Category Archives: slideshows

BBC College of Journalism Blog: In praise of the audio slideshow

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Kevin Marsh: "The audio slideshow suffers from a default perception that it's neither one thing nor the other; something less than video while tainting the purity of audio. ... Put the two together - great audio documentary and great still images - and you have something that is potentially MORE than great storytelling."

paidContent: NYT’s Nisenholtz’s Speech: The Importance Of Engagement

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Martin Nisenholtz: "Identity is, in my view, a fundamental building block for engagement. I think Facebook has now proven it to be true. ... Where I think The Times can differentiate here is in the quality of the answers, and more generally, the conversation. The secret to that is real identity. And for the first time, thanks to Facebook, we have such a system at scale. But many other services built on top of identity can be similarly engaging, from vastly improved, more relevant reviews and comments to a structured hierarchy of contributors for Times Topics. The publishing community must begin to think about building emotional connections like these in our day-to-day work. This is not a sideline to our business model: it is in the center."

Multimedia from the Telegraph newsroom

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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 [...]

PA trials new slideshow tool at Press Awards

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Last night, Press Gazette reported the winners of the British Press Awards live on a dedicated blog (on Twitter). But the most exciting aspects of the project was our first public use of ShowBuilder, a new multimedia slideshow tool being developed by the Press Association and Vexed Digital. Using the tool, we created audio sideshows to embed [...]

Don’t let the newsroom CMS stifle creativity

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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?