Here is a video interview with Mark Payton, Editorial Director of Haymarket Media Group speaking at the MELD workshop in the Sandbox.
Mark is discussing the impact of digital and online media.
The footage was filmed by Andy Dickinson
Vicki
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Image skills
Hi there, here are a few examples of how to crop and resize images for a purpose.
For editing the images I used Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Below is the origional image, which I chose to take of The Media Factory, as I felt it was a usefulidentifying factor of the university, that would be easily recognisible if used online to accompany an article
first I resized the image to a 100x100 pixel thumbnail:
After that I created a 400 wide by 300 pixel high image:
Finally I cropped the image so it was 200 wide by 500 pixels high:
So there a few ways in which you can alter an image to fit a story, or generally illustrate a point.
For editing the images I used Adobe Photoshop CS3.
Below is the origional image, which I chose to take of The Media Factory, as I felt it was a usefulidentifying factor of the university, that would be easily recognisible if used online to accompany an article
first I resized the image to a 100x100 pixel thumbnail:
After that I created a 400 wide by 300 pixel high image:
Finally I cropped the image so it was 200 wide by 500 pixels high:
So there a few ways in which you can alter an image to fit a story, or generally illustrate a point.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Google Maps!
Below is an example of how to use Google Maps in Journalism.
I have extracted four stories from the Lancashire Evening Post (from the 12th of October) and marked the location of where the stroy took place on the map.
I have also given a link to the article on the LEP website, and a related link that would prove useful.
View Stories from around Lancashire in a larger map
Thank You
Vicki
I have extracted four stories from the Lancashire Evening Post (from the 12th of October) and marked the location of where the stroy took place on the map.
I have also given a link to the article on the LEP website, and a related link that would prove useful.
View Stories from around Lancashire in a larger map
Thank You
Vicki
Sunday, 4 October 2009
A Chart showing the number of endangered animals in the world
Below is a chart looking at the number of endangered animals in the world...
as you can see from the statistics the numbers are quite shocking, perhaps suggesting that Global warming is truly having a significant impact on endangered animals via loss of habitat. The United States has the highest number of endangered animals, and therefore should be putting a number of schemes into place to protect them.
This data was obtained from the Gaurdian data store and was submitted by Simon Choppin.
External links:
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/endangered-species-by-country - the site I obtained my raw data from.
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/simon-choppin - further work by Simon Choppin.
*http://www.worldwildlife.org/ - for further information on endangered animals and conservation.
Published by Vicki Roberts
as you can see from the statistics the numbers are quite shocking, perhaps suggesting that Global warming is truly having a significant impact on endangered animals via loss of habitat. The United States has the highest number of endangered animals, and therefore should be putting a number of schemes into place to protect them.
This data was obtained from the Gaurdian data store and was submitted by Simon Choppin.
External links:
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/datablog/2009/sep/02/endangered-species-by-country - the site I obtained my raw data from.
* http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/simon-choppin - further work by Simon Choppin.
*http://www.worldwildlife.org/ - for further information on endangered animals and conservation.
Published by Vicki Roberts
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