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Archive for September, 2008

26 Sep

Army publishes Record of Decision for growth & force realignment

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — The Department of the Army announced Sept. 12 the availability of the record of decision (ROD) for growing and realigning the Army’s force structure to support operations in the Pacific Theater.
This notice from my day job is a test to see how quickly I can move things from CORE to [...]

23 Sep

Audio newsgathering kit

From Teaching Online Journalism: The best first step for a print reporter toward multimedia is audio. You already know how to conduct an interview, so you
’re more than halfway there. Now all you need is some decent audio gathering gear and Audacity, a free audio editor that works on both Windows and Macs.
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20 Sep

Lede of the century

Hey, Private, can you write?
I rarely pick up Esquire any more, but when I saw the 75th anniversary edition at the local Troop Store (Note to magazine distributor: AIT students? Esquire?) I became curious to see what six-figures-a-year journalists did to earn their pay.
Speculate, mainly, based on the profiles I’ve read so far.  They also [...]

18 Sep

Most people get news from TV and papers, but they’re getting OLD

Something to consider:
*The Pew Research Center recently published a new report, “Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources,” with some insights into the nature of today’s news audience.
More than 50 percent get news from TV and newspapers only, but they tend to be older and poorer than people who blend in New Media [...]

15 Sep

Photo File: Emphasis

Pentagon 9/11 Memorial Healing Field, originally uploaded by soldiersmediacenter.
Evocative photo. Note how the man at the focal point of the photo is actually a small part of the image, but because he breaks the pattern, he draws the eye.
Too bad we don’t know who he is or why he’s walking alone. Anyone ask him what [...]

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