This past Friday, 2007.08.24, the staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer said goodbye to Lou Yi, a journalist from Beijing, China. She reports for Caijing Magazine, the second most read magazine publication in China, after Chinese Vogue. While in the U.S. on a 5 month fellowship, she spent time working with different desks at the paper, [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Transworld journalism
Posted in Media Theory, Online Newspapers, Web Video on 2007.08.26 - Sunday | Leave a Comment »
The Simpsons
Posted in Movies, Television on 2007.08.01 - Wednesday | Leave a Comment »
No, not a review of the movie–
A co-worker sent me this YouTube link:
A live-action Simpsons intro! I think it’s great! There was obviously a lot of compositing involved, and I wonder what it is actually from. It would be cool to do this with other series’ intros.
Hyper-Local
Posted in Online Newspapers on 2007.08.01 - Wednesday | Leave a Comment »
I was off shooting a fall fashion feature for The Inquirer last week when Rob Curley of The Washington Post stopped by the office for a reportedly 6 hour seminar on how he is saving newspapers. It is a real shame I missed it (I have ideas for my own take on a hyper-local news [...]
