Live coverage with Ustream
Posted: October 28, 2010 Filed under: Great tools, Just for fun, Video, Work | Tags: Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, iPhone, Spokane, Ustream, Westboro Baptist Church, Whitworth University Comments OffLast week the Westboro Baptist Church came to town. Although we were reticent about giving any more attention to Fred Phelps and his message of hate than absolutely necessary, we had to acknowledge that the Spokane community was planning to turn out in numbers to protest. We had to be there. And in the end, we produced out some solid coverage.
With Westboro’s well-publicized schedule of appearances, it seemed an easy opportunity to try something new with our live coverage at spokesman.com. Drawing from advice I got from Danny Gawlowski at the Northwest Video Workshop, I decided to try Ustream to shoot some live video.
For a trial effort, it went well. I shot live feeds of the counterprotests at Gonzaga University, Whitworth University and Eastern Washington University. Below you can check out the (choppy) replay of the EWU counter demonstration, easily the biggest of the day, then read on for some specs, tips and observations about using Ustream with an iPhone.
Publish2 link roundup
Posted: October 26, 2010 Filed under: Reading Comments OffBelow are some links I’ve recently saved on Publish2.
Tips and tools to innovate with during election night coverage
- | Online Journalism Review Oct 25, 2010
Northwest Video Workshop – storify.com
- | Storify.com Oct 20, 2010
Storify page on NW Video Workshop, which I attended last weekend.
Why KREM 2 News is covering the Westboro protests
- | www.krem.com Oct 20, 2010
Interesting.
“As Benjamin Franklin said when faced with this same kind of editorial quandary three hundred years ago, ‘when men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; and that when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.’”
Northwest Video Workshop
Posted: October 25, 2010 Filed under: Video | Tags: Anne Herbst, Boyd Huppert, Danny Gawlowski, interviews, KING 5, Multimedia, Northwest Video Workshop, tips Comments Off
Photo by Jesse Tinsley
I attended the Northwest Video in Workshop in Seattle on Oct. 16. I made new friends, talked shop with other journalists and picked up some inspiration. A couple of (seriously overdue) notes and musings.
By design, the conference was high on inspiration and low on technical training. And that’s cool. The speakers shared more than a dozen great examples of video storytelling that reminded us of why good journalism matters.
My friends produced this parody of a parody
Posted: October 18, 2010 Filed under: Just for fun, Video | Tags: I'm on a boat, Lonely Island, New Mexico, parody, Raton Comments OffMy friend Starr visited last week and showed me the early cut of a video that she made with our mutual pals Johanna and Kyle. It’s a send-up of “I’m on a Boat, and now the finished version is on Funny or Die. If you’ve seen the Lonely Island original, you might get a laugh.
Publish2 link roundup
Posted: October 6, 2010 Filed under: Reading Comments OffBelow are some links I’ve recently saved on Publish2. These will post weekly on Sunday evenings when I remember to post them.
“Genevieve Alvarez shows journalists ‘How to gear up’” by Monica Guzman: A Story on Intersect
- | intersect.com
Want.
What “engagement” means to Voice of San Diego’s Grant Barrett
- | RJI Blog Sep 29, 2010
I love this idea about finding the right audience through Google and sharing it directly with them via email list.
That, in a nutshell, is Grant’s job: getting the content to the right readers, and bringing the right readers to the content. Hunting down the people who need to see it, even calling folks (like, on a telephone!) to introduce them to the content, and then hoping they find value in it.