Posted by Jessica Stuart, May 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
The LA Times recently launched a new multimedia feature: I C U: Los Angeles Connections, exploring the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Updated weekly with new stories, video-journalist Katy Newton looks into stories behind the postings.
If you’re in the LA area and looking for singles, don’t miss the map- you can see where the concentrations of singles are, by both gender and age.
This is a pretty great use of multimedia to explore community connections, worth checking out.
This month features a slideshow from the four photographers- Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of The Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek- who were killed over Laos in 1971 when their helicopter was shot down by North Vietnamese gunfire.
The remains of the four were recently interred in the new Newseum in Washington, D.C. If you don’t have time to read anything else on the site this month, definitely check out the exceptional work of these four men.
Posted by Jessica Stuart, April 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly qualified applicants for the position of Senior Multimedia Producer.
Description: Human Rights Watch seeks a Senior Multimedia Producer to develop, create and produce multimedia content. S/he will direct a staff of two, as well as a team of consulting editors, in creating visually compelling and journalistically excellent features that complement and enhance Human Rights Watch’s research and advocacy.
The Senior Multimedia Producer will report to Human Rights Watch’s Communications Director and work in close cooperation with the Creative Director, who oversees Human Rights Watch’s relationships with photographers. The Senior Multimedia Producer will supervise a small team consisting of a Video Editor and Radio Producer, as well as audiovisual consultants as needs arise. Virtually all multimedia products are posted on www.hrw.org, the Senior Multimedia Producer will also work closely with the HRW web team. S/he will collaborate with Human Rights Watch’s researchers and advocates to create dynamic and accessible features that help HRW’s work achieve the greatest impact.
Qualifications: The Senior Multimedia Producer should have at least seven years of experience in some form of broadcast journalism, and be knowledgeable in viral and multi-platform distribution of multimedia products. S/he must be able to effectively market HRW’s multimedia features around the world to traditional broadcast and new media outlets. The ability to work effectively with multiple languages is essential.
Human Rights Watch’s multimedia features may include sound, text, audio, still photography, video, graphics, and animation. Candidates should have knowledge of leading graphic, audio, and video tools including Final Cut Pro, Adobe Suite, Macromedia programs, ProTools, and 2 & 3D imaging software. Experience with information architecture and graphical user interface (GUI) design is highly desired.
The Senior Multimedia Producer must be very flexible, a team player, and able to adapt to a fluid environment and tight deadlines, working well under pressure.
Salary and Benefits: HRW seeks exceptional applicants and offers competitive compensation and generous employer-paid benefits. HRW will pay reasonable relocation expenses and will assist employees in obtaining necessary work authorization, if required; citizens of all nationalities are encouraged to apply.
PLEASE APPLY BY MAY 19, 2008 by emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, names or letters of reference, and a sample/portfolio of your previous multimedia products no later than May 19, 2008 to hrwpress@hrw.org. Please use “Senior Multimedia Producer” as the subject of your email. Only complete applications will be reviewed. It is preferred that all materials be submitted via email. If emailing is not possible, send materials (please do not split a submission between email and regular post) to:
Human Rights Watch
Attn: Search Committee – Senior Multimedia Producer (Communications)
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
Fax: (212) 736-1300 Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible workforce, actively seeks a diverse applicant pool.
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Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential governments and international institutions.
Posted by Jessica Stuart, April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
The Assistant Multimedia Director will coordinate online visual coverage with editiors, writers and photographers. Assist the Director of Photography/Multimedia in managing the multimedia newsgathering operation for RockyMountainNews.com, including supervising and assisting photographers in producing audio and video for the Web; will shoot video for the Web, also will train and assist reporters in basic audio and video; will ensure the website is updated frequently with the latest breaking news video; will assist the Director in video and audio coverage plans, will make assignments, edit video and audio; assist in development of website presentation of video and audio, will assist in the performance of all administrative and management duties.
Requirements: Four-year college degree or equivalent in work experience; minimum 5 years as photographer (or videographer) on a daily newspaper. Must have excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. Expert in multimedia applications such as Photoshop CS, Adobe Flash, Final Cut Pro and/or Adobe Premiere Pro. Proven news judgment, high ethical standards, knowledge of broadcast production, audio and video editing and print photo editing. Must be able to work effectively under deadline pressure. Minimum two years experience with online video and audio production. Must be able to balance multiple priorities, work well in a team environment under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Schedule will vary — day shifts, night shift and weekend shifts. Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Please send a cover letter, resume with references and a multimedia portfolio to:
Janet Reeves, Director of Photography/Multimedia
Rocky Mountain News
101 West Colfax Ave
Suite 500
Denver, CO 80202
If necessary, you may e-mail Janet with questions at reevesj@rockymountainnews.com, but no phone calls, please. If sending a FedX package, use the general photo department number: 303-954-5382. Thank you for your consideration.
