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Multimedia apps for journalists

In this week's edition of II's summer guest blogger series, Adam Westbrook expands upon a personal post about free applications for multimedia journalists. Included are eight useful multimedia applications to utilize in your next project.

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Honduras: dispatches from the field

Hello from Honduras! I wanted to update everyone on my work here in southwestern Honduras and point you to my project page and blog on The Pulitzer Center's Website. They just finished building it late last week, so now I can continually post my updates on there ...

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Best of Innovative Interactivity, June 2009

While posts have gone down significantly this month due to my absence while in Honduras, I've been happy to see site visits and pageviews remain about the same. Thanks for bearing with me, and I promise to get back to blogging more in the fall!

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Multimedia coverage of sporting events

In this week's edition of II's summer guest blogger series Brian Vernellis, former sports producer at The Times in Shreveport, La., discusses the importance of integrating multimedia elements into traditional sports coverage, and highlights specific examples of successful sports packages.

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Organizing multimedia navigations by media type versus story type

I came across a multimedia presentation today by Chattanooga Times Free Press about Georgia's 2008 drought. It reminded me of Las Vegas Sun's recent multimedia package on the drought in Nevada, so I decided to make a great case in point with the two. While "Drought in Georgia" has content organized by media, "For Want of Water" has content organized by story. I cannot stress how crucial it is for multimedia producers to strive to do the latter, and leave behind this notion that we have to notify the viewers what media type was selected to tell a certain part of the story.