Tune in Thursday at noon EST to watch Paige West, director of interactive projects at MSNBC.com.
Why? Because you can’t get enough of multimedia.
To try to satisfy your hunger for awesome information about awesome storytelling, we’ll be livestreaming the new round of lunch speakers at part two of two of Beyond Bootcamp.
(The “we” is Trevor Green operating the three built-in cameras and mics from the control room, me in the room with my laptop managing the livestream/chat/promotion and the UM School of Communication’s equipment and facilities.)
We’ll also be streaming Friday and Saturday’s lunch speeches. Information about speakers will follow, but both will be from noon to 2 p.m. EST.
Watch the Thursday speech by West here (not visable in RSS feed) or at:
Megan summarized it all very well, so I won’t repeat what’s already been said except to thank Chris O’Brien for organizing what was hands-down one of the best journalism conferences I’ve attended — and I’ve been to quite a few, thanks to The Miami Hurricane and UM’s SPJ chapter.
I’d also like to thank Megan for providing the proper computer to stream video live using ustream.tv and later Yahoo!Live with my Canon HV20, which would have been impossible because I don’t have a computer with a six-pin FireWire port. Her hand mic was another asset, helping us get pretty decent sound, and she played videographer for the first livestreamed session before I — sadly — gave back her MacBook Pro.
I couldn’t have done it without her. And besides the awesomeness that is livestreaming video, this is a great testament to the importance of working as a team. I’ve done mojo/backpack journalist/one-man-band coverage of events before, but backpack journalist-squared is hands down the better way to go.
For more great coverage of the conference, as Megan also cites, check out Bryan Murley’s CoverItLive blogs: day 1 and day 2.
They don’t have a journalism program, so they didn’t have to deal with traditional structures.
“There is no Web editor. It’s everyone’s responsibility to produce for the Web.”
“We sort of dismantled some of that traditional structure.”
Murley, CICM
Reverse publication – post story online first
“It seems antiquated” to break something in print
There are very few Web editors who become editor in chief, and that should change
Brad Arendt, general manager, The Arbiter, Boise State
Their six-step process: Story, path, deadline, communicate, edit, execute
Try to have a collaborative thought process in management
“The story is the key”
Dan Morris, adviser, The Arbiter, Boise State
They have had editors in chief who have been the photo editor, assistant opinion editor, opinion writer who worked on local TV station, etc. That’s made changing structure a little bit easier.
Greg Linch, editor in chief, The Miami Hurricane
I was just yapping about what we do. Blah, blah, blah…
Megan Taylor, managing editor for online, The Independent Florida Alligator
They instated a requirement for staffers to produce multimedia
Because they are independent, their funds are limited and that’s why her staff is two people
Everyone is still print biased
John North, The Knoxville News Sentinel
We crow when we can beat TV with posting online
Shannon Morgan, editor in chief, The Arbiter, Boise State
We’re trying to get people to tell stories in more than on way
80-100 people
My problem now is trying to figure out how to restructure the staff
Kevin Koehler, contributing editor (online editor), Old Gold and Black, Wake Forest
Making the transition to Web, it’s hard to get people think of doing things and doing them well
People want to do it, there’s interest and people are excited, but they have to learn how it’s done
They don’t have a journalism major or any new media courses
“It’s too big of a hump on their on a pressing deadline”
Arendt, The Arbiter
We tried embedding a multimedia person in the section, but it failed because they were left out or ignored
It’s important to look at your deadlines for your output
They expect 2-3 paragraph piece recapping a game after it ends, then they follow up