About Jeremy Rue
**RUE, JEREMY** is a multimedia training instructor for the Knight Digital Media Center located at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches Flash and other programs for a series of week-long multimedia training workshops for professional working journalists through a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Rue previously worked as a multimedia journalist for the Oakland Tribune, where he helped produced "Not Just a Number," an immersive interactive project that humanized the historically high 2006 homicide rate in Oakland. The project won Online News Association's Knight Award for Public Service in 2007. Rue also previously worked with a Carnegie-Knight funded venture called News Initiative, building interactive multimedia journalistic pieces on religion and private life. Rue has also worked as a photojournalist for a number of publications, including The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee and the Duluth News-Tribune in Minnesota. He also worked as a reporter for the Selma (Calif.) Enterprise, where he covered city government, courts and crime. Rue is the recipient of the 2007 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for his photo documentary work on migrant farm workers in the California Central Valley. He is an expert with Adobe Flash/ActionScript, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/AJAX, Unix, PHP and a variety of other scripting languages.
Writing
Content on this site written by Jeremy Rue (includes contributory writing):
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Tutorials
- Video Cameras
Published Mar 19, 2009
- Choosing the right video camera gear can be difficult since the market is flooded with an abundance of choices. If you break down the elements each camera has to offer, ...
- Photo Cameras
Published Mar 19, 2009
- There are three basic camera types: Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, advanced point-and-shoot cameras, and point-and-shoot cameras. Each camera type comes with various prices points and advantages. This tutorial includes a ...
- Canon Rebel Camera
Published Mar 19, 2009
- The Canon Rebel family of cameras is the first level of SLRs the company makes. They generally run between $600 to $1,000 depending on the kit options and accessories. The ...
- 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 ...
- Audacity
Published Dec 3, 2008
- Audacity is a free, lightweight, sound-editing program that works in PC, Mac OS X, and Linux. It is an easy way to start editing audio if there is little or ...
- Building Flash Templates
Published Dec 2, 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 ...
- Photoshop
Published Nov 13, 2008
- Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for working with digital images of any kind. This tutorial will take you through the entry-level steps of using the program to open, crop, ...
- Canon VIXIA HF10
Published Aug 12, 2008
- This tutorial will cover the basic use of the Canon VIXIA HF10 video camcorder, as used in a journalistic application. This tutorial is written specifically for the students at the ...
- 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 ...
- Audio Recorders
Published Dec 16, 2007
- This tutorial covers some of the basics in portable digital audio recorder devices, and their use in a journalistic capacity. There are several factors to consider when purchasing a digial ...
- Soundslides
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 Sep 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 ...
- Flash Tutorial
Published May 16, 2007
- Adobe Flash is a powerful vector-based animation tool that has become the de facto standard for multimedia on the Internet because it allows authors to create online presentations with minimum ...
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Blog Posts
- J-Lab announces Knight Batten Award
- 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.The awards are aimed at journalism ...
- Mobile Coupons Show Promise
- It appears the few folks who have tried mobile coupons have shown lots of promise.Planet Funk, a fashion retailer with stores in California, Texas and Colorado, sent out a series ...
- Convenience in News Delievery
- Several studies have shown that an overwhelming percentage of people who typically eat at fast food restaurants do so not because of food taste, but out of convenience. It's easy, ...
- May '08 alum showcases inauguration videos
- Penelope Carrington, Knight multimedia workshop alumna and a multimedia reporter for the The Richmond Times-Dispatch, shared with us some videos she produced for her paper during the recent inauguration ceremonies.Check ...
- NPR iPhone app not made by NPR
- There is an application available for iPhones that lets you listen to content from members stations of National Public Radio.It's called NPR Mobile, and it's a very slick app. It ...
- May '08 Alum Produces Video
- Eric Seals of the Detroit Free Press produced this fantastic video on local coach Courtney Hawkins of Flint (Mich) Beecher High School.News Videographer Angela Grant also had high praise in ...
- Workshop Application Now Open
- We are now accepting applications for our free multimedia and technology training workshops. These fellowships are geared toward mid-career journalists seeking to advance their skills in the new media realm. ...
