Jun
15
My ego took a hit. Last year I was in the B corral. #peachtreeroadrace
Andrew C. Nelson
Multimedia Reporter.
Jun
11
“The old adage is true—writing is rewriting. But it takes a kind of courage to confront your own awfulness (and you will be awful) and realize that, if you sleep on it, you can come back and bang at the thing some more, and it will be less awful. And then you sleep again, and bang even more, and you have something middling. Then you sleep some more, and bang, and you get something that is actually coherent. Hopefully when you are done you have a piece that reasonably approximates the music in your head. And some day, having done that for years, perhaps you will get something that is even better than the music in your head. Becoming a better writer means becoming a re-writer. But that first phase is so awful that most people don’t want any part.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)
So very true.
(via theatlantic)
Jun
7
A Friday ritual.
May
26
The Ultimate Tweet
Typing 140 characters and adding a link or photo is so 2010.
Too many news organizations merely toss web or broadcast content in a tweet.
Here’s an example of content created on mobile for mobile.
Great how-to. I took advantage of this at an ordination at a Catholic church.
I looked for opportunities when photos could tell the story. I shot three photos: of the candidates entering the church, when they prostrate themselves during the service and lastly, as they greeted family, friends and loved ones after the service. Beginning, middle and endI shot with the Camera+ app, editing them on the fly. I wrote out a script and recorded it using the Soundcloud app sitting in my car in the parking garage, uploaded it and put it out on social media.
Here’s my first attempt. Thanks for the tip.
May
24
ONA Issues: Three great Tumblrs: Reporthers, Journos of Color, and Flip the News
Here are three great Tumblrs that focus on women and people of color in the media that we started following this week:
- Reporthers features Q & As with “editors, producers, reporters and other cool people who have something to do with journalism and nonfiction storytelling.” Founder Jessica…
Good ways to expand one’s horizons. Well done to the creative creators.
Civilization is
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry.The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. — Will Durant
My writing during these past 19 years has been all about the events on the banks of civilization. I am pleased I’ve been able to those stories in newspapers.
May
22
Audio Slideshow: L'Arche Atlanta
I knew from the get go I wanted to produce a multimedia story about Decatur’s L’Arche community. The people and the community they are establishing seemed ripe for an enriching visual and audio story-telling experience, in addition to print.
The scene setting that opened the piece was done by standing in the kitchen as the two residents started to cook dinner. I knew when I heard the pasta snap that could be the opening.
The sound was recorded on my iPhone.
And here’s the story that ran in the newspaper.
May
19
Go here to run along the ‘Hooch in #Atlanta. Maybe the only flat trail around here.
May
17
My red roses a’bloomin’
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