Picture’s worth a thousand words

Photo illustration by Maizy Sandifer

Pictured: Mahir Khan and Laura Dresser

Hitting the streets

Wednesday morning: The lab is pretty empty because most of the students are out reporting stories. The web site is shaping up nicely with photos and new content. — YW

Quiet time

The students are at dinner, and I’m posting photos on the website. The profiles will come soon, and I’ll post the blog entries after dinner. It has been a good day. A little rough, technologically speaking, but then, what else is new? Tonight will finish up blogs and profiles, and start talking about story assignments. — YW

Yeoww!

Problems with the blog on the first day! But we are trying to figure out. Getting 24 people on the software at one time is problematic.  — Yvette Walker

First day of class

Summer Media Workshop has officially begun. It’s Tuesday, July 8, and broadcast professor Jack Hodgson began the program with a keynote speech about convergence. MNW coach Yvette Walker assisted. The 24 students in this class then (after lunch) met at Tate Hall and learned about broadcast video storytelling, courtesy of Prof. Hodgson. The students then interviewed each other for profiles that will be posted on this blog.

The students also will continue to add to the class blog, writing about their experiences this week.

Welcome to class!

Welcome to the Multimedia Newswriting class at Summer Media Workshop! In this class, you will learn about three different types of writing: print, online and broadcast. See the related blog post for the class description, but know you’ll have a great time! The workshop is located on the campus of The University of Missouri (see photo below).

Podcasts

Note the new page we’ve added — Podcasts. Some of the students have rewritten their stories into more broadcast style, for your downloading pleasure. — Yvette Walker

Quiet and frustration

Stories due, sources not returning phone calls or e-mails, and writer’s block. Such is a Wednesday morning in the Multimedia News Writing Class. One more day to go before awards, hugs and tears. — Yvette Walker

Gallery of emotion

David Rees, head of photojournalism at MU, showed a stirring slideshow of Picture of the Year 2007 entrants. Helen Yanta and Liz Vance wrote about it here. Read more about the Picture of the Year competition, with a list of winners, a gallery of photos and complete description here. – Yvette Walker

Heat Index

Whenever a forecast reads, “… feels like 96 …” you know it’s hot. Here on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., that’s what we’ve got. Here it is, 6:05 p.m. and it feels like 96. Whew.

Just so you know. It’s HOT.

Whenever I visit the campus, usually in July, I remember what hot feels like. But the students are troopers, and they are out and about, reporting and writing. Keep hydrated, folks. – Yvette Walker