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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The best book I've read on journalism in the digital era. It's comprehensive without becoming ponderous. It should become the standard text for journalism students."--Eric Chatterjee, Northern Kentucky University "I love that attention is paid to issues like usability, navigation, and the audience. Too often those issues are left out of textbooks."--Jennifer Mackay, Virginia Tech "I love this book. I would not hesitate to adopt this text for use in multimedia classes or workshops. It is well organized, and complete but concise. The greatest strength of this text is the balance between principle and practice, and the two are integrated well. I also loved the integration of support comments from working professionals and academics that George-Palilonis includes throughout the book. This provides another level of legitimacy to the material she presents."--Linda Menck, Marquette University
Table of ContentsPreface: Acknowledgements: About the Author: UNIT I. MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM CHAPTER 1. Defining Multimedia Information architecture in the digital world CHAPTER 2. Collaboration and Specialization Reporting & editing in interdisciplinary teams CHAPTER 3. Planning Multimedia Assessing multimedia potential for your stories CHAPTER 4. Navigation and Interactivity Planning and testing for the user experience UNIT II. SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE CHAPTER 5. Groundwork The well-rounded journalist CHAPTER 6. Writing Writing stories across platforms CHAPTER 7. Photojournalism Capturing the moments that transcend language CHAPTER 8. Audio Sound storytelling CHAPTER 9. Video Visual storytelling and news in motion CHAPTER 10. Information Graphics Visualizing the News UNIT III. ONWARD & UPWARD CHAPTER 11. Story Packaging Multimedia design and content management CHAPTER 12. Looking Forward The future of news . . . and your place in it
