Category Archives: Multimedia

Live coverage dominates media’s inauguration plans

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Following up from last week’s post on CNN and NPR’s plans to get social with their coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration as US President, the Associated Press (AP), Al Jazeera and Sky News have all announced plans to host their own online broadcast events:

AP
The agency will live stream the inauguration day events from 7am on its online video network, which is syndicated to partner newspaper and broadcaster websites, in a development of its live coverage of election night in November.

“AP Television News will provide unanchored coverage, from morning coffee at the White House, to the swearing-in ceremony, to the multi-camera shots of the inaugural parade. APTN, with access to dozens of pool cameras along with a dozen of its own, will have cameras in the crowds to capture the sounds and emotions of the millions who plan to attend,” says a release.

Al Jazeera English
The broadcaster will make the most of its recent deal with Livestation by hosting a live webchat on the platform between senior Washington editor Rob Reynolds and viewers on Thursday (Jan 15) at 9pm GMT.

Sky News
Sky News made use of plenty of multimedia and some streaming technology in its coverage of election night. On January 20 a news package ‘Obama: The Inauguration’ will be shown in high definition online and live streaming of the inauguration ceremony from 5pm GMT will also feature.

Tune in at 5pm (GMT) for a live Reuters video Q&A with Congo photographer

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Come back to this link at 5pm to watch a live Qik video Reuters Q&A with Finbarr O’Reilly, an experienced photographer who has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

O’Reilly will be asked about his experiences and motivations for working in the DRC, and users can contribute questions.

His biography can be read here and his video introduction to this Q&A is here.

YouTube names winner of videojournalism contest

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YouTube named the winner of its first journalist contest on Sunday. Arturo Perez Jr took the top prize in the Project:Report competition, which saw participants enter short films in three rounds of video assignments.

Perez was awarded the $10,000 funding prize to travel and work with the Pulitzer Center to produce a report at a ceremony on Sunday night. His winning entry ‘Abilities’ featured residents of Camphill, California – a community where adults with developmental disabilities live, learn and work together – documenting their day-to-day lives on video.

BBC crime journalism: Visual innovation from BBC News on teen murder mapping / Panorama faces allegations for paying teenager to brandish gun

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BBC’s Panorama programme faced allegations last week that a fixer had paid a teenager to wield a gun for a documentary film.

The Liverpool Echo reported:

“A teenage gang member was paid £50 by a ‘fixer’ to flaunt guns for a BBC programme, a court heard.”

The BBC has denied the allegations, and Merseyside Police are to further investigate the claims made in court.

Meanwhile, in a more positive look at the BBC’s crime journalism, Tracy Boyer praises its package designed to map UK’s teen murder toll: ‘great use of data visualization in this latest project,’ she says.

“BBC’s package is divided into four sections: a text overview, the database of victims, victim-map mashup, and a slew of statistics.”

Manchester Evening News mojo captures Ronaldo crash

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The Manchester Evening News‘ decision to equip some journalists with Nokia N95 handsets has started to bear fruit, as mojo (mobile journalist) Nicola Dowling captured Manchester United footballer Cristiano Ronaldo’s recent fender bender.

Dowling’s mobile pics from the scene were supplemented with some video footage, which shows just how high quality the N95 cameras are:

According to a report on HoldtheFrontPage, Dowling’s footage and images were picked up by the Sun, BBC and Sky News.

Croydon Advertiser’s George Hoole – a slideshow retrospective

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Wonderful audio slideshow reflecting the career of retiring photographer and Croydon Advertiser archivist George Hoole, who hangs up his camera next week.

Hoole, 63, who suffered a stroke 30 years ago, has worked in the industry for 34 years and talks about some of his favourite shots in conversation with Advertiser chief photographer David Berman (tip – click on the bottom right button to make it full screen):

Berman has also produced a video documenting how he set up the shoot for the slideshow hosted on the Advertiser’s off-site blog for multimedia reporting – sitbonzo.com.

Hubdub’s news pundit winners: who got it most right and most wrong?

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So, at the end or beginnning of each year, the news pundits predict what’s new and what’s hot for the 12 months ahead, but who then holds them to account? News prediction site Hubdub took a look at the end of 2007 / beginning of 2008 predictions made by news pundits for the year ahead. Which journalists and bloggers were right and which were wrong? And who got it most wrong and took away the illustrious prize of wooden spoon?

The winners:

Politics – Financial Times (other nominees here)

Business – Jon Markman of MSN Money (other nominees)

Technology – MG Siegler of Paris Lemon (other nominees)

Sports – Christopher Clary of IHT (other nominees)

Wooden Spoon – Mark Anderson of Strategy News Service (no nominee list but four runners-up for the category recognising those who got it most wrong: Don Reisinger of CNET, Louis Gray of LouisGray.com, Business Week and Jim Cramer in New York Magazine.)

NB, Worth a read is Anderson’s reaction to winning the Wooden Spoon award (assuming its the authentic Anderson that wrote it). Not your usual acceptance speech:

“This site is self-embarrassing. Saying that trends cancel predictions is self-serving, and rather goofy. Saying that predictions came true, but you didn’t like some aspect of them, is also silly. I’ve re-read this twice, and it seems these all did in fact come true; I stand by them today, just as I did when I made them. But I won’t be bothering reading this site any more, if your only exercise is to whine, rather than look for the accuracy of these calls.”

Update on Al Jazeera coverage of Gaza: mapping and incident lists

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Further to the Follow the Media comment we picked out this morning, here’s a visual explanation of Al Jazeera’s Gaza coverage. Senior New Media Analyst Riyaad Minty outlines the multimedia coverage in an interview on the English channel here:

Maps and incidents listings have been plotted on a specific ‘War on Gaza’ site, using Microsoft Virtual Earth.