- Unity conference is a success
- The Knight Digital Media Center at Berkeley let out a giant sigh of relief after a successful workshop at the 2008 Unity Convention. Despite having the participants use their own ...
- Live Blogging News Leadership 3.0
- Our partners down in Los Angeles at the USC Knight Digtial Media Center are hosting a News Leadership 3.0 conference and they have Michele McLellan live blogging the sessions through ...
- Twittering the news: DOs and DON'Ts
- Among the horde of Web 2.0 sites popping up each day, it seems the newest craze to emerge online is the Twitter social network. Very suddenly we are getting lots ...
- Multimedia Workshop Deadline Extended
- The deadline for the May 2008 multimedia workshop has been extended by a week. The new deadline is now April 11, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. Remember our system allows you ...
- Technology Workshop Now Open
- We are pleased to announce our newest addition of two technology training workshops slated for March and April. The March workshop, which is geared for editors, will focus on database-driven ...
- New Web Site Launched
- We have officially launched our new Web design! This new site works just like the old one, and we have preserved all of the information including the tutorials and applications. ...
- January Webcast Schedule Posted
- Our January workshop is under way and the live webcast schedule from all of our speakers can be viewed during the times posted below right here. Even though these webcasts ...
- December Webcast Schedule Posted
- Next week we will be holding our last Multimedia Workshop for 2007. It has been a great year, and we are in the midst of gearing up for next year's ...
- December and January Workshops Closed
- The deadlines have been reached and the candidates have been selected for the December and January workshops. Everyone who has applied should have been notified by now. Let us just ...
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Presentations
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Forum Posts
- eliminating extrenuous sound on levalier mic in soundtrack pro
- Removing sporadic noise from an audio track is really tough to achieve in any audio editing program. The best thing to do is to remove it with some creative editing; by eliminating the parts of the sound with the noise altogether. If the noise is more of a constant sound, ...
- starter kit
- We just bought a Zoom H2 audio recorder and so far it has been extremely high quality. http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1916 The thing is really small and records up to four channels of surround sound audio. At first that seemed like overkill for journalistic applications, and for the most part it is. But ...
- Workshop manuals
- What are you looking for in a tutorial? I'm about to post an Advanced Flash tutorial. We've also played with the idea of an Audacity tutorial in a few months. Any requests?
- Future workshop suggestions???
- 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 here at Knight, or the people accepted to the program, that alumni could offer?
- Workshop manuals
- I wrote up a manual for a class I'm teaching, and I found it actually doesn't work as good as I thought it would. People were half-following the manual, half-paying attention to me. Also, it seemed more of a distraction than an aid. Some were trying to follow along the ...
- Audacity
- We debate back-and-fourth about this quite often. Do we teach the version which is a little buggy and not quite as powerful but FREE, or do we teach the more powerful vetted version which comes with backing and support, but for an enormous costs for individuals and small newsrooms. I ...
- Wall Street Journal looks to Facebook
- I agree, there are certainly privacy/ethical issues that are being re-evaluated in the journalism industry. There's no "right" answer, just different levels of values and principles. I liken it to overhearing a conversation in a cafe, or in a busy store. You "hear" the gossip on Facebook, but does that ...
- starter kit
- Yes, you can improve the Olympus sound quality slightly. It won't match the quality of high-end recorders, but using a high quality microphone is one method to dramatically improve the sound. This analogy is a good way to think about it: The microphone of audio recorder is like the lens ...
- Wall Street Journal looks to Facebook
- Facebook is no longer just a "toy," but a way of communication. via AP: NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal has just accepted Facebook's request to be online friends. Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web ...
- starter kit
- Those M-Audio's sound incredible. The quality is phenomenal. However, you're right about the battery life. During the January workshop I mentioned the M-Audio recorders and people seemed to know about the USB battery "hack" as well. The one to watch out for is the new Zoom H2 recorders because they ...
- Workshop manuals
- We have received several comments about putting together a newsroom manual for multimedia based on our tutorials and the workshop components. I was wondering, what types of things would people in newsrooms find valuable in such a manual/guide? Our tutorials are so specific to the workshops we hold and the ...
