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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:50 PM

Kudos to New York Times

A big shoutout goes to the New York Times for its recent decision to stop charging for access on part of its Web site content. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1190347200&en=31453a7a0148ac4b&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin
posted by KamalWallace | 0 Comments
Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:28 PM

The sound and the story

One exciting part of the growing technology in multimedia is finding new ways to tell stories. My friend Jaime Oppenheimer put together this video last week from the Kansas State Fair, composed entirely of natural sound. Besides
posted by RonSylvester | 1 Comments
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Friday, September 14, 2007 2:57 AM

Get in gear

I’m not a gearhead, although I sometimes play one in our newsroom. I’ve always thought it’s as important to learn how to do the best you can with whatever equipment is available than have the best, newest, shiniest, most expensive
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Monday, September 10, 2007 1:32 AM

Going to the videotape

A few weeks ago, the Sun-Herald of Biloxi, Miss. posted video on its Web site, showing the beating death of a jail inmate. The video shows, in graphic detail, Jessie Lee Williams being kicked, stunned with a Taser, hog-tied before being placed
posted by KamalWallace | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:05 PM

A million-dollar idea

To accompany a story about an increase in homes costing $1 million or more, The Des Moines Register created a cool multimedia project for the web. Be sure to watch the video flyover of the homes using Google Earth Pro. I can think of an array
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Monday, September 03, 2007 3:19 PM

What am I doing here? Part II

Call us the power quartet of techno reporting. Ron, Kamal, David and Rod. I'm Ron Sylvester, legal affairs reporter for The Wichita Eagle, and we hope this blog will make the transition to a web-based journalism world a little less daunting.
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Saturday, September 01, 2007 3:05 PM

What am I doing here?!?

Hi everyone in the journalistic world!!! Before I start posting things in this blog, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Kamal Wallace and I'm Senior Producer for WRAL.com, the Web site for WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C. I've been involved in New Media
posted by KamalWallace | 2 Comments