Jeff’s Words

Technology has changed the way we get news. The internet has provided us with an unprecedented amount of information. Never before have we been able to access the latest news from at home, to the other side of the world with just a click. The evolution of connection speeds through broadband internet has improved this [...]

Post meant for Group Blog – http://alj301mmj.edublogs.org/ Fast and efficient connections are the key to success in the new world of multimedia journalism. Broadband internet and the 3G mobile phone network allows for the rapid transmission of data, allowing news to be filed quicker than ever before. Tech savvy users demand speedy access to data [...]

Hurricane Ike in the last week menaced much of the Caribbean before slamming in to Texas on Saturday (Australian time). Ike whipped up strong winds and a huge storm surge when it hit, but also whipped up another frenzy – content generated by citizen journalists embedded in the storm’s path. A plethora of user generated [...]

The technological revolution has spawned a new medium of communication. Ipods, and other mp3players took the market by storm earlier this decade. Most people under thirty now have an mp3player of some sort. Mp3 players gave the consumer choice – they could put their music on small, compact machines capable of holding hundreds of songs. [...]

The internet has allowed the development of converged mass media. News websites number the hundreds of thousands – both “official” media and self run “citizen” news sites, such as OhMy News. An increase in the ammount of news online has brought together the need to build stories up in to a non linear format providing [...]

South Koreas’ OhMy News is one of the world’s largest citizen news websites. Launched in 2000, OhMy News has become one of South Korea’s most trusted news organisations. In 2002 the website’s influence reached 4.2 per cent of the population, while in 2004 that had increased to over 17 per cent. OhMy News is more [...]

The soundslide on the conflict in Darfur, Conflict in Crayon, is an interesting and effective way of telling the story of human suffering in the war ravaged region of Sudan. The multimedia combines audio, pictures and drawings to engage the viewer and offer a more personal telling of the story. The narration by Dr Annie [...]

Increasingly, the news media is relying on user generated content (UGC) for footage of news events. The July 2005 bombings of London’s transport network was the catalyst for mainstream media such as the BBC adopting UGC to supplement content. Photos taken deep underground of wrecked train carriages remain the only footage available to the media [...]

Time poor consumers who struggle to sift through truckloads of news each year, can pick the news with just a click of the mouse. Broadband provides efficient access to a host of news and information. The user can pick a text version of a story, or watch it or listen to it. The internet allows [...]

Multimedia journalism is a growing and evolving aspect of the new media world. We’ve seen an accelerated expansion of journalism through the internet with news sites now featuring a wealth of multimedia features. Where once news was text, pictures (print), and video (television), with media convergence all these mediums come together on the one platform [...]