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Nashville Crew Spends the Day at Roush Fenway for NASCAR
Can you feel it? A new NASCAR season is right around the corner. I can’t tell you how excited I am for it. With the new season come new videos involving NASCAR super stars and the companies that sponsor them. Thanks to the new season and NASCAR Media Group I got to spend the day […]
Read More →Climbing “The Mountain”
Chalmer Sinkey, news photographer for Fox Movietone News’ Seattle bureau writes about ascending Mt. Rainier with a group of mountaineers for a story about the Nisqually Glacier back in 1935. Below is an excerpt of his story about climbing and shooting on what Puget Sounders call simply, “the Mountain.” Sinkey of course wasn’t exactly in […]
Read More →How mobile journalism makes breaking news better
Picture the scene –you’re cruising Facebook and notice a post about four manatees beached just off the campus of Jacksonville University in Florida. Matt Augustine, of radio station WOKV, says he was the first member of Jacksonville’s media on scene for the story and was there a good hour or so before any of the other outlets showed up. “That day, I did just about everything, except for write the scripts to my final on-air stories, on my smartphone,” Augustine said. The ability to publish instantly through social media made a huge difference to Augustine. “I used Facebook and Twitter almost immediately after I arrived on scene to blast out what I initially found out from the people there,” he said. “I tweeted and Facebook-ed pictures and updates constantly, giving listeners a play-by-play of what was going on as the wildlife officials and volunteers lifted the manatees on to special stretchers, and then began the long process of carrying the 1200-pound animals back into the river.” Augustine says he thinks some of the volunteers showed up because of what they saw on Facebook. “I took video of volunteers carrying one of the manatees back into the St. Johns River and […]
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