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Tutorials Available in PDF Format

Mon, May 5, 2008
We've added a new feature to our multimedia and digital media tutorials -- Save as PDF. While we've always offered a "Print" view from our tutorials, from which Mac users can easily generate a PDF with OS X's built-in Print To PDF capabilties, Windows users without the full ...

Finding longitude and latitude of a location using Google Maps

Fri, May 2, 2008
Using Google Maps, you can find the longitude and latitude coordinates of any location. The trick is to center the map on the point you want to retrieve and type some javascript code in the URL.

Interactive Map on Dangerous Intersections

Thu, April 24, 2008

The Bay Area Newspaper Group has an interactive map on dangerous intersections for which users are generating the content, and there's quite a lot of it.

Here's the map.

And here's their story about it and how people are contributing to it.

Online Startups by Former Newspaper Staffers

Thu, April 24, 2008

Former staffers at the St. Louis Post Dispatch are launching their own online newspaper - the St. Louis Platform. Here's a story about it in the Chicago Reader.

We're beginning to see a trend here - reporters and editors quitting their newspaper jobs or taking buyouts and launching online alternatives ...

Design Notes from the NY Times

Tue, April 22, 2008

The NY Times has posted an interesting interview with Design Director Khoi Vinh, who discusses some of the more  obscure/hidden aspects of the Gray Lady's online presence.  One of the things that's always struck me about nytimes.com is its choice of a large-ish, serif'd font ...

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Forum Discussions rss

  • Flash vs. HTML Survey
    Last Post by Scot Hacker
    2 months, 1 week ago
    Hills - SoundSlides exports an HTML mini-site that embeds a small .swf element - a whole hierarchy of files and folders, images and audio files, ...

  • Future workshop suggestions???
    Last Post by Jeremy Rue
    2 months, 3 weeks ago
    We're gearing up for our workshops in March, April and May. Other than what was mentioned in the evaluations, is there any suggestions for us ...

  • What compression software do you use?
    Last Post by Milan Andric
    1 month ago
    Hey JP, I've been using flash video encoder for some time to compress video to flv (Flash Video) format. It's a standalone application that comes ...

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Seminar Webcasts

Visual Urban Data: A Journey Through Oakland Crimespotting

Apr 16, 2008 12:30 p.m. CDT

Michal Migurski Stamen Design

Community Journalism - Annoyance or Opportunity?

Apr 16, 2008 6:30 p.m. CDT

Kate Everett Thorp Real Girls Media

"I know I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous: thriving amidst media chaos

Apr 15, 2008 6:30 p.m. CDT

Paul Saffo Stanford University

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New Projects

Tuco-Tucos: Ctenomys Sociabilis

By Michael Mccarter, Nikita Patel, Becky Risch, John Russial

UC Berkeley scientists think the tuco-tuco, a furry little burrowing rodent in the southwestern Argentina river valley, might help them answer important questions about why some animals live in groups rather than by themselves.

Just Your Type : Typewriting in Berkeley

By Kim Nowacki, Marty Durlin, Michael Leland, Regina Boone, Ron Harris

Berkeley typewriters Joe and Jesse Banuelos have been caring for keyboards for nearly 40 years.

The Digital Da Vinci: Artist & Inventor Steve Beck

By Bill Dedman, Julia Schmalz, Katharine Fong, Robert Lopez, Stephanie Horvath

Berkeley artist and engineer Steve Beck describes his eclectic career meshing art and electronics.

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Workshops

We are not currently accepting applicants for upcoming workshops. If you have been accepted to a coming workshop, see the links below for more information.

About the Center

The Knight Digital Media Center is dedicated to helping good journalists and good journalism succeed in the 21st Century. Housed jointly at University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication.

The training provided at USC focuses on leadership and topic training to journalists already working in online, multimedia environments. The seminars aim to increase participants' critical thinking and depth of understanding of the topics they cover and the environment they publish in.

Training at UCB focuses on multimedia skill development and technology training for reporters and editors. Topics covered include using digital video, photo and audio equipment; storyboarding; voiceovers and other broadcast techniques; video and audio editing; website creation and design; using database-driven map mash-ups, blogging, podcasting and more.

The program was initially established in 1999 as the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism through a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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For more information, including future seminars, see the training workshops and About page on this site.

Latest Tutorials

Map Mashup Resources

Published April 21, 2008

This is a set of resources for map mashups. The resources include links to sample sites used in the KDMC Tech Training Workshops and links to online resources for creating ...

Building Flash Templates

Published March 20, 2008

This tutorial will go through the process of constructing a simple Flash template with three buttons. Each button will take you to a different section of the project that will ...

Flash Templates

Published Jan. 9, 2008

A tutorial on how to create and use templates for creating news projects using Adobe Flash. A general understanding of the basics of Flash is required for this instruction on ...

Soundslides Slide Shows

Published Nov. 7, 2007

Soundslides has become one of the industry standards in creating audio slideshows due to its simple interface, low cost and its devotion to journalistic storytelling.

Dictation Recorders

Published Sept. 18, 2007

Many times professional digital audio recorders such as the Marantz PMD 660 are either not available or are too expensive. This tutorial will show one cheaper "non recommended" alternative when ...

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Comments

shacker: Hi Milena - SoundSlides has always been a Mac application! It only later became available for Window... [More ...]
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ohcisco: I have learned a great deal from the few moments that I spent with your online tutorial - I knew wha... [More ...]
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robertsala: Same here. Mi embedded video never stops at the end. It loops over and over again. I've tried enteri... [More ...]
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scook: Hi, How do you prevent the video from looping? I have tried applying your tutorial to a Flash photo... [More ...]
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LSaunders: yea this is really true i would back that up always headroom and noseroom will not do while filming... [More ...]
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mvodanovic: Could you tell me about an equivalent application in mac? Maybe I'm making a stupid question, but I ... [More ...]
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