs
• The docu-game. Towards the immersive mode
• Interactivity technologies, key factor for the interactive documentary
• The evolution of the Internet, key factor for the interactive documentary
• The evolution of the Internet, key factor for the interactive documentary (II)
• The interactive documentary during the evolution of the Internet: giving examples of the different phases. Assumptions about the technological future.
• Where we come from. Introduction and initial ingredients to build a correct taxonomic proposal
• Research questions and compared methodology to establish a taxonomic study of the interactive documentary
• Compared methodology to establish a taxonomic study of the interactive documentary (II)
• Taxonomic discussions in the educational context: key issues in relation to interactive documentary (I)
• Taxonomic discussions in the educational context: key issues in relation to interactive documentary (II)
• Differences between linear and interactive documentaries. Featuring the interactive documentary (I)
• Basic characteristics of the interactive documentary. Featuring the interactive documentary (II)
• "Flows of the visible: the expansion of the documentary", interesting masterclass by Professor Dr. Josep Maria Català (UAB)
• On the loss of control over the narrative. New roles on the interactive documentary (I)
• Significant differences between the two models. New roles on the interactive documentary (II)
• Why Canada? Story of an amazing experience (I)
• Why Canada? Story of an amazing experience (II)
• The i-docs' "evolution", in just 10 points ( + Sandra Gaudenzi)
• Non-fiction games structure: a successful formula for the interactive documentary
• Idea or technique? Interesting topics and technological simplicity: Honkytonk projects as case studies (I)
• Basic distinction between representation, navigation and interaction modes. Interactive documentary modalities (I)

INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY.NET

• A contribution from idocs specialist Arnau Gifreu Castells
• The i-docs' "evolution", in just 10 points
• Welcome to Pine Point

GENERAL

• Recercat (Quality research database / Spain, 2010 / Research PhD / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
• Geminis Journal num 2 (Electronic Publication / Brasil, 2011 / Unicamp, Sao Paulo)
• Hypertext.net (Electronic Publication / Spain, 2011 / Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
• McLuhan Galaxy (Conference Proceedings, Spain, 2011 / Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
• I-DOCS Symposium
• TAMK (Tampere Applied Sciences University) - Visiting Professor
• La Casa del Cine (Seminarios)
• Embed At

Arnau Gifreu Castells - Documental interactivo

5 egenskaper ved fremtidens journalist

Efter en tur igennem MIT’s MediaLab ser fremtidens nyhedsformidling og produktion både sjov og skræmmende ud. Sjov, hvis man kan finde ud af at programmere og er frisk på at teste en prototype; skræmmende, hvis man stadig bare gerne vil have sin avis trykt på tyndt papir og har det bedst med gennemtestede løsninger.

The Knight Foundation og MIT’s Media Lab bød i sidste uge indenfor til en konference om civic media – medier for og med borgere – under den poetiske overskrift: ”The Narrative and The Algorithm”. To tendenser, som Ethan Zuckerman, researcher på Berman Institute for Internet and Society på Harvard University, understregede i hans åbningstale var gennemgående temaer i det daglige arbejde med nye medieformer og måder at bedrive formidling på.

Kilde: Digitale tanker fra hverdagen

Enkel skjermskraping i Firefox

Skjermskraping – automatisk kopiering av større eller mindre mengder data fra en nettside for å lagre dem på din egen maskin eller server – kan være en litt teknisk krevende øvelse. Enten må du kunne såpass programmering at du kan skrive et script som henter eller du kan bruke et program som Kapow. 

 Nå har det kommet en mye enklere måte å gjøre det på som krever langt mindre teknisk innsikt: Firefox tillegget OutWit Hub. Sammenlignet med tidligere metoder for å gjøre dette er OutWit veldig enkel å bruke. Outwit gjør det også mye enklere å kopiere enkelttabeller og datasamlinger fra nettsider manuelt.
Kilde: Nedrelid.com

Slakter multimedie-journalistikk

Max Hastings, tidligere redaktør i de britiske avisene Daily Telegraph og Evening Standard, mener multimediejournalistikken er en blindgate.

Han ser medieledere som direkte fiender av journalistikken. Medieeierne kan snakke om flermedialitet og raske oppdateringer så mye de vil – hvis de ikke har respekt for journalistikken, går det galt uansett.

Hastings har heller ikke har han noe til overs for den moderne flokk-journalistikken – gode journalister skal gå sine egen veier, og lage sine egne saker.

• Les om slakten her

Kilde: Mediebedriftene.no

The Data Journalism Handbook

Welcome - The Data Journalism Handbook