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AP interactive – DC Metro Crash

AP multimedia folks Damiko Morris, Jane Bell and myself put together an interactive laying out the chronology of the DC’s worst metro rail accident ever.

If you wanted to know how the DC Metro Crash happened check out the interactive.


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AP Interactive – Afghan Girl Burns

Fellow AP staffers Evan Vucci and Rafiq Maqbool filed this haunting video/photo piece of an Afghanistan girl burned by white phosphorus.
The attack killed two of Razia’s sisters, and wounded five other people in her family.
You can also read the entire AP story about how the docs at Bagram Air Base saved the young girl.
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Top 10 Takeaways – Multimedia Immersion ‘09

It’s been roughly a week since I returned from the NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a week of intense multimedia training from smart leaders in online journalism from around the country.  I didn’t post nearly as much as I wanted to while in Vegas due to a combined lack of [...]


Multimeida Immersion 2009 – Day 3

Multimedia Immersion 2009 is well under way as we enter into day 3.  The students have learned a lot about storytelling methods and techniques for shooting video.
Today gets a little intense as we introduce most people to Final Cut Pro for the first time.
Of the roughly 50 students, most paid their own way in an [...]


Vegas Baby!

I’m off to Vegas today for a week of non-stop multimedia fun at the NPPA conference in Las Vegas.  I am one of 25 coaches for a Multimedia Immersion workshop. The other coaches are some of the top multimedia minds in the country.  Vegas hasn’t seen this much talent in one room since the Rat [...]


Freep has fun in Pittsburgh

Tonight is game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals series between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins and some of the video guys from the Detroit Free Press have put together a couple of fun videos during their visit to the ‘Burgh.
Speaking Pittsburghese – Free Press reporter Ben Schmitt learns the language of [...]