Posted by Jessica Stuart, April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
The Council on Foreign Relations and MediaStorm have collaborated to produce a new online multimedia feature, Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Using a comprehensive array of audio, video, imagery, and text, the guide offers an in-depth look at the history of the conflict and its geopolitical repercussions.
Crisis Guide: The Israeli-Palestinian Authority was produced in consultation with experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, Arab and Israeli sources, as well as an array of independent scholars, former officials, diplomats, and experts on the region’s political and economic history.
Crisis Guides, CFR.org’s interactive, award-winning franchise, seek to bring context and historical perspective to the world’s most complex issues. Produced with MediaStorm.org, the series also includes Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula, which looks at the standoff between the two Koreas, and Crisis Guide: Darfur, which looks at the tragedy in Sudan’s Darfur region. The next guide will tackle the issue of climate change.
Posted by Jessica Stuart, April 9th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The 12th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries and all 50 states.
From now through May 1st, fans around the world can register and cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards at http://pv.webbyawards.com.
Of course, we’d love for you to vote for these projects:
ABOUT THE WEBBY AWARDS
Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards are known worldwide for its famous five-word speech limit. Past headline-grabbing speechmakers include Al Gore (”Please don’t recount this vote”), Beastie Boys (”Can anyone fix my computer?”), and Prince (”Everything you think is true.”)
The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.
Winners will be announced on May 6, 2008. See all nominees and honorees.
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Congratulations to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor for winning the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography. Her story, Remember Me, is an intimate look at how one family deals with a parents’ terminal illness. The connection Preston made with Carolynne St. Pierre and her family in the almost two years she documented their lives is amazing.
Adrees Latif of Reuters was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography, for his photograph of a Japanese videographer killed during a street demonstration in Myanmar.
Congratulations also to the other finalists in these categories: David Guttenfelder (AP) and Mona Reeder (Dallas Morning News) for Feature Photography, and Mahmud Hams (Agence France-Presse) and the Los Angeles Times Staff for Breaking News Photography.
Also worth mentioning, the Washington Post won six awards, including the Public Service Prize, for a story on wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, which photographer Michael du Cille worked on with two reporters.
Scott Jensen of KTUU in Anchorage, was recently named NPPA’s TV News Photojournalist of the Year. Three stories from his award-winning portfolio, along with his favorite story, are on the site, each with a video interview with Jensen.
This month’s issue also features “Philip Jones Griffiths in Memorium,” a tribute to the late photographer, whose work in Vietnam and throughout his career at Magnum made such a great impact on photojournalists and on everyone who saw his work.
The Knight Digital Media Center at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, is currently accepting Fellowship applications for:
Application deadline for all workshops is APRIL 11, 2008
The Knight Digital Media Center Multimedia Training Program is accepting applications for 20 fellowships per workshop for journalists to attend these seminars that combine practical instruction in multimedia reporting with in-depth exploration of issues in online publishing.
We are accepting concurrent applications for workshops being offered in May, June and July 2008. Applicants may apply to one, two or all three workshops. Because we receive far more applications than we can accommodate, applicants are encouraged to apply for multiple workshops to increase their chances of being accepted into one of them.
Participants will receive six days of intense hands-on instruction on
how to do multimedia stories for the Web, including:
• Using digital video cameras, photo cameras and audio recorders;
• Doing storyboards, stand-ups, voiceovers and other broadcast techniques;
• Digital video, audio and photo editing; creating photo slide shows in Flash;
• Web page creation and multimedia Web site design.
Fellows create a multimedia project as part of the seminar. In addition, there are evening and noontime presentations by online publishing experts on the most pressing issues in digital media.
WHO SHOULD APPLY: Professional print and broadcast journalists seeking multimedia skills. Fellowships include lodging, meals and instruction. Cost of travel to the workshop must be paid by the applicant’s news organization.
If you have questions about the workshop, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions page on the application site, which addresses the most commonly asked questions about the application and selection process. To view the FAQ page, click here: http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/training/faq/.
If your question is not addressed by the FAQ page, contact Lanita Pace-Hinton, director of multimedia training, at pacel@berkeley.edu or (510) 643-7429.
COMPLETED APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY APRIL 11, 2008.
The NPPA’s Digital Convergence ‘08 Seminar is also now open for registration. They are holding a Multimedia Immersion session May 27-30, followed by the Convergence ‘08 Seminars May 30-31, in Louisville, KY. The Multimedia Immersion section is only open to the first 50 people who apply, so don’t wait! Instructors include:
Scott Anger – Video Editor, The Los Angeles Times
Meredith Birkett – Multimedia Producer, MSNBC
Regina McCombs - Multimedia Producer, Star Tribune
Will Sullivan - Interactive Director, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Scott Utterback – Video Journalist, The Louisville Courier Journal
Joe Weiss - Soundslides
Will Yurman - Staff Photojournalist, The Democrat and Chronicle
…and about 20 more trainers, all experts and leaders in the field of multimedia
The Conversion Seminar will also feature a great lineup of speakers, and is open to all (with registration). Check out their lineup here.
