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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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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:41 PM

Fitting multimedia into the workday

My multimedia goal now usually is to get home in time for dinner. I’m only partially kidding.  My first year created some long, hard hours of learning.  I knew I was straining patience when I would begin receiving text messages
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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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Monday, February 25, 2008 2:52 AM

Cool stuff

I’ve arisen from the sick bed, gone back to work and excited about the the multimedia finds this week in my RSS reader.  Three notable links: First, repeat after me: "Data can be cool." Say it together now … User Interface Engineering
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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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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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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:48 PM

The way it ought to work

I'm on vacation this week, kicking back at a lake in the beautiful hills of Arkansas, with my wife and the five children in our extended family. But I didn't want the blog to go neglected too long ... On my last assignment before vacation,
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Friday, June 01, 2007 5:15 PM

A hard day's night

I wrote a 27-inch story and cut five related audio slide shows this week. Then I gladly took some vacation days I’d scheduled to go out of town with my family. I needed it. I’ve spent some amount of time asking myself if it was worth it, as others
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:09 PM

Our first multimedia project

I learn by example and improve through feedback. I’m getting much of the former but too little of the latter, since I ventured into an emphasis on multimedia journalism. When writing stories for 1A, I could get feedback by going out for breakfast.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:03 PM

Slideshows: They're not just for photographers

Fellow multimedia reporter Stan Finger was already grinning, when I walked into work this morning. He’d just found a slide show waiting in his in-box. A teenager had fallen into a river outside Wichita, and emergency crews staged a daring
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