About Shilanda Woolridge
Stories
Digital media stories published elsewhere by Shilanda Woolridge:
- KDMC Fellows Win a National Emmy [edit]
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. - Poynter Institute Showcases KDMC Fellows Using Timelines with Dippity [edit]
Two KDMC fellows were quoted in a Poynter article about creating interactive timelines using Dipity. Craig Gima (Jan'10), assistant city editor and reporter at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, produced a timeline to explain an ongoing crime story. Wendy Norris (Jan '10), editor and publisher at Western Citizen, used a timeline to organize the events of the Ted Haggard sex and drug scandal.
Writing
Content on this site written by Shilanda Woolridge (includes contributory writing):
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Blog Posts
- KDMC Fellow to Oversee Online News Initiatives at the National Journal
- David Beard (May '07) is joining the National Journal as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Online Editor. Beard will supervise the free and subscription sites, and work with the editorial team in ...
- 25th Anniversary of the MOVE confrontation in Philadelphia
- Larry Kesterson (July '09) and colleagues at the Philadelphia Inquirer produced an extensive feature on the 1985 stand-off between police and the radical group MOVE. The altercation ended when the ...
- Minnesota Conservation Magazine Multimedia
- Gustave Axelson (Jan '10) produced a package about his canoe trip on the Cloquet River with an interactive Flash map. Axelson supported colleagues to create a package on trout angling ...
- Deaf, but not silent: Priest abuse victim speaks out
- Sarah Hoye (Jan '09) produced a multimedia package for CNN about Arthur Budzinski, who was molested by a priest while he was a Catholic school student. Budzinski has spoken out ...
- Go Down Under in Kansas
- Ralph Gage and reporters from the Lawrence Journal World explored bat caves, undergroud storage vaults and salt mines using audio, video, photo galleries and 360-degree panoramas (Ralph was a speaker ...
- These are the People in the Neighborhood
- Sherri Williams (June 08) and colleagues at the Columbus Dispatch are producing a long-term project on the neighborhoods in Franklin County. Some of the profiles have multimedia content.
- Community Capital Helps to fund Remedy Cafe
- Stephanie Ogburn (Jan '10) produced a multimedia package on Remedy Cafe, a North Oakland coffee shop that courted investment capital from friends and customers instead of banks.
- The Grand Hotel Spruces Up for another Season
- The majestic Grand Hotel has received guests since 1887. Located on Mackinac island off the northern tip of Michigan, the hotel is a popular summer retreat for vacationers. The hotel ...
- One Man's Trash is this Man's Treasure. Sometimes.
- Scott Smith (Jun '08) of the Stockton Record used a slide show to tell the tale of a treasure hunter who became the bewildered owner of over 6,000 dental records.
- UC Davis project puts conventional and organic gardening in a one-hundred-year bout.
- Stephanie Ogburn (Jan '10) produced some videos for the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis. The first is about an experiment to see whether tomatoes grow better with conventional ...
- The Grapevine Brings Deaf Taxman More Business
- Gary Jacobson is a 60-year-old accountant who helps deaf and hard of hearing clients with their taxes. Patricia Nazario (Dec '09) got the story in text, radio and video. Nazario ...
- Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Prepares for Iraq
- Vanessa Deggins (Jan '09) and collegue Elona Weston documented the 256th infantry while they prepared for a year long tour of duty in Iraq. The soldiers performed exercises at Camp ...
- How the West Balanced Its Budgets?
- Stephanie Ogburn's (Jan '10) new Flash map illustrates how deep the defecits are in many West Coast states. Fortunately, it's not all bad news, Oregon and Montana are in the ...
- KDMC Alum Wins an Award for Showing Business People at Play
- The Virginia Press Association gave Jennifer Nycz-Conner (May '09) an award for three slideshows she made soon after completing the boot camp. See Washington chef Jose Andres celebrate the big ...
- UC Berkeley Newsroom Uses Multimedia to Educate and Englighten
- Alec Rosenberg (July '08) assembled a package about how the University of California helps to inform the public about invasive pests. Harry Mok (Jan '10) helped put together a multimedia ...
