Guru: Teacher of wisdom, literally, one who takes you from darkness to light. Richard Koci Hernandez seems to fit that description in the realm of multimedia. I first met him at an ACP conference in San Francisco last spring. It was the most inspiring seminar I’d ever witnessed. He talked about breaking the rules and Read More
Guest blog by Ryan Chartrand The problem Newspapers have made some pretty desperate moves in the last few years. They’ve cut pages, cut staff, cut paychecks, but then decided to try to add social networking to their Web sites. Sure, it was a great idea; the problem was they were too busy cutting and scrambling Read More
Richard Koci Hernandez, an Emmy-winning multimedia photojournalist who just left the SJ Mercury News to work at Berkeley, said the switch from the newsroom to the classroom was easy. “I was already teaching in the newsroom, so it was a seamless transition,” he said via a recent e-mail interview. Newsrooms are a place where people Read More
You’ve probably heard old photography rule of thumb, but do you understand it? I always thought the “rule of thirds” meant to compose your subject into one of three evenly-split sections, either horizontally or vertically. As I quickly learned in my photojournalism class: I was wrong. Rule of thirds: A photography/design guideline that composes the Read More
Google Calendars Things to schedule: Budget meetings Deadlines Must-cover events Special editions Why it’s useful: Can be shared with everyone on staff Collaborative – everyone can contribute Embeddable Google Documents What to use it for? Stories: If the newsroom server goes down, it’s good to have all your stories saved somewhere remotely (or, if a Read More
If you know a thing or two about graphic/web design, make your résumé mirror your knowledge. When a “new media” journalist has a résumé made off a Microsoft Word template, it shows nothing about the creativity that person has. I recently redesigned my résumé to give it that Twittery feel. Why? Using elements that are Read More
I have never experienced anything like watching live comments on a VP debate as it happens: http://election.twitter.com/ Web 2.0 is truly amazing… More on this later…
The big Chicago Tribune redesign has been released and, not surprisingly, it’s not the version that was heavily circulated around the Web that featured the title “Trib.” Here are a few before and afters: A prototype that surfaced the web last week showed a front page the read “Trib” big and bold across the masthead– Read More
While walking to class, taking a jog or driving to the store, you probably always find yourself coming up with great topics to blog about. The only problem: six hours later, you have no idea what those topics were. So, today’s tip for other amateur bloggers — write the ideas down as they come to Read More