Multimedia

No More Reading Wars! Getting Ahead of the Transition From Print to Digital Books

Michael Levine | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Nook, Multimedia, Digital Media, Coviewing, Children's Books, Children, Kindle, E-Books, E-Reader, Children's Bedtime Stories, Co-Reading, Ipad, Parents, Education News

When it comes to learning to read well, our country seems to be in a never-ending cycle of conflict and consternation. Enter the fray a new disruption: the transition from print to digital books.

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WATCH: Video Shows Life In Cuba

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Cuban Life, Multimedia, Video, Guillaume Le Barre, Hispanic Heritage, Slidepollajax, Cuban Culture, Incubation, Cuba, Latino Voices News

Guillaume Le Barre embarked on a 15 day journey in Cuba. He wanted to visit and document the island "before it changes." The result of his travels is ...

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On Seeing: Color!

Annie Buckley | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Multimedia, Art, Art in Los Angeles, Mary Younakof, Multimedia Art, Los Angeles, Annie Buckley, Art Exhibitions, Exposure, Arts News

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Eurozone Crisis by the Numbers

Hagit Bachrach | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Multimedia, Eurozone, Debt Crisis, Greece, Eurozone Crisis, Greece Debt Crisis, Greece Debt, Greek Debt Crisis, Video, World News

The upheaval in the Eurozone is dominating the G20 agenda, global news coverage, and the attention of uneasy investors. However, it is surprising that...

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World Population Hits 7 Billion

Hagit Bachrach | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Multimedia, World Population, International Development, 7 Billion, World News

As the world's population is projected to surpass 7 billion this week, there's some very interesting multimedia projects out there dedicated to breaking down the numbers and exploring the implications.

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Libraries And The Architecture Of Public Space

Carla Leitao | Posted 08.22.2011

This is the opening article of a series of articles (3), which aim to look at libraries and the landscapes they are a part of and help build. Though a...

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Private Equity Firm In Talks To Buy What's Left Of Borders

Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Chapter 11, Gores Group, Liberty Media Corp., Barnes & Noble Inc, Multimedia, Bankruptcy, Waldenbooks, Bookstores, Wall Street Journal, Borders Group Inc, Video, Business News

NEW YORK - Private equity firm Gores Group is in talks to buy more than half of bankrupt bookseller Borders Group Inc's remaining stores, the Wall...

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GEN Launched To Foster Mutualization and Cooperation Among World's Editors

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Newspapers, French, Apps, Knight Foundation, Broadcast, Journalist, Media, Paris, Multimedia, Broadband, Peru, Sylvie Kauffmann, Gallo Multimedia, World Editors Forum (WEF), Argentina, spot.us, Nigeria, David Cohn, Engineers, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Spanish, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper, Bertrand Pecquerie, Germany, Morocco, Tv Stations, Hyperlocal, Conference, El Pais, Digitization, Czech, France, Roman Roman, Martha Stone, Le Monde, Xavier Vidal-Folch, Cross-Media, Press Association, Developers, Webinar, Global Editors Network (GEN), Media News

A new worldwide organization is bringing together editors from different platforms, engineers and developers in news media in a bid to foster more sustainable professional journalism.

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Ontornet: Lebanese Campaign Against Snail-Paced Internet Service

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Twitter, iloubnan.info, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Facebook, Arabic, Multimedia, Broadband, Saad Hariri, Internet, Social Media Exchange, Telecommunications, World Wide Web, Lebanese, Ontornet, Adsl, Hibr, Technology News

Lebanese Internet users are mad as hell and won't take it anymore, so they've launched a campaign to gripe about the country's disgracefully sluggish access to the World Wide Web.

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WATCH: BLOG WATCH> Suki Chan: Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk On Daily Serving

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multimedia, Metropolis, Video, Hong Kong, Art Exhibits, Daily Serving, Artists, Suki Chan, Exhibitions, New Art Exchange, London, Blog Watch, Arts News

A city as large and as densely populated as London is sure to be brimming with such varied experiences. There are the stories of those who have been t...

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College Journalists Are Good at Consuming Multimedia but Bad at Making It. Why?

Michael Koretzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multimedia, College Journalism, Print Journalism, Media News

Earlier this year, I judged a prestigious national contest that chose the best college newspaper website in the country. It was a tough decision. Nearly all the entries were so damn boring it was hard to tell the difference.

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Dubai's Gulf News Embraces Convergence With Gusto

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Reporters and editors at Dubai's Gulf News are blazing a trail in multimedia that could serve as an example for Arab newspapers struggling with a journalistic identity crisis.

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This is Iraq (But Not the One You've Seen Before)

Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tiziano Project, Assyrian, Canon 5d Mark Ii, Hookah, Ferris Wheel, Call to Prayer, Teaching Journalism, Music, Canon 7d, Mosque, Sunset, Citadel, Journalism, Multimedia, Stop Motion, Erbil, Kurdish, Scooter, Kurdistan, Iraq, Impact News

Iraqi Kurdistan is full of the growing pains and remarkable opportunities of a society that is moving on from violence and redefining a national and regional identity. This is the story we are here to tell.

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Reimagining Books for the 21st Century

Daniel Lubetzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multimedia-Books, Multimedia, Publishing, Kindle, Books, Electronic Books, Digital Prints, Electroronic Readers, Ipad, Books News

It is quite conceivable that multimedia forms will reinvent how we do storytelling and how we provide information. Why assume that a linear story is best?

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Shoestring Journalism

Lee Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abc, Multimedia, Citizen Journalism, Mathilde Piard, Fox News, Nbc, Benjamin Drummond, Chris Tompkins, Journalism, Sara Joy Steele, Media News

When I was working at NBC and FOX News and ABC, we had helicopters, satellite uplinks, and video crews all over the world. Yet today, there are journalists doing much more with a whole lot less.

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