For this post I am going to inform of the progress being made on Andy, Zach and my progress in creating the NWAACC soundslides. I will focus just on my aspect of the progress and look for my next post to see what the rest of our group has done.
On Wednesday, May 20 I took a trip to Spokane, WA to cover the NWAACC Track championship, taking photos, collecting information and getting audio. I took around 350 pictures and performed about 10 interviews for our soundslides project.
Since the time I got back, I have spent my class time importing the audio and pictures to the computer and have recently been working on refining the pictures that I took into ones that I will use for the slideshow. This has been a long process because I have to refine 350 pictures into about 15 of the best that will go in the slideshow.
As of now I have about 10 pictures chosen for the slideshow and next week I will begin work on editing my audio and putting captions with the pictures.
Check out my next post as I give the progress of the rest of the group, Zach and Andy.
May 29, 2009
May 15, 2009
Online Journalism site winners
After examining each of the sites that either won the Large site breaking news award of finalist for it I have come up with the site I thought was the best.
I liked the Los Angeles Times setup for the wildfires. I liked how easy it was for the user to go to whatever they wanted to get the coverage.
This site included photos, an interactive google slideshow that the user could find out what areas the fires were affecting and where shelters were located and a link to precautions people can take that lists centers and other valuable information in each county.
I actually thought the San Diego Tribune site had more information and resouces, but I thought it wasn't displayed as good as the LA Times did it. The San Diego Tribune had a ton of video's and included an audio slideshow along with google maps. The problem was that it took you straight to the print context.
Users online are different than readers in print. Online users want exactly what they are looking for right away. Displaying your information that allows the user to choose what to look at worked better for me than the San Diego Tribune version that took you straight to the print.
I liked the Los Angeles Times setup for the wildfires. I liked how easy it was for the user to go to whatever they wanted to get the coverage.
This site included photos, an interactive google slideshow that the user could find out what areas the fires were affecting and where shelters were located and a link to precautions people can take that lists centers and other valuable information in each county.
I actually thought the San Diego Tribune site had more information and resouces, but I thought it wasn't displayed as good as the LA Times did it. The San Diego Tribune had a ton of video's and included an audio slideshow along with google maps. The problem was that it took you straight to the print context.
Users online are different than readers in print. Online users want exactly what they are looking for right away. Displaying your information that allows the user to choose what to look at worked better for me than the San Diego Tribune version that took you straight to the print.
May 8, 2009
NowPublic
So what I got from NowPublic is that it is a very large citizen journalist site. According to the site, it has thousands of reporters in over 140 countries.
NowPublic was created by a company based in Vancouver, Canada and is the largest news organization of its kind. The site is funded by Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark, GrowthWorks and members of the New York Angels.
This site utilizes the bloggers, writers and photographers around the world to create its contentand does a good job of it. Multiple sources show that this site is effective such as Time Magazine naming it one of the top 50 coolest websites of 2007 and During Hurricane Katrina, the site had more reporters there than most journalistic organizations have on their entire staff.
NowPublic was created by a company based in Vancouver, Canada and is the largest news organization of its kind. The site is funded by Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark, GrowthWorks and members of the New York Angels.
This site utilizes the bloggers, writers and photographers around the world to create its contentand does a good job of it. Multiple sources show that this site is effective such as Time Magazine naming it one of the top 50 coolest websites of 2007 and During Hurricane Katrina, the site had more reporters there than most journalistic organizations have on their entire staff.
May 1, 2009
In: Site
A group of 20 undergraduate students from the University of Washington created a news aggregator site called In:Site.
This site gives readers news through a Facebook application that will normally include arts and culture.
Doing this through Facebook helps this group reach their target audience of 16-25 year olds that as shown through a study only 30 percent of read the news.
The site's main goal is to get news out to the younger generation and Facebook is their plan to do so. The Site is nice because it draws the user to what they are interested in with arts and culture and it allows them to create their own posts.
The problem I have with this site is that this doesn't solve the acual hard news that 16-25 year olds aren't reading. Sure they are at least reading some news but they still aren't reading the hard news that really has made news what it is.
This site gives readers news through a Facebook application that will normally include arts and culture.
Doing this through Facebook helps this group reach their target audience of 16-25 year olds that as shown through a study only 30 percent of read the news.
The site's main goal is to get news out to the younger generation and Facebook is their plan to do so. The Site is nice because it draws the user to what they are interested in with arts and culture and it allows them to create their own posts.
The problem I have with this site is that this doesn't solve the acual hard news that 16-25 year olds aren't reading. Sure they are at least reading some news but they still aren't reading the hard news that really has made news what it is.
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