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Observations on digital media by the faculty and staff of the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.

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KDMC Bay Area Blogger Training

By Alisha Diego Klatt, November 6, 2009

The Knight Digital Media Center will host a free, four-hour training designed for budding Bay Area bloggers – who’ve been at it for at least three months – and are interested in boosting their multimedia skills in order to strengthen blog content and increase site traffic.

KDMC Adds Presentations Index

By Scot Hacker, October 28, 2009

KDMC has been running training workshops for years now, with each workshop consisting of many presentations. There are now more than 358 separate presentations in our database, many with webcasts. Check out our new Presentations Directory to easily find the ideas, technologies, and speakers associated with our workshops.

KDMC Launches Bloggers' Directory

By Scot Hacker, October 15, 2009

The Knight Digital Media Center is pleased to announce the launch of a sister site, the Bay News Network. BNN is a directory of Bay Area blogs and news sites doing some form of local coverage. The site also provides aggregated RSS mashups of feeds from participating sites. Want to get listed? See the guidelines.

Blogging with the Experts

By Scot Hacker, October 14, 2009

The typical blog post involves an author holding forth, followed by responses to that post from the public. But UC Berkeley's Office of Public Affairs turned this model on its head recently with the launch of blogs.berkeley.edu. In Berkeley's model, topical questions are chosen by site editors, then farmed out to more than 100 campus experts ...

High Schoolers Explore Race In Response to the Obama Presidency

By Shilanda Woolridge, September 25, 2009

Sarah Hoye (Jan 09) followed a diverse group of students from the election to the end of the 2009 school year, and produced a thought provoking multimedia piece regarding race in the age of Obama.  Hoye is a multimedia journalist for the Tampa Tribune.

KDMC Fellows Win a National Emmy

By Shilanda Woolridge, September 24, 2009

Kathleen Galligan (June 08) and Regina Boone (Jan 08) were part of the Detroit Free Press team that won an Emmy for their multimedia package on Christ Child House, a foster home for boys in Detroit.

Assignment Detroit to Chronicle the Fall and Rise of an All-American City

By Shilanda Woolridge, September 24, 2009

Time Magazine has pledged to follow Detroit closely for the next year.  The findings will be reported in The Detroit Blog. Steven Gray (June 2009) will blog and cover stories for the initiative.  He introduces the project in his post Letter to Detroit.

The New York Times covered the project in Investment in a City of Struggles.

July '09 Alumna is part of an Award Winning Online Journal

By Shilanda Woolridge, September 18, 2009

Ann Lolordo is the Opinion Editor for the Baltimore Sun and a writer for the Baltimore Brew.   The Baltimore Brew is an irreverent mix of hyperlocal reporting and opinion writing about the Baltimore area. It was awarded Best Local Blog 2009 by Baltimore City Paper.

Bee Story on 45s Generates Big Traffic

By Scot Hacker, August 5, 2009

Knight Fellow Manny Cristomo of the Sacramento Bee produced an excellent video piece about a collection of 45 RPM records that found its way back to the original owner's son, 30 years after her death. The feel-good piece has generated more than 1.8 million page views.

July Multimedia Webcasts

By Adel Rahbari, July 9, 2009

Our July multimedia workshop has come and gone, and was once again a smashing success. Webcasts from two of our featured presentations are now online, and can be found here. Also available is a downloadable PDF from our Multimedia Design Principles lecture.

May '09 Alum Anna Johnson Covers Iran Elections

By Paul Grabowicz, June 21, 2009

Anna Johnson, an AP reporter and editor based in the Middle East, produced a photo slideshow and a video on the Iranian elections. Anna was in the KDMC's May 2009 multimedia workshop.

June Multimedia Webcasts

By Scot Hacker, June 12, 2009

Another week of multimedia workshops has passed, and we've beeen webcasting featured panelists and speakers live.  Video archives are now online.

Twitter Dividends

By Scot Hacker, June 8, 2009

An interesting question came up amongst alumni of our training programs recently: Are journalistic organizations seeing an up-tick in traffic to their sites as a result of regular Twitter usage? What other incentives are there to use Twitter, if driving traffic isn't the main goal? We thought some of our alumni reactions were so interesting, we're reposting them here (with permission):

Webcasting with Django

By Scot Hacker, May 20, 2009

The KDMC webcast system handles week-long events which consist of multiple presentations, which in turn may or may not include a webcast. Meanwhile, webcasts have to be handled both live and in archived form. Webasting presents some special problems when delivering Django views (KDMC is a Django-driven site). Webmaster Scot Hacker has done a write-up on his own blog explaining ...

May 2009 Workshop Webcasts

By Scot Hacker, May 17, 2009

The May 2009 Multimedia workshop is complete, and featured an excellent collection of speakers, including representatives from the Detroit Free Press, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, NewsMarket, and the Portland Press Herald.  Archived webcasts have been posted for posterity.

P.I. Reed School of Journalism

By Scot Hacker, May 11, 2009

Fellow John Temple, who is associate dean of P.I. Reed School of Journalism implemented a program whereby students of the school will produce multimedia projects for local papers, and in turn teach the staffers at those newspapers on how they did it. Congratulations John on spearheading this program.

Shreveport Times Mashup

By Scot Hacker, May 11, 2009

RustonFellow Scott Anderson, video and technology editor for The Times in Shreveport, Louisiana shares with us a Google Map he produced offering locations of hurricane shelters to the public and which ones were over-capacity during Hurricane Gustav.

Detroit Free Press Video

By Scot Hacker, May 11, 2009

Fellow Eric Seals, photographer and multimedia producer for the Detroit Free Press produced this fantastic video on local coach Courtney Hawkins of Flint (MI) Beecher High School.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch Videos

By Scot Hacker, May 11, 2009

dispatchFellow Penelope Carrington, multimedia reporter for the The Richmond Times-Dispatch, shared with us some videos she produced for her paper during the recent inauguration ceremonies. Check out her videos  (She produced "Virginians grasp a piece of history", "Outside the Mall", and "Early Morning").

J-Lab announces Knight Batten Award

By Jeremy Rue, April 20, 2009

Our good friends over at J-Lab, located at American University's School of Communication in Washington D.C., have announced their Knight-Batten Awards for innovation in Journalism.

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