Infografia | InfoGraph - Euro2008 Team-o-Mat

O jornal suíço Neue Zürcher Zeitung criou uma infografia/jogo interactiva para descobrirmos qual é a equipa do Euro2008 que melhor nos “assenta”. Está em alemão mas está tão bem feita que se percebe logo como funciona. Via Nico Luchsinger.

The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung has made an interactive infographic/game for the users to find out which team from Euro2008 fits them best. It’s in german, but it’s so good that we can tell right away how it works. Via Nico Luchsinger.

Descubra a sua |Team-O-Mat| Find out yours

Um jornal já não é um jornal | A newspaper is no longer a newspaper

Um jornal passou a ser tudo inclusivé um jornal: hoje em dia é um canal para video, uma rádio online. Por aqui acreditamos que o futuro passa por criar sinergias com outros meios de comunicação e incorporá-los na vida de uma publicação. Foi o que se fez no The Spokesman Review, que contratou dois profissionais de rádio (não foram dois estagiários tenrinhos, acabadinhos de sair da faculdade a ganhar o subsídio de alimentação,para trabalhar com um microfone de 5 euros e uma versão pirata do Soundforge), para fazer noticiários em áudio de dois minutos.

A newspaper can now be anything including a newspaper: nowadays it’s a video channel, an online radio. Around here we believe that the future goes through by creating synergies with other media and embedd them in the newspaper life. That’s what happened at The Spokesman Review, that hired two radio pros (not two tender-fresh-out-of college trainees, making almost no money at all to work with a cheap plastic mic and a pirate version of Soundforge) to publish audio newscasts in two minute long editions.

Two veteran news radio broadcasters were hired and a state of the art radio news production studio was built in the newsroom. Our “radio guys” as they are affectingly called, have settled in without too many cultural adjustments. The workflow changes for people in the newsroom have been pretty minimal. Reporters are being asked to record audio sound bites from some of their stories. Occasionally they are interviewed for broadcast about stories they’ve reported on.

Radio from the newsroom

Palavras chave: veteranos, state of the art, construído. E contratados. O investimento parece compensar, infelizmente a maioria dos directores de jornais em Portugal parece pensar de outra forma, mas eles é que sabem, levam mais anos disto do que eu, e eu respeito a experiência dos mais velhos. É pena é que a teimosia e a surdez estejam associados à velhice. O video também parece estar a tomar as redacções de assalto, pelo menos é o que diz este trabalho da Newspaper Association of America, que dá indicações sobre como se pode incorporar este formato numa redacção tradicional. A ler e a recomendar a quem não sabe destas coisas.

Keywords: veterans, state of the art, built. And hired. The investment seems to be paying off, but unfortunately most newspaper directors here in Portugal seem to think differently, but it’s their prerrogative, they have more years of this than i do, and i was taught to respect the experience of the elderly. It’s a shame that pigheadedness and being deaf are associated to old age. Video seems to be taking the newsrooms by assault, at least that’s what is written in this work of the Newspaper Association of America, that is also a great guide on how to insert this format in a traditional newsroom.To read and recommend to those who still don’t know about it.

“Zooming In on Online Video: A Development & Growth Guide for Newspaper Web Sites” is intended to help newspapers of any size develop profitable video applications. The cost of entry to create quality video continues to decline while the success of online video continues to grow. As competition heats up for online video mindshare, newspapers have an excellent opportunity to leverage their skills and content and capture an even large share of online advertising spending.

Zooming in Online Video

Video: Distributed acts of journalism and journalistic acts of distribution

Paul Bradshaw fala da importância e da alteração do papel da distribuição dos conteúdos noticiosos pela internet. Um vídeo pequeno mas muito interessante. Tem ainda a curiosidade de ter sido publicado através do Seesmic.

Paul Bradshaw talks about the importance and the changes in the role of distribution of news content through the internet. A small but very interesting video. Note the fact it was published with Seesmic.

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Distributed acts of journalism and journalistic acts of distribution

Jogos noticiosos | News games

Tem-se pensado muito como aumentar a interactividade e o interesse dos leitores de notícias online, que de tanto pensar passou-se por cima do óbvio. Como é que nós todos nos interessámos por computadores? Através dos jogos (principalmente…). Por isso é de estranhar que só agora se pense mais a sério na utilização de jogos para formar e informar. Aqui ficam alguns exemplos:

There has been a lot of thinking about how to increase the interactivity and the interest of online news readers, so much we may have past through the obvious. How did we all got into computers? through games (mostly..). So it’s strange that only now people are seriously thinking about using games to inform and teach. Here are some examples:

There are the usual suspects when it comes to multimedia news pieces: slideshows of the wonders of nature, interactive diagrams of new buildings, video interviews with the downtrodden… all of which likely teach the viewer something new. But sometimes the news needs a little dose of fun factor.

Considering many people under 30 aren’t picking up newspapers or listen to non-music radio programming, making a fun online game is a great way to hook them in. As long as the games remain diverting without being overbearing, they will continue to succeed.

Ler post original para ver jogos | Read original post for game links

News games are fun (and informative!), 10.000words

Breakthrough, an organization that does human rights work in both the United States and India, has released a game, ICED (I Can End Deportation) to help players learn the ins and outs of immigration policy and rights. The game, which targets youth, is intended to teach players how unfair U.S. immigration policy is.

The game is available as a free download, and includes educational materials for teachers who might want to use the game in the classroom. It’s an interesting intersection of web activism and educational gaming, to say the least.

Gaming as Immigration Rights Project

Flash Doc

Um documentário incrível sobre a vida nas ruas de Bucareste. Um excelente exemplo de jornalismo multimédia. Via Mark Graham.

A stunning documentary about life in Bucharest streets. An excellent example of multimedia Journalism. Via Mark Graham.

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Bucharest Below Ground