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Mar 24 2011

Tech Blog #10: Guest Speaker Kevin Anderson, Al Jazeera English

Posted by rpaul2 in Tech Blog (Guest Speaker), tags: , , , , , ,

Al Jazeera English, the world’s first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East, has a young employee, Kevin Anderson. He Skyped with us in class today! 🙂

Headquartered in Doha, Qatar, he chose Al Jazeera English because he “is trying to cover the Middle East from the Middle East.”

ZeeMaps is a Web site that Anderson highly recommended.

Regarding sound in video, Anderson points out that bad camerawork is forgivable, but bad sound is not. Always make sure that you have good, if not great, sound.

Regarding the usefulness of Storify, make sure that there’s content. Just make sure that it makes sense. Put the sources in context.

The major role of social media is “networked journalism”:

  • It’s not enough to build a Web site anymore
  • You must congregate people online
  • Some of it’s about distribution
  • Use networks to add sources and voices to the story

“I know how to de-mine a field with a Bic pen,” said Anderson, commenting on his “journalism bootcamp” training.

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