Multimedia Journalism
Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback; Paperback; eBook
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780415478236
Description: Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide offers clear advice on working across multiple media platforms including guides to creating and using video, audio, text and pictures.

This textbook contains all the essentials of good practice that are the bedrock to being a successful multimedia journalist and is supported by an immersive website at www.multimedia-journalism.co.uk which demonstrates how to apply the skills covered in the book, gives many examples of good and bad practice, and keeps the material up to date and in line with new hardware, software, methods of working and legislation as they change. As a working example of convergence in practice, the book is cross referenced and interlinked with the website, which offers the chance to join an online community of students, journalists and journalism tutors and to attend regularly scheduled, live online masterclasses from industry experts.

Split into three levels - getting started, building proficiency and professional standards, this book builds on the knowledge attained in each part, and ensures that skills are introduced one step at a time until professional competency is achieved. This three stage structure means it can be used from initial to advanced level to learn the key skill areas of video, audio, text, and pictures and how to combine them to create multimedia packages. Skills covered include:

• Writing news reports, features, email bulletins and blogs
• Building a website using a content management system
• Measuring the success of your website or blog
• Shooting, cropping, editing and captioning pictures
• Telling stories through picture galleries and slide shows
• Recording, editing and publishing audio reports and podcasts
• Shooting and editing video and creating effective packages
• Streaming live video reports
• Creating breaking news tickers and using Twitter
• Using and encouraging user generated content
• Interviewing and conducting advanced online research
• Subediting, proofreading and headlining, including search engine optimisation
• Geo-tagging, geo-coding and geo-broadcasting
• Scripting and presenting bulletins
Table of contents: title: Introduction. What Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide is all about; title: Part 1: Getting started; title: 1: Essentials of writing a news story; title: 2: Creating a publishing platform; title: 3: Still pictures; title: 4: Audio and podcasting; title: 5: Video; title: Part 2: Building proficiency; title: 6: Writing news stories and reporting live; title: 7: Publishing platforms for live reporting; title: 8: User-generated content and email bulletins; title: 9: Publishing platforms for user-generated content and email bulletins; title: 10: Still pictures and audio; title: 11: Video; title: Part 3: Professional Standards; title: 12: News stories, features and in-depth packages; title: 13: Sub-editing and search engine optimisation; title: 14: Publishing platforms for advanced multimedia story-telling; title: 15: Picture editing; title: 16: Audio and video including presenting; title: 17: The future, Web 3.0; title: 18: Getting a job as a multimedia journalist