Photojournalism From A Student’s Eye

From the LA Times, found through Interactive Narratives.

I am sitting in the airport in Taipei, Taiwan, halfway there to beginning my journey in Bali, Indonesia. I have been meaning to update more often, with info on where I am going and what I will be doing, but found myself too busy catching old friends one last time and packing (it has been only two weeks since I left the Register).

Hopefully I will have some photos to post once I get settled at the Green School, but until then, I will be checking out the newly re-launched Interactive Narratives and I suggest you do too!

Oh and, while you are at it, check out the video done by Shaminder Dulai that is displayed on the top of the photo below. It is one of the video pieces he is working on while a summer fellow at Poynter.

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This is my first attempt at using the Vuvox Collage app. I thought it might be a good idea to create something for the Drake basketball team, considering the great season they have been having. At first, I thought that using the collage would allow me to put all the galleries into one spot, letting viewers go back to past games and go through all of the galleries all over again. After talking with just about everyone I could (that I can reach on IM) I suddenly had all sorts of input on possible content to add. Obviously that content is not there yet, I haven’t even really proposed this to my editors, just built it first so that they could see it visually.

I am hoping to add game summaries for each game, audio interviews from the coach and key players on important games, videos as the Register produces them, and possibly a Vuvox express presentation that is linked to a rss feed of user submitted Drake basketball photos.

Any thoughts? Things I should add? Take out? It is pretty narrow within the confines of my blog template, but I chose to embed this here so that when I show my editors the presentation, it is clear that it can be embedded and integrated into our paper’s template easily.

After some initial problems with the feeds from the Register, I was able to create this simple slideshow of the latest Register galleries, with links to the gallery above each associated photo. I also put this on my facebook page using the Vuvox PhotoSlide facebook application. I am still trying to find a way to either, (a) add the PhotoSlide app to the DM Register facebook product page or, ideally (b) create a facebook app that uses the PhotoSlide app and would feature our gallery slideshow that could be added to our page as well as added by anyone else to their profile pages.