Search

The article features the team at the "Airman" magazine including multimedia photographer Andrew Breese, former director of photography at "The Detroit News" Bob Houlihan, and editor in chief Preston Keres. Breese is mentioned as a former U.S. Navy videographer who feels free while working for the Air Force. Keres is cited to have covered the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake which led him to win awards. The team is working on an interactive, computer tablet-based version of the magazine.

The article offers information on Rick Loomis, photojournalist, who got an opportunity to make an extensive multimedia and print series on world population. The project titled was ''Beyond 7 Billion,'' was for the duration of two years and started in the year 2009. Also presented are the photographic images captured by him during his project. Loomis believes that the hardest part pf the project was the postproduction.

The article focuses on Jason Arthurs, former newspaper photojournalist of the periodical "Raleigh News & Observer," who released his second documentary film "The Last Barn Dance." It mentions the views of Arthurs regarding the use of his photography skills in filmmaking. It adds that the film was completed in collaboration with Arthurs' former colleague Ted Richardson.

The article features multimedia journalism professor Richard Koci Hernandez at the University of California, Berkeley. It says that Hernandez has been presented as the iPhonographer during the 2012 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference held in Austin, Texas. It mentions that Hernandez has advocated the use of iPhone as a multimedia journalism tool because of the availability of Instagram picture-sharing service.

The article focuses on the effort of the photography department of "The Denver Post" newspaper in creating the web site "The Media Center." According to executive Tim Rasmussen, the site is where they sell their pictures and where they have their photography blog. It talks about multimedia photography editors Meghan Lyden and Mateo Leyba and offers information on the project "Childhood Poverty in Colorado" that includes video stories, photography galleries, and interactive data map.

The article focuses on Christina (Eiler) Baird, the granddaughter of the famous photographer Chuck Scott. It says that Baird took a capstone class that included being on the creation team for "Soul of Athens" (OU's) project in 2010. It mentions that Baird grandfather's tales of his captivated, she generated the idea on compiling his grandfather's history into an application.

The article focuses on the management of multimedia storytelling to catch the interest of readers. It mentions that Kathy Kieliszewski, the deputy director of photography and video department of the periodical "Detroit Free Press," offers video storytelling to the members of the department. Furthermore, the staff photographers of the periodical including Eric Seals, Brian Kaufman, and Romain Blanquart focus on photographs and videos for storytelling projects.

The article provides information on how video and still shooter can team up to cover a story. The employees at the "Roanoke Times" have been cross-training still shooter to also shoot video for them to have knowledge in two different disciplines. Associated Press (AP) director of Photography Santiago Lyon said that his company has a group of 12 American photographers who are trained in shooting Internet video. AP still photographer Evan Vucci has spent the last two years of his five years with AP as still photographer and videographer, which allow him to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

The author offers 10 tips on how to win "Best Of Photojournalism" for the Web contest. His tip number 1 is that the said contest is all about photojournalism, and to win the contest, the entry must have photojournalism that is better than the photographic storytelling in the other projects. Another tip is to use transitions for the right reasons. He discusses that there are many editing techniques that can be taken from the television brethren and can be applied to audio slideshows. He also suggests to use music only when appropriate and if possible, use ambient sound to tell the story.

The article discusses the strategy of Tim Rasmussen, assistant managing editor of photography for "The Denver Post," in training his department members in multimedia systems in the U.S. Rasmussen initiates the effort to prepare his members against the possible downsizing in the industry. The photographers are provided with Editor Recorder with an omnidirectional microphone so they could understand the stories and convert them to video. He encourages the photographers to produce online presentations of the stories without impairments to the quality of the photographs.

The article provides information on the Best of Photojournalism contest, which makes use of multimedia. According to the author, the judges of the competition, Andrew DeVigal and Keith Jenkins, have stated that the winners were chosen because they have made advanced developments in web-based photography. In addition, it states that the contest has added the Web Video Photography, which consists of news, features, sports and documentary. Furthermore, it has been noted that there are growing demands for the use of videos in storytelling because it has an easy access to readers.