About Paul Grabowicz
Paul Grabowicz is Senior Lecturer, Associate Dean and Director of the New Media Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing and video game storytelling.
He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California, and has written extensively about issues in online journalism and digital technology.
A professional journalist for more than 25 years, he spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune. He also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a Web site for the paper (it was rejected).
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, he began his journalism career in 1973 working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay Guardian. He has written for publications such as the Washington Post, Esquire magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday.
In 1995 he began setting up the New Media Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. He also was the driving force in creating the Knight Digital Media Center at the school.
Writing
Content on this site written by Paul Grabowicz (includes contributory writing):
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Tutorials
- Picking the Right Media for Reporting a Story
Published Aug 23, 2009
- How do you decide whether to take a video camera, a photo camera, an audio recorder or just a good old reporter's notebook on a story?This tutorial gives you some ...
- The Transformation to Digital Journalism
Published Jan 30, 2009
- This is an overview of the transformation to digital journalism that many news organizations and individual journalists are undertaking. This guide grew out of the opening presentations for the Knight ...
- Dreamweaver
Published May 16, 2007
- Dreamweaver is a Web page design program that lets you type text and add media elements directly into a page, much as you would with a word processing program like ...
- Digital Still Cameras
Published May 16, 2007
- There are two basic kinds of digital cameras: Digital SLR (single lens reflex) and non-SLR. Digital SLRs are generally more expensive and more accurate than non-SLR cameras, and include more ...
- Soundtrack Pro
Published May 16, 2007
- Soundtrack Pro is an audio editing program designed to work in concert with the Final Cut Pro video editing program. It can be used for more fine tuning of audio ...
- Minidisc Audio Recorders
Published May 16, 2007
- A minidisc recorder is a digital audio recording device that saves audio onto a minidisc. Each minidisc holds up to about 80 minutes of recorded audio.
- Compact Flash Audio Recorders
Published May 16, 2007
- A compact flash audio recorder is a digital audio recording device that saves audio onto a compact flash card - the same kind of card used with a digital photo ...
- Final Cut Pro
Published May 16, 2007
- Final Cut Pro is a very sophisticated video editing program made by Apple. It is the editing software of choice for multimedia journalists using Apple computers, and is comparable to ...
- iMovie
Published May 16, 2007
- iMovie is a simple, easy to use video editing program that comes free with the Apple operating system (it has no Windows PC version). Despite its simplicity, iMovie offers many ...
- Video Techniques
Published May 16, 2007
- People invariably make the same sets of mistakes when they first start shooting video: Trees or telephone poles sticking out of the back of someone's head; interview subjects who are ...
- Sony PD 150/170 Video Camera Accessories
Published May 16, 2007
- This tutorial covers accessories related to the Sony DSR-PD170 or DSR-PD150 video camcorder. There are several accessories you should have with your camera to improve the quality of the video ...
- Sony PD 150/170 Video Cameras
Published May 16, 2007
- This tutorial covers usage of the Sony DSR-PD170 or DSR-PD150 video camcorder. It is also an overview of video camera principles and hardware.
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Blog Posts
- Is Twitter Journalism?
- Eye-witness postings on the Mumbai attacks to Twitter have provoked a debate over whether Twitter is a form of journalism and news. For two views, see Mathew Ingram (pro) and ...
- NAA Report on Online Video
- The Newspaper Association of America has a really good report on how newspapers are and should be using online video. Lots of interesting data and examples, advice on how to ...
- Interactive Map on Dangerous Intersections
- 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 ...
- Online Startups by Former Newspaper Staffers
- 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 ...
- Video Vs Photo Slideshow
- A lot of news organizations are debating whether it's better to shoot lots of video for their web sites or focus instead on using a camera and audio recorder to ...
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Presentations
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