Journalism

I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’ve been interning at The Capital Times this summer. Along with learning about online journalism, posting stories to the web, writing features for print, and generally helping out, I also spent a long time working on a multimedia project. The project is an interactive timeline about the day [...]

I finally found a way to upload my first multimedia project online!  To view the project, click on the picture at right and a new window will pop up with the audio slideshow.  If you’re interested, check out these previous posts about my experience doing multimedia reporting, and my experience putting the project together. Thanks [...]

In last week’s edition of Journalism Friday I wrote about my process of reporting and doing audio editing for my first multimedia story — a project about Art and Maral Shegonee’s Kids in the Rotunda performance at the Overture Center.  This week in class we worked on photo editing using Adobe Photoshop, so I’m just [...]

I finally did some reporting this semester, which I’m excited to tell you about for Journalism Friday, my weekly post on journalism and j-school. My first assignment for Integrated Multimedia Storytelling is an audio and photo project.  We need to edit 30-60 seconds of audio, then tie it to 10-15 pictures for a slideshow.  Although [...]

My brain finally shifted into school mode this week, which was a welcome change to the lethargy and apathy I’d previously felt.  However, I was lazy for so long that I’ve spent the whole week catching up without much time for anything else.  Hence, we’ll have an abbreviated edition of Journalism Friday. There were a [...]

Welcome to my second edition of J-School Journal.  I hate that name, so instead of formalizing my feature with a name I’m just going to commit to writing a post about journalism and journalism school on Friday, without worrying that it has a snazzy button or name (unless I come up with something cool later [...]

One of my 2009 goals was to blog more about journalism, and since the BIP Week 2 project was to brainstorm a new feature, I thought a journalism-related post would be perfect.  Hence, J-School Journal, a weekly post about life as a journalism grad student. It still needs a better name, but anyway… This week [...]

It’s been what, like six days since I last posted?  I didn’t meant  abandon Sophisticated Dorkiness for that long, but once I finished my book blogging paper (which you can download and read by clicking on the link), I just lost all motivation to do anything that involved thinking.  So, no books read and no [...]

Right now I’m working on a feature story about independent bookstores and how they are preparing for the holiday shopping season. One owner I talked to is going into her first holiday season owning her store and said she’s excited, but also nervous because she’s not sure what to expect.  Another told me he’d been [...]