Online Journalism

2006-09-14T23:58:00.000-07:00

teaching Online Journalism http://tojou.blogspot.com/

2006-09-14T23:46:00.000-07:00

Media Types
Planning a story may be easier if you stop thinking about software and begin thinking about media.
Online Media Types provides definitions.
Using Online Media Types gives you some "tools for thinking" as you approach a multimedia story.
Start here: How many types or formats do we have? Which one is best for each part of the story you have to tell?
Text
Photos
Graphics
Audio
Video
User interaction
Why use one instead of another? What treatment most increases the chances that the audience will understand and pay attention?

2006-09-14T06:56:00.000-07:00

online writing
Web users do read, but they do not read giant scrolling blocks of text.
To capture and keep the attention of a Web reader, the content and the format of text must be optimized for the online environment.
Tips for Writing for the Web: A compact list of guidelines for writing and formatting text and links.
Thinking Outside the Linear Box: Rusty Foster wrote an excellent article about information architecture for the Online Journalism Review in January 2003. When OJR executed a redesign a couple of years ago, the archives were apparently trashed. The article still stands as good stuff in my book, and I have Furled it.
The Elements of Digital Storytelling: Examples and a framework for analyzing online stories according to five "elements": media, action, relationship, context and communication.
Online Storytelling Forms: Examples and definitions from Jon Dube of CyberJournalist.net.

2006-09-06T00:44:00.000-07:00

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Welcome to my WEB BLOG!
It was created on my New Information Technologies classes
with the help of our lecturer Frederick Emrich.
Here I will try briefly answer 5W&H questions about Online Journalism:-)