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Checking in with Barack Obama’s Lehigh Valley campaign

Today I ventured into the Obama campaign HQ in Bethlehem. It’s a fairly calm place from what I imagined, about 20 people crowded around phones and laptops (I didn’t see any Macs) and the number of signs seemed … tiny.
However I did learn that the Senator is coming, the staffers and volunteers just aren’t sure [...]

Gettysburg College hosts journalism workshop

So on April 5 some of my colleagues and I will be at Gettysburg College learning more about multimedia journalism and what other schools are doing. The day-long event will hopefully help The Commuter crew learn some more about what we can be doing and help us network with others in the field.
I’m interested in [...]

Strong animation makes graphics effective

Do graphics make the story? Or do you still need to have good writing supplemented by the graphics?
I recently came across an infographic on the extinction of languages. It’s a simple graphic; easy to navigate, easy to read and effectively presents a lot of information. Since I’m new to the creation of graphics like that [...]

Learning to write, shoot, edit and publish video

So I’m about to get started with my first foray into video. I’ll be on a team of six working on a public service announcement video about recycling. Suddenly I realize that I don’t know some key parts to shooting video:

Writing a script: I have no idea how to get started with this other than [...]