The Digital Reporter's Notebook

ISBN-13: 9780415898607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 136 str.

Mark Blaine; Michael Werner

Opis

The Digital Reporter s Notebook develops reporting skills using everyday digital technology to capture the elements of good stories. Mark Blaine shows students how applying the basic skills of multimedia storytelling to their reporting can reinforce the principles of quality journalism: audio can teach interviewers how to listen, video can teach reporters how to keep focused on their subjects. Each media technology has something to offer our core understanding of storytelling. And each can reinforce truth telling and accuracy in its own way. By approaching stories with a multimedia perspective from the beginning, this book shows students how to build a strong foundation in text, audio, and visual storytelling. The Digital Reporter s Notebook is a toolkit, a training plan, and an ethics guide for defining interactive journalism s best practices.

The Digital Reporter s Notebook is a multimedia learning tool itself. It s a print textbook with examples, photos, illustrations, and references. And it s also a rich companion website with examples of multimedia work, interactive exercises, video tutorials, and a "workout plan" for budding media storytellers. The workout plan includes daily skills exercises that students can use to hone their skills in text, audio and visual storytelling.

The Digital Reporter s Notebook is ideal for online journalism courses and introductory reporting courses using a convergence approach.

Recenzje

"Mark Blaine's got the goods. This concise and insightful book contains golden nuggets that will improve the storytelling game for any journalist—from students just learning how to get out into the field to the citizen blogger wanting to pick up professional skills; even seasoned journalists may find this a refresher course on better storytelling techniques." —Kurt Lancaster, Northern Arizona University, author of Video Journalism for the Web and DSLR Cinema

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Digital Notebook. 2. Why Do I Care? 3. Thinking Multi-platform. 4. Letting the Story Unfold. 5. Small Story, Big Story. 6. Text Triage: Have Information. 7. Text Triage: Connect Information. 8. Text Triage: Speak the Language. 9. Conventions. 10. Where You Stand: Framing. 11. Where You Stand: Lighting. 12. Where You Stand: Wide, Medium, Close. 13. Collecting Details: Seeing B-Roll and the Stuff of Stories. 14. Collecting Details: Listening for Natural Sound. 15. Talking to Real People. 16. Talking to the Right People. 17. Asking for an Interview. 18. Talking to Multiple People. 19. Preparing Questions. 20. Taking Notes and Recording. 21. Rhythm. 22. Shut Up. 23. Body Language. 24. Location. 25. Quotes. 26. Anecdotes. 27. Relevant Detail. 28. Physical Description. 29. Place Description. 30. Setting a Scene. 31. Action & Sequence. 32. Say It in a Sentence. 33. Complex Information. 34. Numbers & Data. 35. Structure. 36. Storyboard. 37. File Management: Naming. 38. File Management: Folders. 39. File Management: Version Control. 40. One last bit. Glossary. About the Author.

O autorze

Mark Blaine teaches multimedia storytelling techniques in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He has been an investigative reporter, speaker, author, and editor for magazines and newspapers.