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In praise of the Final Salute

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a knock at the door. Making documentaries

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The Ivory tower dispatch: defining multimedia journalism

This week in the ivory tower I’ve mostly been looking at multimedia. I’ve been building on the idea that, regardless of the approach you take (the fast/slow journalism split I created last week) , chunks of multimedia are going to be you

journalism

Does journalism need a fail whale?

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)![](https://i0.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/newsroom-500x375.jpg?resize=500%2C375 "newsroom") I thought about the title of this post as I was reading around how the recent update to twitter has caused a

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Findingtheframe.com: Multimedia review site

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)[![](https://i2.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Finding-The-Frame-500x291.jpg?resize=500%2C291 "Finding The Frame")](http://www.findingtheframe.com/) News reaches me via the newspaper video group about me about an excellent new project called

Independent

How the Broadsheets use video : The Indepenedent

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Over the last week I’ve been blogging about [how the UK broadsheet newspapers use video](http://www.andydickinson.net/2008/07/31/the-top-ten-tips-for-newsaper-video-from-the-uk-broadsheets/). One broadsheet was (not so) conspicuous by its absence – [The Independent](http://www.independent.co.

Slideshows from photo archive

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)Colin Mulvany has a great post (and nice examples) on his blog highlighting the benefits of [using your archive pictures for slideshows](http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/your-photo-archives-can-make-great-multimedia-content/). It came off the back of a comment commending

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Video training: Avoid the training rollercoaster

[Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)![the training rollercoaster](https://i1.wp.com/www.andydickinson.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/curve.jpg?w=525) Stress and time are reduced if training has a long tail Life seems very busy at the moment, busy good, but

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Final Salute wins awards

Final Salute – an special report from Denvers Rocky Mountain News has won several awards; rightly so. I showed the multimedia part to my students a while back as they got started on their own multimedia projects. I have rarely heard a class so quiet

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