In a Word: Mediastorm

So clearly I’m focusing on professional photography here, and clearly few are at that level. Still, it helps to examine what the pros are doing. In fact, I recommend looking through the best photography blogs as akin to reading good fiction and poetry if you’re a writer — any kind of writer, including journalist. Also, check out these gorgeous photos by my friend Erika Schultz of the...

NPR’s The Picture Show

Strong captions, strong photos at NPR’s The Picture Show Blog. (Thanks to my friend KTA for the link.) Study these images and note that they’re taking from various heights, and that the photographer takes color into consideration. When you read the caption, take into account that it reads like a mini story — which is important because a lot of people read only the captions beneath the...

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...

Making of Women of Troy

Transom.org is a wonderful multimedia site and has this “making of” narrative worth checking out if you were taken by the gritty Women of Troy poetry-slam-audio-slideshow. From the site: About “In Verse” and “Women of Troy” “In Verse” is a multimedia reporting project combining poetry, photography and sound. The documentary poems will be broadcast on Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen...

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,...