As a journalism student I am very pleased to attend to Online Journalism which is one of the most important course units in my field.
Online journalism, is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet, as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast.
It creates an opportunity for niche audiences, allowing people to have more options as to what to view and read.
Online journalism opens up new ways of story telling; through the technical components of the new medium, digital journalists can provide a variety of media, such as audio, video, and digital photography.
During the first lecture led by Mr. Antonio kisembo, we were introduced to what is online journalism and that it is as well known as digital journalism.
He gave us the definition of online journalism, he showed us how to open ablog accounts exposing us to different websites such as WordPress and Google blogger plus computer languages like HTTP, hph, java and he told us to join online easy Class.
Second lecture.
Mr. Antonio kisembo attending to students during a second lecture.
Mr. Kisembo put more light on the steps of creating a blogger since some students seemed not to had completely understood during the first lecture.
He introduced new things about blogger creation, such included; front and back end, creating a domain name and how to share a link of your blog for people to view your publications.
leactured about Elements of good multimedia storytelling, that Multimedia stories take advantage of the strengths of each medium:
~ Video to show action (teens skateboarding, high school wrestling, a chef cooking), capture strong quotes (witnesses at an accident site, a cancer survivor talking about her ordeal) or take viewers somewhere they wouldn’t have access to (behind the scenes at a concert) or places they would want to visit (a Disneyland ride, the World Cup).
~ Photos to capture strong emotion or a key moment in time (a mother reunites with a long lost child, someone talks about losing their home). Pictures still are often worth a thousand words.
~Audio to capture compelling quotes (a veteran talking about the battlefield, a mother talking about a child) or telling “ambient” sound (the din in a crowded restaurant, music, stadium cheers, construction noise, gunfire).
~Graphics to show complicated processes (how a bill moves through Congress, how a new surgery works) or complex data (employment figures, population percentages in cities) in an easy-to-understand format.
A selfie taken during the second lecture.
