First week of graduate school in Journalism at Cal: a crash course in audio and video editing, and Flash animation. Why? Because the school (and the Ford Foundation, which is funding this project) recognizes the role of multimedia, multi-platform storytelling in the future of journalism.
Next, the students targeted local communities, asked what locals would want in local news, and then set about building web sites. They went live at the end of October.
There's one San Francisco site:
And six East Bay sites:
You access them all at: localreport.org
Award winning photojournalist and now J-School faculty member Richard Koci-Hernandez even created a video piece on the project (Vimeo link), but it's not as interesting as clicking around the student's local news sites.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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