Covering 2 big stories this week
The news in Syracuse this week has been overwhelmed by two very big, late-breaking stories. First, on Monday, a fatal crash along Route 31. Then, Thursday, a shooting at an AT&T store in Rome. These two stories have consumed much of my time during the last four days, and so I wanted to save links to them here for posterity.
Into this posting I’ve embedded a 9WSYR.com Video Report that I arranged and edited using video content shot by a NewsChannel 9 team sent to cover of the shooting. It tells the story of the moments immediately following the shots through statements by two witnesses. It is a web-only video that scored hundreds of views within hours of being posted.
Due in large part to these two big stories, I’m also proud to say we’ve seen amazing amounts of traffic on 9WSYR.com recently.
Gen Lap | Lincoln City, OR
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Two people, mother and son, share with us three different views on text messaging. One likes it; one doesn’t, and then changes their mind. Watch this Gen Lap installment and try to figure out, who is lapping whom?
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This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.
On the Air with Roger Robertson
Andrew and I were on live radio this morning with Roger Robertson at KBCH talking about how technology is changing teenage lives in Lincoln City. Rather than type more, check out our 1:40 summary video, or if you have the time, listen to the whole broadcast.
Our two minute summary:
Or listen to the full radio broadcast below
SCPS Hiring Commercial
Schine Student Centers and Programming Services is a 3 tiered department that runs Syracuse University’s Schine and Goldstein Student Centers and the Skybarn Events Center. This hiring commercial, produced for SCPS’s Employee Advisory Council, is the first recruitment tool requested by that body.
I have also created a training video for the SCPS program, that video is too long for the web and but is available by request.
How is the election important to the country?
This video from the Interactive Communication’s Class during Election Day 2008 captures the thoughts of Syracuse locals outside their polling places. Originally hosted by Syracuse.com, this video was part of a partnership between the Newhouse School and the Syracuse Post Standard’s website team.
Political Cartoons
Frank Cammuso of the Post Standard talks to me for NCC News about his work, the candidates, and the types of political satire and how they work.
Democrats go Door to Door
With 17 days remaining before the 2008 elections, the Citizen Action Network of Central New York went door to door about the issue that matters to them: healthcare. The group of Democrats started at the local library with a rally and keynote speech by then-congressional-candidate Dan Maffei. (Maffei was later elected.) After the rally, the group went door to door and found their neighbors open and agreeable to their political points.
These stories were part of team coverage in both the Syracuse University NCC newscast and on the “Newshouse” website. They were balanced by other journalists’ coverage of the republican campaigns.
There are two versions of this story to demonstrate the difference between a standard reporter package that would air on television, and the multimedia version that is better suited to the internet user.
I call the second version a “nat [natural] package.” (more…)
Farm Economy
During the early Spring of 2008, the ground in Central New York had just thawed enough to let farmer Daren Maum, owner of Salvere Farm, begin to till his fields. Salvere Farms is unique among CNY agriculture, because before he plants a single seed, Maum has already sold his entire harvest. It is called consumer supported agriculture, or CSA.
Each season Maum sells shares, or percentages, of his crops that he delivers weekly to his customers at three pickup locations around the area. By staying small and selling directly to the consumers, Maum manages to stand out in another way: he cuts costs of fuel for running the farm and making deliveries. His customers also get away without a grocery store?s markup. All this meant that in Spring 2008, Salvere farm was one of the only farms in the area to not be raising their prices.
Homecoming Showcase (Soundslides)
This video was produced with a team for a class called ICC 300, or Interactive Communications Core 300. My tasks included audio interviewing and editing, and some photography.
Once each semester the largest club on Syracuse University campus, Danceworks, organizes a showcase. At the final rehearsal for the fall showcase, some teams were still frantically practicing in the hallways outside the auditorium while others confidently showed off to the other performers.
Danceworks uses their fall showcase to recruit new dancers to join for the even larger spring show. The organizers will be the first to tell you, it is all a lot of work.
This slideshow was produced with a group of 3 other students for an Interactive Communications course at the Newhouse school.
My First Package Ever
Accompanying a KVOA reporter and photographer team in summer 2006, I met with Doctor Tom Swetnam at the University of Arizona. Swetnam had been studying the effects and instances of wildfires in the southwest and had arrived at some interesting conclusions. Using my handheld camcorder, I paralleled the interview and production of the KVOA team to write and edit my first news package ever.
What do you think of Barack Obama’s victory?
This video from the Interactive Communication’s Class during Election Day 2008 shows the reactions of some local African Americans to the election of Barack Obama. Originally hosted by Syracuse.com, this video was part of a partnership between the Newhouse School and the Syracuse Post Standard’s website team.
