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.

chapter

Introduction

Equipping you for the fourth revolution in journalism

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 Eight|16 pages

Building proficiency with WordPress

chapter Chapter Nine|25 pages

Social and community journalism

chapter Chapter Twelve|22 pages

Video

chapter Chapter Thirteen|15 pages

Data journalism

part C|150 pages

Achieving professional standards

chapter Chapter Fifteen|32 pages

Features and in-depth packages

chapter Chapter Seventeen|22 pages

Multi-platform publishing and developing your skills as an editor

How to create smartphone apps, tablet computer editions and print versions of your content

chapter Chapter Eighteen|22 pages

Advanced multimedia storytelling

chapter Chapter Twenty|9 pages

The future