April 16th, 2013
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*Updated schedule with additional panel, ”Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web,” featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times) 

DIGITAL STORYTELLING: A SYMPOSIUM

THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Free and open to the public; no reservation required.  For more information, visit http://bit.ly/ZRZBms or contact piersonp@uci.edu.

Featuring:  

Editors from The Atavist, Byliner, LA Review of Books, Longform, Noir, and Matter; journalists Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine), Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland, Mike Sager (Esquire), Angilee Shah, and Kurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times); and UCI faculty Jonathan Alexander,  Carol Burke, Miles Corwin, Erika Hayasaki, Kavita Philip, Barry Siegel, and Amy Wilentz.

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Schedule of Events:

Welcome Message: Amy Wilentz (UCI English and Literary Journalism)

11-12:30   ”The Future of Digital Publishing”: A Roundtable 

Humanities Instructional Building 135

Featuring:

Tom Lutz, Founder and Editor, LA Review of Books; Professor, UC  Riverside Department of Creative Writing

Angilee Shah, Social Media Manager at Public Radio International, consulting editor to the Journal of Asian Studies and co-editor of Chinese  Characters (UCPress, 2012)

Nancie Clare, Founder and Editor of Noir Magazine  (noirmagazine.tumblr.com)

Mike Sager, Writer-at-Large for Esquire and founder of digital publishing imprint The Sager Group (www.thesagergroup.net)

12:30-1:30 PM   Master Class on Digital Narratives, Hosted by The Atavist 

Humanities Gateway Building 1010

Gray Beltran, Multimedia Producer and Community Editor, The Atavist

1:30-2:30   Lunch Reception and Display of Digital Narrative Projects Humanities Gateway 1010

2:30-3:30   Sports and Pop Culture Narrative, and the Web

Featuring Jay Caspian Kang (Grantland) andhKurt Streeter (Los Angeles Times) Humanities Gateway 1030

3:30-4:30 PM    Live Podcast Interview by Longform of Vanessa Grigoriadis (Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine)

*Interview will be conducted in person, on-site*

Interviewer: Max Linsky of Longform.org

Humanities Gateway 1030

4:00-5:00 PM    Coffee Reception and Display of Digital Narratives Humanities Gateway 1010

5:00-6:30 PM “Storytelling, Narrative, and Writing in the Digital Age,”  A Panel Discussion

Humanities Gateway 1030 

Featuring:

Charles Homans, Editor, The Atavist

Jim Giles, Editor, Matter

Aaron Lammer, Editor, Longform

Mark Bryant, Editor-in-Chief of Byliner.com

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EVENT DETAILS:

APRIL 18, 2013

11 A.M.-6:30 P.M.

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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC—ALL WELCOME

For more information on Digital Storytelling: A Symposium or to attend the event please contact the Assistant Director of Literary Journalism, Patricia Pierson, piersonp@uci.edu, or Assistant Professor of Literary Journalism Erika Hayasaki ehayasak@uci.edu.

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October 8th, 2012
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Ten lessons for digital journalists from #ONA12 | Media news | Journalism.co.uk

rwashburn:

The Online News Association’s annual conference took place at the end of last week and over the weekend in San Francisco.

Journalism.co.uk has been trawling through the thousands of tweets, blog posts, audio and video to bring you 10 lessons from #ONA12.

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September 20th, 2012
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Zoom cleofuckingpatra: atavist: I am a story enhancer. As a producer at The Atavist, my job is to take a story and enhance it using the overwhelming number of digital tools I have at my disposal. But just because it’s easy to throw an image, or a piece of video, or a map, or a musical snippet, or an interactive graphic at a story using the Atavist platform, doesn’t mean it will always improve the story. So I try to practice restraint when adding media to a story. Some results are better than others. But the biggest challenge I face is not related to producing a story, but explaining exactly what the finished product is.  A lot of people have been asking me*: What the heck is an “Enhanced E-Comic?” Many people are familiar with the term “enhanced e-book,” but our new nonfiction comics work Stowaway is one of the world’s first “enhanced e-comics.”  To be sure, comics have rapidly gone digital, and comics artists and fans were early adopters of the iPad platform, which has enabled some incredible works of comics art. A standout is Operation Ajax, a detailed history of the 1953 Iranian coup. It’s an elaborate production that exists somewhere between comics and animation in a space some people call “motion comics.” It comes with a haunting soundtrack and digital features too numerous to name, and you should definitely download it immediately. (It’s a story you can spend hours with—and it’s also a story that took a large staff several years to produce.) Our enhanced e-comic, Stowaway includes a soundtrack and behind-the-scenes extras that illuminate the boundaries between journalism and art. The music, sound effects, and video animations elevate it beyond a print comics reading experience and the audio extras allow you to engage with the creators of the piece in a way that would be impossible in a print medium. In this way, Stowaway creates an embedded dialogue about the subjectivity of the comics form (which you could argue is no more subjective than written journalism). So why not be a part of history, and experience the future of comics journalism? —Olivia Koski, Senior Producer *No one has asked me this, actually. But they should. Check out these fancy pants Atavist guys! So fun! Great work! 

