HAM420 Convergent Journalism

Choose a multimedia story—you may use one of the ones listed below or choose your own.

Explore the story and then consider the following:

• How well does the site use navigation?
• How effectively is it designed?
• How effectively does it use photos, graphics, broadcast and interactive elements? List the elements that are present.
• How well are the stories written/presented/packaged?
• What did you love about it? Hate about it? Why?

Australian

Gangland
http://www.theage.com.au/gangland/multimedia/Index/index.html

Afghanistan: The Violent Frontier
http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/afghanistan/main.html

The Big Arctic Melt
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/arctic/index.html

Australia says sorry
http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2008/national/australia-says-sorry/main.html

The Rum Rebellion
http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2008/rumrebellion/main.html

Bryce’s Guide to Paris
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,22627152-11212,00.html

International

Beijing Beat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/beijingbeat/index.html?hpid=multimedia2&hpv=national

History of Las Vegas
http://www.lasvegassun.com/history/

Uprooted
http://www.mercurynewsphoto.com/flicks/

Habeas Project
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/mm/spring08/habeasproject/

Mauro’s Shift
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/mm/spring08/sfcabs/

Reading
User feedback drives five principles for multimedia news on the Web
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050915schumacher/

Basic training in Flash
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/071018niles/

Multimedia Storytelling
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/reporting/starttofinish/