ABSTRACT
Multimedia Journalism: A Practical Guide, Second edition builds on the first edition’s expert guidance on working across multiple media platforms, and continues to explore getting started, building proficiency and developing professional standards in multimedia journalism.
The second edition features new chapters including:
- getting started with social media
- live reporting
- building proficiency with Wordpress
- building apps for smartphones and tablets
- building a personal brand and developing a specialism
- long-form video journalism, audio and video news bulletins and magazine programmes.
The new edition also includes an extensive range of new and updated materials essential for all aspects multimedia journalism today. New areas explored include editing video and slideshows for mobile and tablet devices, the advanced use of mobile devices for reporting, location-specific content creation and delivery, the use of video and audio slideshows, and live blogging. Other updates include more material on photojournalism as a storytelling technique, using and transferring digital images and sound, the use of Google Analytics, and practical guides to storytelling through infographics, timelines, interactive graphics and maps.
The book fully engages with multimedia journalism in relation to range of social media and web publishing platforms, including Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, SoundCloud, AudioBoom and iTunes.
The book is also be supported by fully updated online masterclasses at www.multimedia-journalism.co.uk.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part A|185 pages
Getting started
chapter Chapter One|61 pages
Essentials of writing a news story
chapter Chapter Two|24 pages
Creating a publishing platform
chapter Chapter Three|33 pages
Getting started with social media
chapter Chapter Four|22 pages
Audio and podcasting
chapter Chapter Five|43 pages
Still pictures and video
part B|166 pages
Building proficiency
chapter Chapter Six|25 pages
Live blogging and curation
chapter Chapter Seven|21 pages
Developing your abilities as a reporter and interviewer
chapter Chapter Eight|16 pages
Building proficiency with WordPress
chapter Chapter Nine|25 pages
Social and community journalism
chapter Chapter Ten|8 pages
Email bulletins and creating your own RSS feed with Yahoo Pipes
chapter Chapter Eleven|15 pages
Stills, audio and audio-visual packages: Getting the best out of a digital SLR camera
chapter Chapter Twelve|22 pages
Video
chapter Chapter Thirteen|15 pages
Data journalism
chapter Chapter Fourteen|17 pages
Building a personal brand, and developing a specialism
part C|150 pages
Achieving professional standards