Saturday, October 21, 2006

Newspaper Video Journalism (Part V)

It's encouraging to know that so many people have been following my series on the video journalism initiative at the Dallas Morning News. I'll admit its also fun to check the logs and see who is linking to this blog. I'm honored that fellow educators Mindy McAdams, Doug Fisher and Bryan Murley are keeping up with this project and writing some thought-provoking commentary as well.

Since my last post was on August 3rd (Yikes!), I had a few other items on my plate. Aside from the usual stressors educators face, my department is going up for AEJMC re-acreditation. (We were first accredited in 2001.) The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication puts its stamp of approval on J-School programs through its accrediting body, the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, otherwise known as the ACEJMC. The Self Study is finished and now we prepare for the site visit at the end of October. The entire process is certainly worth the effort, but anyone who has ever gone through this process knows how difficult it can be.

As for today, I'm in Columbia, S.C., for the Convergence Media Conference with my colleague Kenneth Pybus. We are presenting a paper detailing the efforts of the ACU student media's exploration into online video journalism. Here are the direct links for your viewing pleasure.
Today's post features a video documenting Dallas Morning News photojournalist Rick Gershon shooting the third day of a roller coaster ride-a-thon at Six Flags over Texas. You might remember him as the 2004 College Photographer of the Year. In the video you get to see Rick work, but you also get to hear about the the DMN philosophy of video journalism.









QuickTime MPEG-4 (m4v) / 4:10 / 20 MB / Get QuickTime
To help demonstrate the excellent quality of the DMN online video, I've listed links to all the video coverage of the ride-a-thon from other media. I'll let you be the judge and tell me what you think.

Rick Gerson
The Dallas Morning News
Aaron Chimbel
WFAA Mojo (Mobile Journalist
Darrell Byres
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
While I'm linking to all these videos I might as well throw in a few more for good measure. Below is a short list of some of my favorite DMN videos.
Posted by ACU Video at 12:20 AM

2 comments:

Mindy McAdams said...

That's a great video, Cade (yours, I mean). I'm going to show it to my students. And I'm going to e-mail it to our two photo professors and suggest that they show it to THEIR students too.

10:49 AM
Jessica said...

Cool that you and Kenneth got the convergence paper together! Hope it generated some good conversation at the conference.

8:19 PM

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