Multimedia Journalism
A Practical Guide
Andy Bull
- 510 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Multimedia Journalism
A Practical Guide
Andy Bull
About This Book
Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide, Second edition builds on the first edition's expert guidance on working across multiple media platforms, and continues to explore getting started, building proficiency and developing professional standards in multimedia journalism.
The second edition features new chapters including:
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- getting started with social media
- live reporting
- building proficiency with Wordpress
- building apps for smartphones and tablets
- building a personal brand and developing a specialism
- long-form video journalism, audio and video news bulletins and magazine programmes.
The new edition also includes an extensive range of new and updated materials essential for all aspects multimedia journalism today. New areas explored include editing video and slideshows for mobile and tablet devices, the advanced use of mobile devices for reporting, location-specific content creation and delivery, the use of video and audio slideshows, and live blogging. Other updates include more material on photojournalism as a storytelling technique, using and transferring digital images and sound, the use of Google Analytics, and practical guides to storytelling through infographics, timelines, interactive graphics and maps.
The book fully engages with multimedia journalism in relation to range of social media and web publishing platforms, including Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, SoundCloud, AudioBoom and iTunes.
The book is also be supported by fully updated online masterclasses at www.multimedia-journalism.co.uk.
Frequently asked questions
Information
chapters
part A
Getting started
Introduction: What multimedia journalism is
Aims of this section
- ā Write a good basic news report
- ā Build a simple WordPress multimedia website and beat blog
- ā Use social media as an integral part of your news gathering and reporting
- ā Take good news pictures and create a stills picture story
- ā Film, edit and publish a video story
- ā Record, edit and publish audio reports and podcasts.
chapter one
Essentials of writing a news story
In the book version of this chapter we will cover:
- ā What news is
- ā What reporting is
- ā How to identify and serve a particular audience
- ā Where to find news
- ā How to write and structure a text-based news report
- ā Multimedia reporting ā the effective use of text, still pictures, video and audio
- ā Why you need a journalistic specialism
- ā How to write a specialist or beat blog
- ā How to tackle a range of basic reporting assignments.
In the online version of this chapter you will find:
- ā Interactive quizzes to test your understanding of the principles of news gathering and writing
- ā A wide range of videos illustrating the material covered here
- ā A wealth of links to further information
- ā Any essential updates to the tuition contained in the print and ebook editions
- ā Footnotes to the book version chapter.
1A1
What news is
- Itās new ā it has just happened, and we are learning about it for the first time.
- Itās factual ā in that 25-word sentence, there are numerous facts. questionsCan you work out what they are?List them before reading on.Here are the facts covered:
- ā A boy
- ā aged 16
- ā died
- ā in his brotherās arms
- ā yesterday
- ā after a confrontation
- ā with a youth
- ā threatening staff
- ā in a bakerās shop
- ā in south London.
- Itās about people ā that short first paragraph ā known as an intro ā drops us into a compelling human drama. We can picture the scene, and empathise with the characters in it.
- Itās relevant to readers; it affects them ā in the immediate area this story will have had a great effect on people, but this was also a big national story. It affected most readers not because they were directly caught up in it but because it was shocking, and they felt great sympathy for the victim and his family. It also affected them because it probably made them feel a bit less safe ā either for themselves or for their family.
- Itās dramatic and out of the ordinary ā the amount written about an event can depend on how dramatic and out of the ordinary it is. In some inner city areas, a murder warrants only a couple of pars (paragraphs) on a local news website, or in a local paper. In a quiet rural area, it would probably be the lead ā the main story on the websiteās home page, and the paperās front page. The difference in coverage reflects the extent to which such an event is relatively common or uncommon.This story was given great prominence because it involved a law-abiding young man who was completely blameless, and who was attacked for no reason.
- It involves conflict ā a fatal attack involves a very high level of conflict.