- Take a Trip to Minnesota Via Multimedia
- Gustave Axelson (Jan '10) assembled a slide show for the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer about a farmer that sued to save his wetlands and won. Axelson coached his associate editor ...
- Governing California - Making Sense of Our State of Disarray
- Tyche Hendricks (Jan '10) is the editor for KQED Public Radio's The California Report. This project is designed to demistify the chaos that is governance in California.
- Poynter Institute Showcases KDMC Fellows Using Timelines with Dippity
- Two KDMC fellows were quoted in a Poynter article about creating interactive timelines using Dipity. Craig Gima (Jan'10), assistant city editor and reporter at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, produced a timeline ...
- Sandwiches Made with Love. YEAH BABY!
- Ernie Hassan has made 1 1/2 pound made-to-order sandwiches at his market in Metro Detroit for the past 50 years. Many come for the sandwiches you have to unhinge your ...
- A 360 Degree View on Panorama Photos
- A KDMC-talk listerve member asked for suggestions about how to make panorama graphics. A few great ideas worth noting were shared. KDMC Talkers were pointed to Zach Wise's Introduction to ...
- Where is Huguette Clark?
- Huguette Clark is the daughter of William Andrews Clark, a copper baron who was almost as rich as Rockerfeller. The 103-year-old heiress owns many estates, but doesn't live in any ...
- Cow Power Raising a Stink in Central California
- Some Central Valley dairy farmers use dairy digesters to turn cow manure to electricity. Unfortunately, this process has come under fire for creating pollution through large concentrations of methane gas. ...
- Timeline Tools in the Newsroom
- Last week the KDMC-talk listserv had a lively discussion about timeline tools like Dipity, Timeglider and Capzules. Wendy Norris (Jan '10) an investigative reporter for the Western Citizen created the ...
- $10K Multimedia Treasure Hunt
- Ben Garvin (Jul '08) brought a 59-year-old tradition into the 21st century. The St. Paul Press hides a medallion worth 10K to the finder during the Winter Carnival. This year ...
- Art as Public Work
- Fresh from the January '10 workshop, Glenn Burkins produced his first multimedia package about an art competition for public works employees in Charlotte and Mecklenburg City, North Carolina.
- Dancing Machine
- Josh Levoir spends 9 hours, ten dollars of quarters and 9,000 calories during a day of dancing at a video arcade. Eric Seals (May '08) shot a video that shows ...
- 48 Hours at the Times Union Center
- Christen Gowan (July '09) produced a whimiscal video piece that reveals the many faces, and floors, of Albany, New York's Times Union Center. See how the center can host basketball, ...
- A Look at the new iPad
- Ryan Kim (Jan '10) shared his first impressions of Apple's iPad notebook computer with a narrated video tour of the device.
- Putting Siena College Basketball on the Map
- Christen Gowan (July 09) made an interactive Flash map to track the Siena Saints college basketball team as they compete around the country. The map accompanied a special Sunday section ...
- High Schoolers Explore Race In Response to the Obama Presidency
- 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 ...
- KDMC Fellows Win a National Emmy
- 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 ...
- Assignment Detroit to Chronicle the Fall and Rise of an All-American City
- 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 ...
- July '09 Alumna is part of an Award Winning Online Journal
- 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 ...
- Alumni Toast Barbie's 50th Birthday with a Multimedia Package
- Barbie's not just a doll, she's an icon.Penelope Carrington, May 08 Knight multimedia workshop alumna, along with Paul Kyber, a February 09 alumnus, both of The Richmond Times-Dispatch, created a ...
- Jan '09 Alum Produces Multimedia Inauguration Blog Posts
- Heather Charles, Knight multimedia workshop alumna and photojournalist for the The Indianapolis Star, shared some blog posts with photo galleries, a slide show and map mashup documenting her trip from ...
- USC News Entrepreneurs' Boot Camp
- The Knight Digital Media Center in partnership with USC Annenberg School for Communication, the Center for Communication Leadership and the Online Journalism Review is accepting applications for its special News ...
