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Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Become A Better Videographer – Shoot Like A Video Editor

Become A Better Videographer – Shoot Like A Video Editor

For those of you who shoot video, want to get better at shooting video, edit your own video, or edit video shot by others, this article is all about you wonderful guys and gals. As someone who is editing a lot, I thought this short video was fantastic. The great hints and tips provided here are totally free, you don't have to buy anything to get something out of this article, and if you aren't doing this stuff already, this is guaranteed to make you both a stronger video shooter, and a producer of stronger edits.

http://fstoppers.com/become-a-better-videographer-shoot-like-a-video-editor

What Filmmakers Can Learn from Journalists (and Vice Versa)

What Filmmakers Can Learn from Journalists (and Vice Versa)

At the always-electrifying Online News Association conference, filmmakers could learn plenty from journalists—including the fact that journalists think they need filmmakers.

http://cmsimpact.org/blog/media-impact/what-filmmakers-can-learn-journalists-and-vice-versa

5 Lessons for Documentary Filmmakers From Pioneering New Journalism Article

5 Lessons for Documentary Filmmakers From Pioneering New Journalism Article

Popular documentaries like The Imposter have used literary and formal devices influenced by the style of New Journalism, established in the 1960s.

Know your past so you can tell your future can be applied to all forms of culture, and there was a recent, scintillating reminder of this truism for documentary filmmakers.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/docsoup/2013/10/5-lessons-for-documentary-filmmakers-from-pioneering-new-journalism-article/

Hangout heads-up: How far can we push #openjournalism?

Hangout heads-up: How far can we push #openjournalism?

We at Storyful have been running our Open Newsroom for just short of five months at this point, and it's been a hugely valuable experience. We want to continue to make the Open Newsroom a locus for the identification and investigation of great, unheard news stories.

http://blog.storyful.com/2013/10/21/hangout-heads-up-how-far-can-we-push-openjournalism/

This year’s winners at the Online Journalism Awards

This year's winners at the Online Journalism Awards
http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/10/this-years-winners-at-the-online-journalism-awards/

Outstanding apps for mobile journalists

Outstanding apps for mobile journalists
http://ijnet.org/blog/outstanding-apps-mobile-journalists

Monday, 21 October 2013

Acts of journalism: Why we need to be skeptical of a shield law for professional journalists

Interesting read from the United States. More ammunition in the 'who is a journalist?' debate...

Acts of journalism: Why we need to be skeptical of a shield law for professional journalists
http://paidcontent.org/2013/10/21/acts-of-journalism-why-we-need-to-be-skeptical-of-a-shield-law-for-professional-journalists/