DIGITAL JOURNALISM 101By Anna Young

What is Multimedia Journalism?Journalism is about people, not technology. …. But the tools have never been better.

What is the main purpose of newspapers (print media)? - TV? -Radio?

The Web allows to break boundaries And provides audience 24\7

What is Multimedia Journalism?The best multimedia stories are multi-dimensional. They include:- action for video,- a process that can be illustrated with a graphic (e.g., "how

tornadoes form" or "how this new surgery works"),- strong quotes for video or audio, - and/or powerful emotions for still photos and audio.

Use the strengths of each medium to tell the story in a way that draws in readers.

Nonlinear, not redundant• Nonlinear - rather than reading a rigidly structured single

narrative, the user chooses how to navigate through the elements of a story.

• Not redundant means that rather than having a text version of a story accompanied by a video clip that essentially tells the same story, different parts of a story are told using different media. The key is using the media form – video, audio, photos, text, animation – that will present a segment of a story in the most compelling and informative way.

Context and Continuity • This could include everything from databases,

• timelines, • Infoboxes, • lists of related stories,• links to other resources, • online forums.

What is and what isn’t a multimedia story?

• EXAMPLES

• http://www.cnn.com/ • http://mashable.com/• https://www.guardian.com/• https://www.washingtonpost.com/• https://gigaom.com/channel/media/• http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=t

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• http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/serengeti-lion/index.html#/serengeti

Reporter-driven vs. editor- driven • Reporter-driven• Editor-driven

• Book: what would Google do?

What job can I get in journalism?• Use a wide-angle lens when viewing the world. • - be ready for what’s coming next.

Feed your journalistic curiosity and starve your journalistic skepticism. - answering questions for yourself- become an early adapter

Collaborate

History of multimedia storytellingPong (1972) – Nintendo’s Home Pong

1976 Jobs and Wozniak, Apple II 1981 IBM1984 Macintosh1985 Windows1988 Macromedia – Director program = Macromedia Flash

Digital Information• How do you weight your files?

• Byte – is a unit of measure for digital information.

• Bites – 1 byte contains 8 consecutive bits and is capable of storing a single character (The American Standard Code for Information Interchange – ASCII- 95 printable characters that create text)

Kilo , Mega, Giga http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes.htm

Byte and Bite Kilo K 2^10 = 1,024

 

Mega M 2^20 = 1,048,576 

Giga G 2^30 = 1,073,741,824

Tera T 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 

Peta P 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 

Exa E 2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976

Internet and WWW• Internet – network of connected computers that share

information.

• WWW – a way of accessing information through the network, using HTTP and Web browsers.

• (hypertext transfer protocol)

• Server

• URL or Web Address = www.yahoo.com VS • http://209.131.136.158 IP (Internet protocol)

Web-Browsers• A tool to access information over the Internet that is

published as a part of WWW

• It searches for and finds information on Web servers• It retrieves the information and brings it back to you.• It renders the information for display on your device.

• IT MAKES A COPY OF THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF A WEB PAGE – CACHE.

Better Googling• Operators – search terms

• What:

• NYTimes articles about test scores in college, but not SATs, written between 2008 and 2010

The formula • Site: Only searches the pages of that site• “ “ Searches for the exact phrases, not each of the

words separately• - Excludes this term from the search.

• ~ Will also search related words, such as “ higher education” and “ university”

• .. Shows all results from within the designated time range

Solution

Site:nytimes.com ~college “test scores” -SATs 2008..2010

Academic searchGoogle scholar

Papers about photosynthesis by Dr.Roland L.Green and Dr. Thomas P.Buzz

Academic search Solution• Author: this will search for papers by Green rather than

papers involving the word green.

• “ “ for more specific results, you can put the authors full name in quotes.

• Author:green photosynthesis “tp buttz”

Other Google Tricks• Define : angry

• For a calculator, just type the equation using +, -, *,/, ()

• Unit Converter , just type 54 pounds in kilograms

Shortcuts• Command + F Find something

• Command +/- Zoom In/Zoom out

• Command+L Select the Address Bar

• Command+Shift+3 Screencaps your whole screen• Command+Shift+4 lets you draw a box around a specific

area

• Source:http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/

Sources• Journalism Next: A practical guide to publishing. Mark

Brigg• Coorough, C. (2001). Multimedia and the Web. Orlando,

FL: Harcourt, Inc. Lake, S. E. & Bean, K. (2004). Multimedia and Image Management. Mason, OH: Thomson SouthWestern. Shuman, J. (2002). Multimedia Concepts, Enhanced Edition—Illustrated Introductory. Boston, MA: Thomson Course Technology. Solomon, A.W. (2004). Introduction to Multimedia. Woodland Hills, CA: Glencoe/McGrawHill. Vaughan, T. (2001). Multimedia: Making it Work (5th ed.). Berkley, CA: Osborne/McGrawHill.