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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:52 AM

What I learned about crime reporting via Twitter

The Twitter trial was exhausting. But the response was worth it.  That’s what I’ve found is usually true in this business. The most difficult reporting brings the best rewards. I had to take a week’s vacation after the capital murder
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Friday, April 18, 2008 1:01 PM

A new multimedia project, in duet

Collaboration is to be the next step in my multimedia journey. It’s a natural progression, and a welcome one.  The past year of learning has at times been a lonely process.  But it’s been necessary.  It’s hard to work with
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:09 AM

A slide show before dinner, a video in an hour

A year ago, I sat in front of computer for hours, trying to make the sound synch with the movement of the lips in I-Movie, or make Final Cut Pro reach some sort of finality.  Usually, my frustration would hit its peak long before my wife sent
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Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:31 AM

Hot links

After a busy week of deadlines, I'm using the weekend to catch up on some reading: Comedy is easy.  Audio is hard.  Cyndy Green keeps sound in synch by giving good advice on which microphones are best.Mindy McAdams
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Friday, March 07, 2008 1:23 PM

Getting started: Moving to that place on-line, where we all need to be.

The latest edition of The Quill offers tips and tricks to surviving in an on-line world.OK, I did write one of the articles.But be sure and read the excellent tips on:Collecting audio by Vincent Duffy of Michigan Public Radio.Getting into video by Angela
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:39 AM

Class Act

If you want to revive your enthusiasm for the future of journalism, spend an hour in a college J-class. Not only have I met some really brilliant students online through social networking and SPJ, the occasional invite to speak to a class
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:10 PM

Who needs video?

Not the Indianapolis Star. When NFL rules stifled attempts to shoot video, photographers Matt Detrich, Matt Kryger, Sam Riche and Robert Scheer decided to make time-lapse audio slide shows using fast paced stills as animation.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:28 AM

Go all guerrilla on ‘em

My philosophy is get out there and get the job done.  Get the news and get in on-line.  And don't be afraid to shoot video. Don't let some accountant turned editor tell you it will break the newsroom budget.  It doesn't have
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:30 AM

No. 4: Multimedia

The KBI was envious. The special agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation were assigned to courthouse security in tiny Eureka, KS, for the capital murder trial of Scott Cheever.  Cheever was accused of killing the local sheriff. They
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:28 PM

The sound and the story

One exciting part of the growing technology in multimedia is finding new ways to tell stories. My friend Jaime Oppenheimer put together this video last week from the Kansas State Fair, composed entirely of natural sound. Besides
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Monday, August 27, 2007 6:05 PM

It's all about content

One of the ways I’ve continued to learn about multimedia is through the comments people leave on this blog about their own experiences. Robert Cronkleton of the Kansas City Star is the latest to share his early ventures into multimedia reporting.
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Monday, August 20, 2007 6:01 PM

Failure is just a state of mind

I didn’t want to listen to the nearly four hours of audio and video I’d recorded for my most ambitious multimedia project yet. After all, I hadn’t even listened to myself. I had learned the rules dutifully, and I had passed them through
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Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:58 PM

Quit fretting and just push 'record' already

“What do we do now?” That was the question after I gave my first audio training to reporters at The Eagle today. We started with audio, because I continue to read and believe, it's the first and most important skill we can develop. People may
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:56 PM

Almost live from Wichita

Inspired by Ryan Sholin’s running commentary, I thought trying to cover something live looked fun. So I gave it a shot. Armed with my new smart phone, I figured I do what I could to cover a news conference this morning as live as possible.
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Friday, July 20, 2007 5:52 PM

If you get audio and no one hears it, does it make any sound?

The chemical plant explosion shook buildings. The call from our desk told me to go directly to the emergency command center, which was under the big cloud of black smoke the officials weren’t so sure we should be breathing. I was glad that
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