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NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion program wrapped up earlier this month with a panel discussion. One of the panelists was Andrew deVigal, multimedia editor for the New York Times:
“Success is not going to be measured by the number of hits or by the number of Web pages served. It’s going to be determined by the amount of […]

Artists in ancient Egypt represented motion by having subjects arms mimic the neck and and tail of some exotic bird. Somehow I guess they figured that the one arm pointing and the other trailing represented forward motion without ambiguity.
Today videographers strive to create narrow depth of field in order to focus our viewer’s […]

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee has issued a guide for Republican candidates stressing the importance of blogs and online video for victory in the 2008 election.

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ERWITT: ‘The exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev was really quite silly. Nixon was saying “We are rich and you are poor, we eat meat and you eat cabbage”. Khrushchev replied “Go screw my grandmother”‘.

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NEW YORK Eighteen Baltimore Sun photojournalists launched a byline strike today protesting Tribune Co.’s move to force reporters to become photographers and videographers as a way to cut costs, according to a press release sent to E&P today by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. It will continue for three days.

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Excellent summary of the World Editors Forum from the always insightful Rebecca McKinnon. The good news from Capetown:
“newspaper companies aren’t on the verge of death….whatever the format, people recognized that ultimately, newspapers’ survival will depend on journalism. Credible, accurate, and relevant journalism.”

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A $10 shovel or a $20,000 work of art?
Well, it’s both. Back in 1916 Marcel Duchamp opened his first exhibition of readymades with a sign: “Who cares who made them, I chose them!”. The notion that discovering a product could be more profitable than making one, was a novel idea, and caused […]

More importantly:
In a February poll from We Media and Zogby Interactive, 72% of adults said they were dissatisfied with the quality of American journalism today. Another 55% said bloggers are important to the future of American journalism, and 74% said citizen journalism will play a vital role, according to the poll.

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A cunning plan. What could be more alluring on a videojournalism blog than an interview with Michael Rosenblum? I knew little about Michael - his own blog is long on enthusiasm, short on details - but felt that many others might be interested to learn more about the new Robespierre threatening to lead big […]

I bristle at the convention realtors have adopted of referring to the most profitable disposition of a piece of land as its “highest and best use”.
Likewise I find “the fifth rule of videojournalism” somewhat sinister. Essentially the rule states that All Good Journalism is Popular Journalism.

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For some time now hyperlocal news has been touted as a panacea for the declining revenues and readership decimating regional newspapers and TV stations. By focusing on local issues, so the theory goes, journalists can avoid competing with online sources by providing niche audiences with pertinent news they cannot find elsewhere.
“There’s no official definition, but […]

Seadragon - an incredible visual viewing/modelling/networking app - from Microsoft. Very classy of BMW to leave their ad until after the presentation.

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