“It’s become a verb in our newsroom,” a New York Times graphics producer tells me. “People are now saying, ‘can we snowfall this story?’” Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek has become a watershed in multimedia journalism. The story by John Branch recently won a Pulitzer prize in feature writing, and as noted by [...]
At what point will the technology become good enough where the listener (or viewer) simply no longer discerns how the content was captured, but only appreciates what was captured?
For the past week, I have been attending the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. I sat through a handful of sessions related to online advertising, none of which came from the perspective of the journalism industry. It seems making money online is an issue for more than just news companies. I find this area [...]
Back in the late 90s, usability expert Jakob Nielsen came out with a series of articles about how people consume media on the Web. These articles were profound in that Nielsen realized fairly early that people consume content differently on the Web. In order to communicate effectively over the Internet we need to format the [...]
David Carr of the New York Times wrote an article about how journalism doesn’t need the Web, and – in so many words – he said he thought that free news found on the Web is bad news for print publications. As prestigious and prolific as David Carr is, I can’t help but feel like [...]