Category Archives: multimedia

Online Journalism Blog: Bella Hurrell on data journalism and the BBC News Specials Team

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"Data is only useful if it is personal – I want to find out about schools in my area, restaurants near me and so on – or when it reveals something remarkable. The duck pond debacle from MPs expenses data or the Iraq civilian death records kept by the US revealed by Wikileaks’ release of the Iraq war documents are both examples of individual stories from big tranches of data that really resonated."

Journalism.co.uk: Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign

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Ed Roussel: "We are interested in recruiting, not an army, but a small number of people in interactive graphics and looking at what we can do to do a better job with video. ... The three biggest challenges for us editorially in the next year will be multimedia, multi-device tablets and smart phones and social media."

Observer: Politico isn’t a newspaper. But it might be the future of print

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Peter Preston: "[Politico] is "niche journalism". It employs around 175 people now. It is in profit already. More than that, it seems on the point of launching specialist areas of coverage – niches within the niche – and stowing them away behind a paywall. ... Find the right niche – say one that everyone who makes a living out of US government has to be aware of – and you have an audience worth chasing. Most of Politico's cash comes from the Capitol Hill paper it puts out one to five times a week. Print ads have a value the web can't reach yet. But the operation – a brand-new source of multimedia journalism, not a conventional newspaper – has few of print's hang-ups."

WWD: Anna Wintour Weaves Her Web

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"The new vogue.com — created in conjunction with Code and Theory, the digital development company behind the streamlined Web sites of The Daily Beast, Interview magazine and NBC New York — has such elements as an oversize features carousel (which integrates advertisements) with images that are three times larger than before, a locking navigation bar (essentially a traveling table of contents), plus Vogue-inspired typography and lots of white space, or “breathing room,” as Caroline Palmer, editor of vogue.com, put it."

Mashable: Dissecting the New Vogue.com: How One Magazine Did the Web Right

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"the new Vogue.com is essentially a vehicle for fashion multimedia. In the same way that its print counterpart is a showcase for huge, glossy photo spreads, the website is an exhibit for large, high-quality images and video. Full-screen slideshows are a perfect fit for elaborate fashion collection displays, for example."

Online Journalism Blog: Online journalism and the promises of new technology PART 1: The revolution that never happened

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Steen Steensen: "Why ... is online journalism still mostly all about producing written text to a mass audience? Why is use of multimedia, hypertext and interactivity still so rare?... Is it only because online newsrooms don’t have the resources they need to be innovative? Or are there other reasons?"

paidContent: Memo To News Sites: There Is No Future In ‘Digital Razzle Dazzle’

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John Yemma: "While SEO won’t cause readers to flock to stories about urban poverty or the Euro, people who care about those subjects are crucial to us, and—to be blunt—to a certain type of advertiser. They are the influencers, the tipping-point people. Influencers live in narrow channels and respond to articles that make it clear why things matter and how problems are being solved."

Nieman Journalism Lab: Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry

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Genius way to illustrate the conundrum facing every news executive thinking of raising a subscription barrier: "Paywall!, our revenue game ... allows you to explore the situation at the [New York] Times or at any other news site. ..."