I’ve been a longtime subscriber now to Al’s Morning Meeting, a daily e-mail newsletter (or RSS feed) providing excellent story ideas by Poynter’s Al Tompkins. But aside from his thoroughly researched ideas, Al has recently begun providing a daily dose of multimedia, which makes the list even more worth subscribing to for all us Web heads.
Today, Al highlights a slideshow from the Boston Globe about a Marine who took his own life after being refused a hospital bed for post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s a great example of an audio slideshow and of how the audio truly drives these pieces.
Sign up, and see if you enjoy. I know I do!
And for more audio slideshows, Flash graphics and other regular multimedia goodness, check out Mindy McAdams’ Teaching Online Journalism, Angela Grant’s In The Circle, MultimediaShooter and Interactive Narratives (which hasn’t been updated in a while but has a great archive of this sort of stuff).
By angela February 15, 2007 - 10:08 am
Thanks for that shout out!
Also, the Al’s Morning Meeting looks promising…I subscribed to give it a try.
By Danny Sanchez February 15, 2007 - 11:14 am
Al Tompkins does a really nice job with it. I subscribed to it for the story ideas (and for the plain enjoyment of it) because he highlights a lot of stuff that doesn’t really make the big national news but is still quite interesting.