The "Building Up Troy" series, which looked at a recent increase in development within the city, spanned three days and included multimedia components like photos, video and a map mashup. The goal of this project was to take a closer look at multiple separate projects, highlighting reasons for the increased developments and the possible effects on the surrounding neighborhoods and the City of Troy.
Last year I received a free copy of the The Digital Journalist’s Handbook by Mark S. Luckie through a Twitter contest (I was the first to respond with the meaning of HTML — hypertext markup language FTW). It’s a great guide for student journalists or those who are interested in branching out into new mediums like audio, video, programming and Flash. It also has some good information on social media, blogging, social media optimization — basically a crash course for digital journalists. The book is more informational than instructional, meaning you won’t walk away knowing exactly how to write a program to analyze data or be able to make an infographic in Flash. In actuality, a book that could provide those results would have to be about 10 textbooks in one, but the Digital Journalist’s Handbook is a good primer and a great launching off point, providing some ideas...
UPDATE – Both videos now uploaded. Photos taken at the scene of a massive structure fire at the R.K. Freedman & Sons warehouse on Tibbits Avenue in Green Island. Check back for additional videos from the scene. A video from the Troy Record that I made with the help of photographer Jeff Couch is also embedded below.
I had the chance Thursday to interview John McLoughlin, reporter and managing editor at WTEN, for an article I wrote about his resigning from the network after 39 years. It's not very often I have someone with his reputation and experience on the phone at full attention, so I took the opportunity to ask him about his career and the journalism industry. Below are some of the quotes that didn't make it in the story I wrote for The Record.
