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TNTJ: What I want to do in journalism — Covering the environment as a journalist who cares

This post is part of this month’s “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists.” Each month a group of young journalists picks a topic to blog about, similar to “The Carnival of Journalism.” For October 2008, the TNTJ topic is What would your ideal journalism job be and why?
I wasn’t always interested in journalism. In high school I [...]

Bookmarks for October 5th from 15:11 to 15:22

These are my links for October 5th from 15:11 to 15:22:

Soundslides forum / Lower 3rds tutorial for dummies? - Working with lower thirds in Soundslides.
ss_tutorial.mov (video/quicktime Object) - Excellent video tutorial for working with Soundslides Plus. Specific tips include working with ordering and playing with the audio timeline to make it sync up the way [...]

Test on uploading Soundslides

Today I decided to work with Soundslides. The audio is not there yet, mostly because I haven’t gotten it yet. Basically I’m taking baby steps since I’m learning on my own.
While I’m not working with a class on Soundslides, I do have some resources, most notably a series of posts by journalism Professor Mindy McAdams. [...]

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 [...]

Playing with podcasting

I’ve enrolled myself in a radio workshop class. Basically we’re playing with GarageBand, creating programming for the Web-based radio station.
Currently we’re producing sweepers to run in between the programming loop. I’m using this as a learning tool for producing podcasts and audio stories. As the pieces are finished I’ll try to get them uploaded.
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