Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 21:04
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"Photographers at the Indianapolis Star have come up with a novel way to follow the NFL’s guidelines and produce video-like multimedia content — using time-lapse photography to create audio slideshows that look like video."
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 21:04
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Some impressive slideshows from the Midland Daily News in Michigan.
Friday, 31 August 2007, 17:31
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Soundslides presentation on how to identify manipulated photographs.
Friday, 6 April 2007, 12:05
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“Keith Jenkins and the judges of the Best of Photojournalism’s Best of the Web contest discuss audio slideshows, the ethics of using certain kinds of audio and the future of online video.”
Multimedia from the Telegraph newsroom
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 12:34
When Press Gazette editor Dominic Ponsford spent Budget Day in the Telegraph’s new multimedia newsroom, we sent along photographer James Young.
Some of his pictures appeared in the magazine this week, where we were able to print them large enough to do the new Telegraph newsroom justice. A slideshow featuring more of Young’s stills, along [...]
Don’t let the newsroom CMS stifle creativity
Friday, 9 February 2007, 18:18
Andy Dickinson looks at the Croydon Advertiser’s use Soundslides slideshows, which we reported in Press Gazette this week.
One interesting thing about the Advertiser’s project is that the slideshows are actually hosted off-site on the blog of Advertiser Picture Editor and Chief Photographer, David Berman.
Andy thinks this was a good idea for getting around the limitations imposed by the creaking content management systems many news web sites use.
“I’ve never understood why, given the restrictions of the centralised templating systems the locals are labouring under, more and more outfits don’t go to free or low cost services outside,” writes Dickinson.
Berman himself pipes up in the comments: “It wasn’t hard to decide to go our own way to get the IT soloution. It just would have taken more time than I could allow.”
I know what they mean. This week, I’ve been getting reacquainted to toiling within the limitations of a “content management system”, which will henceforth be known as a “restrictive centralised templating system”, or RCTS. Arrgh.
We’re looking to make some major upgrades to our RCTS, and on thing I am trying to insist upon is a simple Unix box to host blogs and other rapid-development experimental projects. Why wait for external web developers to do things you can do much faster in-house?
A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism.
