Comments on: Build those breaking news Web pages and they will come http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/ www.visualeditors.com/apple Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dean Lockwood http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-5078 Dean Lockwood Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:48:47 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/#comment-5078 Don't lose site of the other truth here: NOTHING moves local web traffic like Significant Weather. Great job by Rockford in jumping on it. Don’t lose site of the other truth here: NOTHING moves local web traffic like Significant Weather.

Great job by Rockford in jumping on it.

]]> By: Chris Soprych http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-5030 Chris Soprych Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:57:06 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/#comment-5030 What Rob said is really important. You really have to use the tools and the talent available to cover the story, Flash would have been nice, but we lack the expertise. We can up with some work arounds and pushed forward on shooting and editing videos, Google maps etc. Check out the video on the evacuation of the newsroom. Part one: Winter tornado surprises Boone County (01/08/08) It was a great first day for Billy Kulpa. His breaking news video is the top video Edwards Apple Orchard owners coping with tornado damage (01/07/08) BTW- Check out what we did do with Flash on the 40th anniversary of a tornado that struck Belvidere, about 10 miles south. An interesting note-- we did this project in ten days during an election week. Its multimedia so you'll need sound. http://www.e-rockford.com/special_sections/deploy/index.html What Rob said is really important. You really have to use the tools and the talent available to cover the story, Flash would have been nice, but we lack the expertise. We can up with some work arounds and pushed forward on shooting and editing videos, Google maps etc.

Check out the video on the evacuation of the newsroom.
Part one: Winter tornado surprises Boone County (01/08/08)

It was a great first day for Billy Kulpa. His breaking news video is the top video
Edwards Apple Orchard owners coping with tornado damage (01/07/08)

BTW- Check out what we did do with Flash on the 40th anniversary of a tornado that struck Belvidere, about 10 miles south. An interesting note– we did this project in ten days during an election week. Its multimedia so you’ll need sound.

http://www.e-rockford.com/special_sections/deploy/index.html

]]> By: Robb Montgomery http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-5028 Robb Montgomery Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:34:19 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/#comment-5028 Brilliant report - a stellar example of how today's Web multimedia language is not really about using Flash, after all. More about using the right digital journalism story components in real time. Would like to see thumbnails for videos instead of text links. Love the mashup map. Love the knockout effort of the staff reports and how smartly they crafted in reader reports. b-r-a-v-o More papers ought to be doing this type of web multimedia everyday rather than thinking of multimedia as documentaries that only impresses other journalists and overwrought Flash projects that only impress coders. Then when a big event strikes - you ramp up the reporting like seen here. Book mark this page. Now. Brilliant report - a stellar example of how today’s Web multimedia language is not really about using Flash, after all. More about using the right digital journalism story components in real time. Would like to see thumbnails for videos instead of text links. Love the mashup map. Love the knockout effort of the staff reports and how smartly they crafted in reader reports.

b-r-a-v-o

More papers ought to be doing this type of web multimedia everyday rather than thinking of multimedia as documentaries that only impresses other journalists and overwrought Flash projects that only impress coders.

Then when a big event strikes - you ramp up the reporting like seen here.

Book mark this page. Now.

]]> By: Autumn http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/comment-page-1/#comment-5026 Autumn Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:25:07 +0000 http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/01/build-those-breaking-news-web-pages-and-they-will-come/#comment-5026 Wow! All that video and those photo galleries and the Google map. Tons of information there for readers. Wow! All that video and those photo galleries and the Google map. Tons of information there for readers.

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