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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
video, which is among the reasons why we did not take more footage while in
Vietnam. Another problem I detected while in Vietnam was there was too much
reliance on the video to take notes. So, what happened is during an event or
interview, students were allowing the camera to do the very important job of
listening, and asking follow-up questions. Students went back to the hotel room
where they asked the interpreter to translate what they had already heard her
translate. So, a story that should have taken a few hours ended up taking a night.
Once I determined that this was happening, and not an effective use of time, I
simply asked the students to focus on written stories. This was a disappointment
for me because I had really hoped to tell most of our stories in a multimedia
platform.
3. Encourage students to write more frequently for a blog or their own blog. This
will help students feel ownership in the stories they produce as they receive
feedback from fellow writers and readers. My biggest challenge in the blogging
arena was convincing students that they needed to go beyond personal feelings to
incorporate investigation and research.
4. Encourage out-of-the-box thinking and creativity. Though we should never forget
the basic tenets of fairness and accuracy, we ought to encourage young journalists
to present stories beyond the hard-news lead, or even the magazine lead. Music.
Sound. Visuals. Photos. Video. People. There are so many elements that make for
a great story. And yet I feel that we get too caught up in the perception of what
journalism ought to be that we don’t allow ourselves to explore what a story can
be.
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