Last photo post: A photographer’s winter Olympics

My former photo editor Troy Wayrynen shoots the Olympics every other year, lucky dog, and posted his images to this site. I wouldn’t normally post yet more photos, but what makes these ones interesting to you, dear students, are his captions. Troy explains what it took to get these photos — going for his own gold medal of sorts. He tells us, the viewer, where he shot the photos and what camera...

Don’t be a “low-rent Ira Glass wannabe”

I asked friends on Facebook for audio visual inspirations, and college pal Katy Aronoff posted the following: “There are some great examples from NPR of how well-produced audio can tell a story. I know everyone thinks of Ira Glass when this subject comes up, and I’m as big a fan of This American Life as anyone, but there are ways to do this that don’t involve mimicking that formula and...

The Amazin Jerkz.

Video by my friend Casey Parks, Oregonian reporter who makes multimedia projects on her own time (caseyinpictures.blogspot.com). Check it out. The Amazin Jerks from Casey Parks on...

What is it we assume people know?

21st century media literacies from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Author and Stanford Professor Howard Rheingold contemplates literacy in our day. “What’s important now not access to hardware and access to internet but access to knowledge, 21st century literacy,” he says. The tenets of literacy: 1. Attention 2. Participation 3. Collaboration 4. Network savvy 5. Critical consumption, or, he says,...

NYTimes: Audio slideshow example

Check out the New York Times’ One in 8 Million audio slideshow feature. Here’s one among many. This is along the lines of what you’re doing in...