cleofuckingpatra:

atavist:

I am a story enhancer. As a producer at The Atavist, my job is to take a story and enhance it using the overwhelming number of digital tools I have at my disposal. But just because it’s easy to throw an image, or a piece of video, or a map, or a musical snippet, or an interactive graphic at a story using the Atavist platform, doesn’t mean it will always improve the story. So I try to practice restraint when adding media to a story. Some results are better than others. But the biggest challenge I face is not related to producing a story, but explaining exactly what the finished product is. 

A lot of people have been asking me*:

What the heck is an “Enhanced E-Comic?”

Many people are familiar with the term “enhanced e-book,” but our new nonfiction comics work Stowaway is one of the world’s first “enhanced e-comics.” 

To be sure, comics have rapidly gone digital, and comics artists and fans were early adopters of the iPad platform, which has enabled some incredible works of comics art. A standout is Operation Ajax, a detailed history of the 1953 Iranian coup. It’s an elaborate production that exists somewhere between comics and animation in a space some people call “motion comics.” It comes with a haunting soundtrack and digital features too numerous to name, and you should definitely download it immediately. (It’s a story you can spend hours with—and it’s also a story that took a large staff several years to produce.)

Our enhanced e-comic, Stowaway includes a soundtrack and behind-the-scenes extras that illuminate the boundaries between journalism and art. The music, sound effects, and video animations elevate it beyond a print comics reading experience and the audio extras allow you to engage with the creators of the piece in a way that would be impossible in a print medium. In this way, Stowaway creates an embedded dialogue about the subjectivity of the comics form (which you could argue is no more subjective than written journalism).

So why not be a part of history, and experience the future of comics journalism?

—Olivia Koski, Senior Producer

*No one has asked me this, actually. But they should.

Check out these fancy pants Atavist guys! So fun! Great work! 

Reblogged from Partons Vite
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July 6th, 2012
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“We’re all journalists now,” goes the slogan. But it’s not true | Vancouver Sun

rwashburn:

A dose of journalistic pride has been called for after my weekend essay on the rise of so-called “citizen” journalism. The explosion of new digital voices is causing many Internet columnists, bloggers and advocates to assume: “We’re all journalists now.” But Ross Howard, a veteran Canadian journalist who teaches ethics in the journalism program at Vancouver’s Langara College, says authentic journalists should not buy into this emerging cliche.

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July 3rd, 2012
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Zoom How ProPublica Changed Investigative Reporting  “Steiger created ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom dedicated to the public interest and to deep dive reporting. He hired a bunch of young staffers (coached by seasoned editors and reporters) that could help him lift data journalism and computer-assisted reporting to the highest level.” -Frédéric Filloux

How ProPublica Changed Investigative Reporting 

“Steiger created ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom dedicated to the public interest and to deep dive reporting. He hired a bunch of young staffers (coached by seasoned editors and reporters) that could help him lift data journalism and computer-assisted reporting to the highest level.” -

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June 30th, 2012
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Digital Media and Breaking News Coverage

thereallukegale:

“As wildfires ravaged her state, Colorado College journalism lecturer Diane Alters emailed a list of fellow educators for suggestions on how to give her students breaking news reporting experience — and also keep them safe in the process. The query offered the perfect opportunity for what I like to think of as “small multimedia wins” in teaching.”

- Katy Culver, Poynter.

There are many links to helpful digital tools and tutorials on using them.

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June 20th, 2012
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futurejournalismproject:

From Editor to Curator: How to Generate Engaging Content

Jenny Rooney, editor of Forbes CMO Network, discusses her evolving role as an editor-curator in the digital age. She has previously covered interactive advertising for Advertising Age, marketing for Business 2.0, and been editor at Chief Executive magazine and Sales & Marketing Magazine. 

Great content, like a great product, is still the essential ingredient for audience-building. But how can we broaden the conversations around it when we have less control over who produces content? Here, Rooney explains her work at Forbes, which largely centers on finding and bringing novel, innovative, expert voices into the conversation and providing them with the publishing tools to engage an audience.

Bonus: She offers tips for recent grads interested in journalism.

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